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In my opinion their understanding of the scripture is no more different then your typical Arminianist whether they be Catholic, Anabaptist, or your typical fundamentalist Christian, like the southern Baptist or Church of Christ. They come to the scripture with a set of presupposed believes, and when some one shows up at the door preaching those believes they fall into that crowd like they were walking down the street and fell into a man hole. Also when these students of the JW or any of the other many different Arminianist sects go off to their theological schools they already carry those presupposed beliefs with them to those schools, so they really don't learn too much other then how to polish their false errors of believes.

In my opinion many of them have good rational minds it is just that when they are out there looking for the truth they don't go any further then they have too to find the truth. The first set of theological believes that they come across, that sound good and rational ends up being their theological believes for most of the rest of their lives. My gut feeling why this happens is because they starved for attention and fellowship that they will never admit they could be wrong. My uncle is a former retired Seventh Day Adventist and even though he means well I don't think you could rationally convince him of some of his theological errors because in so doing you would cause him to see his whole world that he has wrapped himself around as being wrong and out of touch with reality, they would rather continue to tell themselves lies then to continue on in some other culture that they have condemned all their lives. I'm sure you can look at your past on FR and look at the former debates on Free Will and Total Depravity. Most Every one wants to believe in Free Will because it sounds good and rational, and fills there emotional need of feeling important in the scheme of things. Most freepers or nonfreeper would not change their mind on the issue even if you were to show them their error theologically and rationally because have set their mind to the believe that they are right and you are wrong and they will not listen to any rational discussion on the issue and they align them selves with like minded people and create a culture around them selves with like minded people. If they were to change their mind theologically they would have to abandon their whole culture which they have emotionally attached themselves to and aligned themselves with. For instance when some one leaves an Amish sect they will more likely never be able to come back unless they repent of their sins of being in love with the world, and even if they did that they would probably never be fully accepted back into that fold again. That fear in itself makes many of them not even want to consider leaving their faith and culture, they won't even question authority over the truth, because admitting the truth would be a big emotional and scary thing for them, and as you fully know here on FR and else where that if they were to become reformed they would cease having a pay check as a preacher of the Free Will believes, and they would have to start over in life.

I don't think you had to do any thing like that in your life, but I know in your past you did not come upon the reformed truth willingly, you had to be pulled out of the Free will thinking kicking and screaming all the way into the reform camp, eventually you went down the reform road and probably found it wasn't as bad as you thought it was. Well I've got to end this editing of my response and move along here, I've already spent more then a hour on this response, that is why I don't freep much any more or lets say I am slowing monitoring the amount I do freep here because I'm just to slow at it.