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As the author of a story, I have the power to write in the preface, before the story is written at all, "Peter has free will and in chapter 4, he will freely choose to go left."
It would be ridiculous to say that Peter isn't free, and that I am wrong about my story. He is free in the story, just as he has certain other characteristics in the story. Of course, he is not free in real life, but that is just because he does not exist in real life, but only in the story, where he is also free.
The same thing would apply to a situation where you are created free by an omnipotent being. In that being's world, you do not have free will, but that is just because you do not exist at all in that being's world. In your own world, you both exist and have free will. This is what was meant by the traditional theology that maintained that God is not one being among other beings, but a being above all beings. The creator and the created things exist in very different realms of existence, like an author and the story world created by the author.
Since I have no problems being ridiculous, I will say that Peter does not have free will even if you claim so in your story.
Take at a puppeteer with his marionettes on a stage: when he says "Do not look at me, look at the puppets, they are free to do whatever they want!" are you going to believe him?
Being a bit more explicit, the problem, as TheOtherDave noted, is inconsistency. Saying "Peter will freely choose to go left" is self-contradictory.
And the issue with separating things into "worlds" -- e.g. the world of the Creator and the world of the created -- is that it's not useful or illuminating. I can do the same thing, too -- I can make an abacus and use it to calculate. Can I declare that my abacus has "free will" on its own, lower, plane of existence?