marinamuffy,
I actually totally agree with you. As a believer of compatabilist free will, I see that God put the taste for Him in my heart. Before being moved by the Spirit, I had no such taste for him and would continue to refuse the general call.
However, any thought that I freely chose Him without Him first taking me out of the mass of the damned is, I feel, completely unbiblical. God is the prime mover in this reaction, I was moved upon. He is the shaper of the clay, the clay has no say in its shape or its use for honor or dishonor.
I did not nor could not choose to be a wine-cup nor a chamber-pot. He chose our use and how He was going to use us.
Here is, I believe, the essence of “free will”.
Before he is called (elected, saved, transformed, whatever you want to call it)man has the “Free Will” to sin or not sin. Those are his choices.
After his call, man has three choices: sin, not sin, or please God.
No one who is “Dead in Sin” can please God. Only those who are free from sin’s ravages are “Free” to please God.