But I need something deeper, something more fulfilling. So he despises his parents and their religion and turns to his peers and to the world for guidance. His Dad has committed a great injustice against him. It would have been better for Dad to have a millstone hung around his neck and be cast into the bottom of the sea. And it would have been better for Jerry if he never were born.
Children are innocent.
Jesus said that of such is the kingdom of God, and He invites us to become as little children. When God calls, this misguided soul refuses to answer because he thinks he has already answered. One of the greatest injustices we can commit against our child is to make him believe he is lost before he is, and saved when he is not.