Question

Sorry if I’m bothering you with yet another question about free choice and determinism. But I saw that you write that God does not know what we will choose (I think I saw this in Gersonides as well). In any case, my question is: why not say, like the deterministic view, that one can always claim the Torah was intended as a cause for us to be good, not for us to choose? And why God created us is also unclear anyway, because if it was in order to benefit us, why not place us directly in the Garden of Eden, and why create the “bread of shame”? Especially since for the sake of choice you are willing to sacrifice foreknowledge, so isn’t probability preferable? (By the way, this is what Rabbi Hasdai Crescas writes in his book Or Hashem.)
If you’ve devoted a column to this topic, I’d be happy if you could point me to it.