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Mandal, what you are saying is that God's omnipotence contradicts human free will, because the universe is deterministic, and God set up the starting parameters, right? Correct me if you mean something else.
Well, what I'm trying to say is two-fold. First, if the universe is deterministic through and through, then non-Theists have as much of a problem with free will as Theists; whether or not the starting parameters are just brute facts or were created by God, free will is going to be difficult to defend. Second, I simply reject your picture of the universe as being through and through determined. I believe we have free will (and for non-religious reasons at that), and so we can have a sort of sui generis causality that's not determined by the previous state of the universe. That is, for agent A's free choice between p and ~p at time t, the state of affairs S of the universe at time t-1 does not determine A's choice. There are possible worlds where A chooses p and possible worlds where A chooses ~p, where S obtains at t-1 in all these worlds.
To sum up, your problem as I understand is either a problem regardless of whether or not your're a Christian or not a problem at all.
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"Die Deutschen meinen, daß die Kraft sich in Härte und Grausamkeit offenbaren müsse, sie unterwerfen sich dann gerne und mit Bewunderung:[...]. Daß es Kraft giebt in der Milde und Stille, das glauben sie nicht leicht."
"The Germans believe that power must reveal itself in hardness and cruelty and then submit themselves gladly and with admiration[...]. They do not believe readily that there is power in meekness and calm."
-- Friedrich Nietzsche
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