Reading through your convo with Matthew. Including the replies after here. I am not here to convince you of anything. I am not, especially because I do not subscribe to any religion. I do very much believe in "God." I am spiritual and that does not mean I'm all new-age, which has become its own disorganized religion. "Religion cannot stand Spirituality. It cannot abide it. For Spirituality may bring you to a different conclusion than a particular religion — and this no known religion can tolerate. Religion encourages you to explore the thoughts of others and accept them as your own. Spirituality invites you to toss away the thoughts of others and come up with your own."― Neale Donald Walsch, The Complete Conversations with God

Do I believe God is omniscient? No. That eliminates free will, which I firmly believe exists. There are some that argue/believe that the existence of free will does not preclude omnisicience because they believe in infinite simultaneous realities and that God is aware of every outcome. I cannot say that they are wrong--simply that I focus on the reality of which I am conscious.

So that leads me into predetermined plans. I believe there are plans but I call them improv scripts because as I said, I believe in free will. I believe our souls in conjunction with many other souls write these scripts and that "God" signs off on them or suggests changes before doing so.

The only aspects of every life that I firmly believe are predetermined for everyone are our dates of incarnation and dates of death. I believe how we live and how we die are very much the product of our own free will and causation from the free will of others as well.

Yes I believe that God is omnipresent. There are many layers to that, including but not limited to there is a piece of God in every one of us.

My conception of God is not one taught by any religion of which I am aware. https://medium.com/know-thyself-heal-thyself/how-do-you-define-god-9898492eae9

As you saluted above,

Cheers

Peace