“The men of David said to him, ‘Behold, this is the day of which the LORD said to you, “Behold; I am about to give your enemy into your hand, and you shall do to him as it seems good to you.”’ Then David arose and cut off the edge of Saul’s robe secretly.”
God did not tell David what to do with Saul but left it in his hands to decide, and David chose mercy. However, if God had eternally decreed whatsoever comes to pass, then the idea of God giving David the choice about what to do with Saul would be misleading, which represents one of the more troubling aspects about Calvinism, as it drastically alters the plain reading of Scripture in contradictory fashion.682
It seems odd that God, according to Calvinism, would want for people to think that they are choosing something when yet it is actually a matter of God who has made all choices for them, both good and evil. How do Calvinists think that God would be benefitting from such a thing?
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682 See Genesis 2:19 for a similar discussion.
