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John Henry -- You're still making a couple of mistakes in your post. The only difference between God's knowledge and ours is a matter of degree. God knows everything, and we only know some things; moreover, God always knows that he knows something, while we often can be wrong about whether or not we know something. But knowledge just means "justified true belief". So the distinction you make between God's knowledge and ours is just inconsistent. You say that if you are truly free to choose to do A or B, there is a non-zero probability that you will do either. But this just confuses randomness with freedom. From the point of view of our limited knowledge, it makes sense to assign odds to future events. But in point of fact, free actions are fully determined. What makes them free is that they are determined by us.
You go on to write that God is responsible for all of the factors affecting my decision. But that's simply false. If there is free will, WE are responsible to some extent for our enviroment and nature.
Livia Regina wonders why God 'manipulates' us into doing evil things. Well, the best answer is that I don't know. I don't know if there was a feasible world in which God creates rational creatures who do not sin. If there wasn't such a world, then the answer is easy. If there was, perhaps there were other reasons why he created this world instead. Perhaps the only feasible world in which rational creatures do not sin is one in which there are only one such creature, and God wanted more than that. I don't know.
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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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