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Well one way or another, there has to have always been something. Whether there's God or matter or "thoughts" or whatever you like, like you said there can't be something from nothing. Something has to always have been there, and we'll never understand it.
As for a higher power knowing the future, I don't think it's all that difficult to imagine an omnipotent being choosing to loosen control for creation, and then looking to see what happened. You can have all the power and control in the world to play everything imaginable on guitar, but that doesn't mean you can no longer play random noise. You'll be in control, but choosing not to fully use it.
However, I think stuff like that is bad for basing worldviews on. If you say "I don't like the idea of having no choice," it's kind of counter-productive. It doesn't really matter if we like something with this kind of stuff. It's not art. We're already here. Our job is to discover whether there's a God or not, whether we have free will or not, etc. - not to decide which we would prefer.
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