https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Determinism vs.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_will Is essentially what you're referring to.
The short answer: no, you were not "programmed" by God's hand, you were "programmed" by your parents, who were programmed by their parents, and so forth. You have free will, but very little of it, if any at all, before self-actualization, after which you understand what your programming was and how you can change it and thus experience freedom (of life-altering decision; nobody can experience freedom from the laws of science, for example.) Those who have yet to do this often believe life is a straight line that they can hardly deviate from, which is true from their perspective but false to the post-philosophy individual.
The longer you look, the more you'll realize, God plays less and less of a role in our lives, until you reach a breaking point where you understand that God played no role anywhere; God is only a placeholder until we discover what's really behind the world's phenomena. One such discovery--the crucial role of the parents in shaping the world--has yet to hit critical mass understanding, and so individuals are often in-the-dark about why they are the way they are; thus, they attribute this to a divine plan: "God made me this way and determined my life to be this way and to deviate makes me uncomfortable." The uncomfortable bit is usually the fear of your parents in childhood, the fear of deviating from their needs and desires in lieu of your own. To have free will, then, is primarily to choose whose needs and desires you will accommodate and to act accordingly, whether your own or someone else. In an environment without "freedoms", e.g. a dictatorship, individuals are programmed to cater to the state's desires; to practice free will in this situation--to decide to cater to your own needs and desires rather than to another, or even to cater to another competing state--is punishable. This fear of punishment by the state is the same base fear one experiences as a child in fear of their parents; it comes as little wonder why people in general respond so positively to law (of course, there are many anarchists here who do not, for obv. reasons now that this knowledge is presented.)