The Highway Forums General Discussion Theology Discussion Forum What lead you to accept the Doctrines of Grace?

Reading Scripture over and over... and comparing it to what I heard being preached and taught everywhere else. I finally was recommended to reading the Puritans and Jonathan Edwards. After reading much of those giants of the faith, my assurance that the Doctrines of Grace (a term I was not familiar with at the time) were in controvertibly the teaching of God's inspired and infallible written Word. One of the final influences was reading through Phillip Schaff's Creeds of Christendom. I was amazed at the uniformity of the great confessions and catechisms of all the major denominations despite their minor differences, e.g., church polity and baptism. The Protestant Reformation was God's work in freeing men from the false religions and false teachers which had dominated the majority of the world for many centuries, albeit there were pockets of those who escaped that tyranny. The Gospel flourished thereafter although during the 1800's there was a great falling away of the Church (visible) and semi-Pelagianism gained a secure foothold along with the various sects and cults coming into being. Those marvelous Doctrines of Grace are now being held by a small minority of professing Christians and are either unknown or hated by the overwhelming majority of professing believers who are on the road to perdition with Bibles in their hands being carried along by a false assurance of their 'free-will' decision for Jesus.