The battle over free will is a lot more fierce than it ought to be. Free will is a very obvious fact. If it did not exist, fighting over it would be both futile and inevitable. Futile because we aren't free to change our minds, but inevitable because we aren't free to cease the discussion. This just does not fit in with our rational world, or our rational minds.
One argument atheists use against free will is God's omniscience. God knows ahead of time what choices we will make, therefore, allegedly, we are not free to make them. Is this the case? To understand why it is not, consider that you do not actually need omniscience in order to know someone's free choices. Take, for example, me.
Personally, I am a very predictable person. I am so predictable that before the Covid lockdowns, I used to be able to walk into my favourite café, and I didn't even have to order. They knew what I wanted ahead of time. In fact, I am so predictable that the ipad on which they take orders has a button specifically designed for me. Rather than keying in each item individually, they just press the Brian button, I put my card on the machine, I sit down at my favourite spot (and even if that spot has already been taken, it is fairly easy to predict the alternative spot I will choose), and I pull out my phone to play some games while I wait. So, I'm quite a predictable man, at least when it comes to my breakfast habits. Does that make me a robot? Far from it. The café staff weren't forcing me to do anything. I was freely choosing this predictability.
The difference between the café and God is that unlike the staff, God is literally omniscient. He knows every possible outcome of every possible scenario. He knows what would happen if He never made Satan. He knows what would happen if He made Eve before Adam. He knows what would happen if the tree He forbade them to eat from was actually a lake He forbade them to swim in. Every conceivable variable, right down to the last atom, God knows. It is no small thing, therefore, that God knows the course you will freely take. Indeed, if you were to freely choose an alternate path, God would have known that instead.
At this moment in time, I am writing this article. God knew that ahead of time. But I could have freely chosen to do anything else. I could have chosen to work on a new article, to play a videogame, to take my dog out for another walk etc. Had I chosen any other action, God would have known that instead. So actually, it is my free choice that causes God's foreknowledge, not God's foreknowledge that causes my choice.
With this in mind, we can add this to the huge pile of weak arguments against free will, but even while it is there, it will continue to fester. Atheists all over the world will still use it, and continue to try to refute free will, but this is actually very telling. It tells us that atheists do not want to take responsibility for their own actions. They will blame other people, they will blame the devil, they will blame God Himself if they can, but this will go over for them about as well as it went over for Adam when he said to God "The woman whom you gave to be with me, she gave me of the tree..." (Genesis 3:12, emphasis mine). We are responsible for our actions, which means we are also responsible for our consequences.
Thankfully, while we are responsible for the choices we make, God is responsible for the choices He gives us. There are three of them. The first: Live a perfect life free of sin. Safe to say, none of us do that. The second: Sin, and receive death as due payment. But we don't want that, and neither does He. Thus, He gave us a third option. Repent of your sin, confess Jesus as Lord, and believe He rose from the dead. In doing this, we receive eternal life. God may know the choice you will make, but you are the one making that choice. Make sure He knows you'll make the right one.