divine foreknowledge and free will

Considering how Boethius reconciles divine foreknowledge and free will has really helped me. There are people all the time that doubt God and his existence because they do not understand how humans are free to choose their own path but at the same time God is able to know exactly what was going to happen. Before reading Boethius, I just knew that this was how it was, but I didn’t really attempt to understand why. After reading Boethius, this is how he reconciles the two: God’s insight of time is not how we as humans see time. God created time, and He sees everything, past, present, and future, happening at once. God’s foreknowledge of events does not cause the event. Everything that God foreknows will happen, but it will proceed from free will. Anyone can change direction by his or her own free will, but just as one cannot escape “the glance of a present eye,” one also cannot escape divine foreknowledge. God will know the change in one’s direction, but he did not cause it. If God were the cause of men’s’ actions, then punishments and rewards would be administered in vain. How could God punish a dishonest man and reward an honest man if God were the one to cause the men’s actions. He could not. Therefore, man is free to will what he chooses without any causation from God but with God foreknowing that the action would come to pass.