And how do we know this? Because you believe it. And how do you go about demonstrating to us that this God does in fact exists? Well, you don’t.
Let alone offer us a substantive argument regarding how God and determinism function for all practical purposes in the lives that we live.
You take your spiritual leap of faith to a frame of mind that comforts and consoles you. This thread merely speculates on whether or not nature compelled you to do so. Thus bringing into focus the relationship between God, determinism, nature, the human brain, the human mind and “I”.
Still, there’s what you believe about this relationship “in your head”. And, if we do have some measure of autonomy, the sophistication of your argument in regard to that which is of most interest to me: human interactions given the existential interaction of identity, value judgments and political power.
Care to go there? If so, and we do have some measure of free will, you choose the context.