I think that religions want to express trade off between our capacity for freedom and the impulse of the universe in its actual state, including all the variables that fall outside our consciousness.
As we cannot take in account all the variables that influence each decission, how can we be really free?
But, on the other hand, we cannot say for sure that our decitions are totally determined by these variables. Is this the place for Chaos or Free Will?
I find this tradeoff very interesting and constantly find myself wondering this mystery.