Libertarian freedom requires that the agent, given identical prior conditions, could have done otherwise—a condition Aquinas's God undermines by infallibly actualizing one world-history through providence.

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Aquinas: Thomas Aquinas was a medieval Italian priest and philosopher (1225-1274) who became one of the most influential thinkers in Western history. He attempted to show that Christian faith and human reason are compatible, arguing that we can use logic and observation to understand God and the natural world. His ideas deeply shaped Catholic theology and continue to influence how religious and secular institutions think about ethics, knowledge, and the relationship between science and belief.
Could have done otherwise(as a key requirement for free will): The idea that in a given situation, you had the real ability to choose a different action than the one you actually chose.
God(Classical theism; used to fix the referent of 'G' in the Bayesian formulation): An eternal, personal being of maximal power, knowledge, and goodness who created the universe
Identical prior conditions(used to test whether freedom is real): Everything that happened or existed before a moment in time being exactly the same, without any difference.

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