How many of every single choice we make daily does God predestine?
I'll make my initial response brief and to the point. I do want to at least answer your initial question before further responding to your thread.
In answer to your question above, I believe that the Bible teaches that God works all things according to the counsel of His will (Eph 1:11). Acts 4:27-28 makes is clear that the crucifixion, along with the actions and choices of people, were predestined. They were real actions and choices; the people were responsible for them; the text makes clear that they were "predestined to take place." Further, since God upholds all things by the word of His power (Heb 1:3), since He holds all things together (Col 1:17), since He gives too all men life, and breath, and everything (Acts 17:25), then it follows that creation and human beings do not possess a self-sufficiency from God. Creation and people are always dependent upon God; therefore, there is no such thing as an autonomous will from God. Thus, it is wrong to define "choice," in any biblical sense, as being independent of God in the previous senses addressed.
In light of the previous verses, I am led to believe by God's revelation that every single choice is dependent upon God's providence and causal sustaining hand. Seeking to "get God off the hook for evil," by introducing human autonomy as the solution fails to understand basic biblical reality both in human choice-making and in the nature of the hook itself.
Reality is established by God; God is the measure of what is real. The fall of man in Genesis 3 sought to reverse that, and human beings first tried to autonomously (subjective) assess competing truth claims (God's word vs the serpent's word). Autonomously assessing is different than submissively assessing, which is what defined humanity pre-fall. Since the fall, mankind has sought to decide for himself what is most beneficial or detrimental to himself, rather than submissively walking by faith in God's revelation. This then leads to numerous examples of people living sinfully or autonomously. Thus, it is the natural, sinful bent of mankind to seek to live autonomously from God, which then leads people to try to justify their actions, which leads them to suppress the truth, exchange God for idols, and interpret the universe and themselves as autonomous.
Thus, in light of the God who works all things according to the counsel of His will, Who clearly predestined human action in the crucifixion, Who sustains all that is dependent upon Him, Who humanity sinfully seeks to live autonomously from, I must conclude that all our choices are predestined by Him in some sense.
I repeat, this is a rather brief answer to your opening question. I strongly encourage you to not resort to the straw men, which have unfortunately infected your assessments thus far. Computer code and puppets are not what anyone is arguing for, and it is both a straw man of our position and a reductionist fallacy. Please do not resort to a deliberate misrepresentation of truth in order to make your points. Again, no one is arguing for compute code, play buttons, or puppets; nor does our position reduce down to such; such nonsense is not what anyone is arguing for. Thanks.
