If, as the Arminian thinks, “foreknowledge” and “election” are God looking down through the corridors of time, seeing who will choose Him, and then choosing them based on their choice of Him, then this is still to say that the choice is predetermined. God in that scenario is seeing a choice that will not alter and is therefore in some sense and by somebody predetermined. Therefore there is no free will in the Arminian sense. If then the choice is unalterable and inevitable, then it must be made by an unalterable or unchangeable being, whether God or some other. If it is by some other, then one winds up in some variation of pantheism. If by God, then one simply ends up back at Calvinistic and Biblical predestination.
To then suggest, as some will, that the variation comes with God standing outside of created time, is still a false lead. God is still seeing a choice that will be made only one way, and is therefore predetermined.
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