So we have a contradiction. If God can always know for certain exactly what this Mr P. fellow, the entirety of whom he has created, decision making process included, is going to do, then what Mr P. does is determined, albeit indirectly, by God's actions, so his choice can surely not be said to be truely free.
That is to say that if God has created everything which determines Mr P's actions in this scenario and knows what he will choose to do, then Mr P COULD NOT have chosen to 'not A'. Thus the freedom you speak of does not exist.
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"No one was behaving from very Buddhist motives. Then, thought Pigsy, he was hardly a Buddha, nor was he a monkey. Presently, he was a pig spirit changed into a little girl pretending to be a little boy to be offered to a water monster. It was all very simple to a pig spirit."
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