For free will to exist, there needs to be a set of unaltered circumstances. For God to influence current day decisions, does he need to alter the same circumstances, which are necessary to be unaltered for free will to exist?
God influencing conditions from the point of time after initial development of free will and on, without reducing free will seems complicated. If it is understood that; intentionally influencing anyone's decision to any degree, is a reduction of their free will, then it seems difficult to comprehend how God could influence any circumstances at all without reducing someone or another’s free will. Even if someones will is for God to influence their decisions, this may permit the individual to be influenced, but in order to make that influence, God would need to alter circumstances in their past, which are relevant and influential to that decision. This sounds plausible, but considering it is likely that nearly all circumstances which have occurred in someone's life -and therein may play an influential role-, have been relative to someone else's decision, this means God would have to intentionally influence others decisions. If those others also willed God to influence them, there would be no problem, but if their will is not for God to influence them, then it would be a reduction of their free will, if God was to influence them.
So there may be 2 possibilities for God to influence circumstances; 1 would be for God to reduce some people's free will, in order to fulfill his own, in the case where it also aligns with someone else’s will to allow God to alter their will. So, if it is someone’s will for God to influence their decision (or alter exterior conditions, regardless of their decisions), but in order to do so, God must reduce someone’s -or many others- free will, perhaps God does so, relative to the degree of will of the individual who is willing Gods influence. God could potentially implement the alterations regardless of the degree of free will being reduced by others, or perhaps comparatively of the degree of free will being reduced, to will for God to implement alterations of his will.
A 2nd possibility for method of which God alters circumstances in order to influence free will -in the scenario where the individual's will is for God to influence their will-, could be to allow complete free will of all, yet use the decisions which people do make on their own, in the right circumstantial time placement. In the contrary scenario, the mentioned free decisions would occur randomly, and by chance would often not inflict the relevant influence on an alternate individual's decision. But in this theoretical scenario, God would take any free decision (including potentially those non-necessarily-willing) which is effectively influential for the needed circumstance, and cause that free decision to occur in the effectively applicable correct place and time.
It could almost be like cutting and pasting relevant decisions, to position them in an effective placement, like a jigsaw puzzle. In order for God to alter the setting of free decisions, he would need to alter past circumstances, just as he would need to, in order to influence decisions of someone willing for God to do so. The method of implementation would be the same in both situations; of influencing decisions of the willing, and altering the setting and effect of a non-willing decision. The relevance would be that utilizing the non-willing decisions (without reducing free will) would allow a significant increase in potentially useful puzzle pieces.
It seems in any case of God influencing willing decisions or adjusting the setting of circumstances, God needs to alter past circumstances. But for a lot of scenarios of influenced decisions, it can require minimal alteration of past circumstances. Perhaps the ratio of quantity of circumstances required for influence of decisions, to quantity of unaltered circumstances for allowance of free will, is significant and relevant to the answer. As theorised, it takes minimal altered circumstances to influence a lot of willfully influenced decisions, so what quantity of unaltered circumstances are required to allow free will? Perhaps only alteration of circumstances which are relevant to influencing the decision in question, are required to be unaltered. This would mean just as minimal of circumstances as influence a decisions, are required to be unaltered. All other circumstances throughout existence and time, which dont influence any decisions, could be altered.
With my initial question of, influential circumstances needing to be the same as unaltered circumstance for free will to be present, those circumstances would need to be the same -except when your will is for the circumstances to be altered. As long as the circumstances were initially unaltered to present free will, the free will could be implemented to then allow alteration of those same initial circumstances.
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