Sam2 and yichusdik –
How does it answer the question if at the end of the day he doesn’t know which one we will actually choose? That’s like saying I know tomorrow’s winning numbers because I know all the possibilities. But I still lemayseh don’t know tomorrow’s numbers, so there’s something deficient in my knowledge.
I tend to assume the Rambam’s approach as frustrating as it can be.
We understand that God doesn’t have hands and feet, yet the Torah talks about him as if he does. The Rambam says that this is because the Torah talks in ways we can understand. But in truth God is not a being whose existence is on the same dimension as ours, it’s a different quality and not possible for us to comprehend. Like describing color to a blind person or music to a deaf person. Impossible. So we tell the person – it’s amazing, like ice cream! Does music or color have anything to do with ice cream? No. But we have no way of describing it, so we talk the person’s language and speak in terms of things they enjoy. Same with God having hands and feet.
But it isn’t just about hands and feet. It is about every single quality attributed to God. Love, anger, life and so on. Including the fact that he has knowledge. In truth, what we know as knowledge is not something which he has. His is qualitatively different then ours and in truth impossible for us to comprehend. Therefore the question cannot really get off the ground, because we don’t know the nature of his “knowledge.”
It can even be said that he doesn’t really know the future. Because the word “know” in that sentence has a definition, and whatever he has does not fall into that definition.