Oh, sure, there's *some* real choice still available. Just as you have *some* real choice what to do if a lunatic threatens you at gunpoint and also offers you untold riches if you do what he says. But it's a pretty attenuated sort of freedom, it seems to me, which makes nonsense of the claim that All The Trouble In The World is there for the sake of our precious freedom. If a supremely powerful god really cared as much about our freedom as would be needed to make the "free will defence" work, then I think we'd be entitled to expect more freedom than we have.

(There are two separate and kinda-opposite freedom deficits at work here. On the one hand, if I know that some choice of mine means the difference between eternal bliss and eternal torment, then that greatly reduces my ability to make a meaningful choice, just as being told to do something at gunpoint does only infinitely more so. On the other hand, if that's true but I don't know it, then my choice might be nicely free but you don't get to claim that I freely chose damnation. That last claim isn't one that anyone's making a big deal of in this particular discussion, I think, but it's commonly made when people start asking whether it's reasonable to condemn people to hell for their very finite sins. )