I really love the man made doctrines that rob God of His glory.
Does God save men against their will?
By creating giving life to a new will.... yes.
He gives them a new desire as he works in them to both will and do His good pleasure.A new source of faith that comes from hearing His voice by which they
can believe.
Like he informed the disciples when they asked what work could work do to please God .He does all the work or he does none. If he has begun the good work he will finish it to the end.
Joh 6:29 Jesus answered and said unto them,
This is the work of God, that ye believe on him whom he hath sent.
Formally the only source of faith possible to see the supernatural spirit world which the scriptures call "no faith" were the imaginations of their own heart. It was not a law of faith as we have as Christians. But was the philosophies of men making their best guesses and playing who is the greatest. .
Free will to a new creature takes us back to the garden to eat the spiritual food the disciples knew not of... to do the will of the Creator . God did not desire they learn by experience what it meant "you shall surely die" when they did the good pleasure of the father of lies..they did.
So then its not against their will but with their will in accordance with His whose name is Emanauel. By and through His same spirit of faith we believe and therefore speak.
2Corinthians 4:13 We having the same spirit of faith, according as it is written, I believed, and therefore have I spoken; we also believe, and therefore speak;
He is of one mind and always does whatsoever his soul pleases.
Does the Calvinist ever come under conviction about his sin?
If God is working in any man to both will and do His good purpose he will turn the person when the Spirit of Christ that dwells in him reminds of him of the things he has taught us. In that way no man is self taught
I would think many people to include dead Calvin have been taught the kind of things that can
turn a person to look outside of their own selves.
If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us.If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.If we say that we have not sinned, we make him a liar, and his word is not in us. 1Jo 1:8
If he does not do the first work first turning a person there will be no repentance needed to comfort oneself. As always he does the first work or no man will come when they are heavenly burdened.
Given what Calvinism teaches today even John Calvin would reject it.
So then its each person’s rendition of what they think he taught? It would seem you are placing yourself in his place?
The hardest people to win to Christ are the ones who are most religious.
Luke 18:9 ¶ And he spake this parable unto certain which trusted in themselves that they were righteous, and despised others:
10 Two men went up into the temple to pray; the one a Pharisee, and the other a publican.
11 The Pharisee stood and prayed thus with himself, God, I thank thee, that I am not as other men are, extortioners, unjust, adulterers, or even as this publican.
12 I fast twice in the week, I give tithes of all that I possess.
13 And the publican, standing afar off, would not lift up so much as his eyes unto heaven, but smote upon his breast, saying, God be merciful to me a sinner.
14 I tell you, this man went down to his house justified rather than the other: for every one that exalteth himself shall be abased; and he that humbleth himself shall be exalted.
One was a Calvinist the other was a whosoever will.
Religion is simply a belief system .Satan is very religious
Scripture informs us their must by heresies as persons opinions given among us. It is God who makes us differ from one another. As in what do we have that we have not been freely given, and if we have why would we boast as if we have not?
Its not flesh and blood that we do wrestle against as if we were to now each other after the flesh .
We all have a private interpretation of what we think he is teaching us in His interpretation the Bible . Like fingerprints one differs from another. It’s His approval we are to seek after.
Looking at the parable you offered. Did not Calvin oppose the Catholic Pharisees as the one that does the will of God? Was the Pope justified as the... whosoever will?