Jus because God knows something will happen that does not mean that God causes those things to happen.
Granted. No one has said otherwise.
What we've said, repeatedly, is that infallible knowledge of a future choice necessitates that choice be made exactly as it is known. There is no alternative, because that would defeat the knowledge being infallible.
No alternative means the choice is not made freely, by necessity.
You're begging the question.
You're assuming that God's infallible foreknowledge of a supposedly free choice is compatible with that choice actually having genuine alternatives, when that's the very point under dispute.
And saying that God's knowledge doesn't cause the choice doesn't answer that problem. The issue is necessity, not causation.
The Potter changes His declared intentions in some cases when sinners change their ways, according to Jeremiah 18.
You can't have it both ways.
Either God infallibly knows all future free choices as already-settled truth values, OR there exist genuine alternatives that people can choose from and those choices cannot be known with 100% certainty until they are made.
Jeremiah 18 presents the latter.
And there's another problem with what you're suggesting.
If God already knew with infallible certainty that the sinners would repent, then He already knew with infallible certainty that He would not carry out the judgment He declared.
So in what sense did He ever genuinely intend to carry it out?
You seem to be saying that God genuinely intended one thing, while simultaneously knowing with absolute certainty that He would later do something else because of a choice He already knew would happen.
But an intention cannot be changed retroactively.
If God genuinely intended at one point to bring judgment, then that was His actual intention at that point.
If He already infallibly knew that the people would repent and that He would relent, then the supposed earlier intention to judge was never really His settled intention in the first place.
Jeremiah 18 makes much more sense if the alternatives are genuine:
> If they continue in evil, God intends judgment.
> If they repent, God will relent.
What God does depends upon what they actually choose.
That is a genuinely open future, not a prerecorded one.