If we have no free will, God already knows who is going to heaven and hell. So why did God bother with any of earthly creation?

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God allows for Man to have a certain free will that is, obviously, bound to the confines of Creation and their sinful nature.

God's people, the elect, have less free will because God intervenes, regenerating them, in order to render His gospel irresistible.

And also, when God wishes to change the course of history for all, as was the case with the flood, who then can oppose Him?

God's creatures have free will, but we are still God's creatures. We have "sovereignty" with air quotes and a little s. God is Sovereign.

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We don't have zero free will.

Autonomy is a sliding scale. We are image bearers of god. We have more autonomy than all of the other beings in Crestion (the animal kingdom). And yet we are mortal beings and have a certain nature that drives us to sin. We are free to sin (rebel from God) in any way that we like.

Compared to God, no we don't have free will, obviously. But we do have the autonomy to choose and act and we are real conscious beings that God created.