A marvellous limitation about God

The great Dutch philosopher Spinoza extends a point about God. God cannot, he says, "...be said…to act from freedom of the will. In which case he cannot think or feel that he does so, because he is after all omniscient.

The paradox of free will contends that omniscience and free will are incompatible, and that any conception of God that incorporates both properties is therefore inherently contradictory.

As for us and free will:

Does Omniscience Contradict Free Will?

Hello,
Christian doctrine holds that God is all knowing (1 John 3:20), and humans have free will (Deuteronomy 30:19 is my favorite example). however, at my favorite apologetics debate board, I have seen skeptics raise an objection to these points several times. the basic logic behind their arguments is this:

1. A being with free will, given two options A and B, can freely choose between A and B.
2. God is omniscient (all-knowing).
3. God knows I will choose A.
4. God cannot be wrong, since an omniscient being cannot have false knowledge.
5. From 3 and 4, I will choose A and cannot choose B.
6. From 1 and 5, omniscience and free will cannot co-exist

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