ramifications of omnipotence for God

I've been thinking about this lately. If God is omnipotent, he can do anything and make anybody or anything do whatever he wishes. But God chose to give man free will and therefore limited himself in his power. He can no longer interfere with human affairs. If he were to do so, man would no longer have free will. Therefore God is not omnipotent - or if he is, we don't have free will.

I think you misunderstood me. I'm saying that by giving man free will, God has decided to limit his power. Even if he wanted to interfere with man's affairs, he couldn't, because the second he does, man doesn't have free will. He's not omnipotent anymore if man has free will.I think where this line of reasoning might fail is one could say God chose to give man free will. He still has the ability to intervene, he just chooses not to. I don't know, it was just random musing on my part.

I don't see why. There's lots of things humans can't do. We can't fly, breathe underwater, travel through time, et alia. Sure, we might have free will, but there are limits. If God didn't want us sinning, he could have made us without the capability of sin. There would still be lots of other things to do and to choose to do, just not sin. We would still have free will, just one more constraint on what we as humans can physically accomplish.