1,000 Years of Outer Darkness

[Raptor]

Originally Posted by Ohio

Perhaps I misstated my question -- what happens when someone (like Ehrman) has a past regeneration, to the point where they are actively preaching the Gospel to others, and decides to study theology at a major university, and yet have your active faith stolen from you via so-called scholarly doubts concerning the text of the N.T.?

He is like a baby, who is born of Mr. Johnson. He is Mr. Johnson's baby, that's a fact, and that will never cease to be a fact, he is Johnson's son, it´s biological, it´s genetics, it's a law of life. The baby grows into a child and loves his dad, and says great things and proclaims good news about his dad to others at school.

Yet the child is still very young and is kidnapped by these scholarly gangsters, and grows up with them at a major university full of ideas and is so busy and deceived that he forgets about his dad and all dad´s great things.

Now he is a young boy and then a teenager, and one day he runs into a childhood friend that asks him, ...hey what happened to your great dad? And he answers, who? I don´t know what you are talking about. And then now he is an adult and one day runs into his dad on the street and though Johnson sees him and lunges to greet him, sobbing, full of love and expectation....his son does not recognize him and passes by to the other side.

Then one day Johnson dies. In his will he recognizes he has a son, but does not leave him an inheritance, because he never knew him.