Re: Blind religion vs. obvious Truth.

Okay, interesting. I don't really know much about Calvinism except it is one of those names of people that broke away from the Catholic Church, but I will have to look into it more. I am interested in how people get to certain beliefs. When I was younger, I mainly attended Bible study groups, not church per-se, also read and study the Bible a lot on my own. One of the core beliefs in my heart is that God calls all men and women to Him, God loves all people even in our sinful nature and the only one thing we can actually do on this Earth is to either accept or reject the grace of God.

So can I ask, what led you to believe the way you do on this topic? Did you grow up or convert to a specific church that preached this type of doctrine and if so what church was that? Or did you just draw your own conclusions based on your interpretation of the Gospel and if this was the case, what made you come to your conclusions? Obviously there are scriptures that could be quoted on both sides of this debate so to just say this is what the Bible teaches doesn't quite do it for me.