SecularFrummy-
It goes like this.
The generation of Moshe experienced the greatest miracles, like splitting of the red sea.
But scientists today have an explanation even for that. They say it is possible that every 2448 years an extremely forceful gale occurs at an angle to split the sea.
Moses Mendelssohn the Ugly wanted to say that Moshe Rabbeinu used his staff to dissolve the water of the Red Sea.
(His staff was made from sulfur which separates hydrogen and oxygen in h2o)
Miracles like Elijah at Mt. Carmel occurred when the there was an evil inclination for idolatry.
We do not have that evil in us anymore.
iluvbeingjewish- “we hardly have any bechira at all if you think about it.who well marry is annonced 40 days b4 were born…”
Ah, the age old question.
The answer is that your question is flawed. You are asking about the prediction of G-d vs. choice of Man, as if they are two sides to the same coin. But they are not.
Man’s ‘present’ is not only G-d’s ‘present’, it is also G-d’s future and past too.
You cannot attribute the G-dly quality of omnipresence to man.