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Knowing something will happen does not cause that thing to happen. Look at the soothsayer in Shakespeare's Julius Caesar. The soothsayer knew that Caesar was going to be killed and warned Caesar to beware. Caesar did not beware and was killed. Did the soothsayer somehow cause Caesar to die? No. He simply knew it would happen. Just because God knows we're going to do something doesn't mean that he is causing it and doesn't mean that he hasn't provided other options. All it means is that we made a choice.
The same holds true for God's free will, but in a much more complicated way. God has many options for what he could do, but he has made his choice and he will hold true to that. Obviously the fact that God can see himself or a person choosing to do something means that that person has chosen to do something, even if the time for that event hasn't come yet.
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