Another excerpt from one of the links in the previous post....

Bart D. Ehrman is a professor of religious studies and his book is titled “God’s Problem: How the Bible Fails to Answer Our Most Important Question – Why We Suffer.” A graduate of Princeton Theological Seminary, Ehrman trained to be a scholar of New Testament Studies and a minister. Born-again as a teenager, devoted to the scriptures (he memorized entire books of the New Testament), strenuously devout, he nevertheless lost his faith because, he reports, “I could no longer reconcile the claims of faith with the fact of life . . . I came to the point where I simply could not believe that there is a good and kindly disposed Ruler who is in charge.” “The problem of suffering,” he recalls, “became for me the problem of faith.”

I wasn't sure where Ehrman stood on the faith question. I am in the middle of his book Misquoting Jesus (for a while now), and listened to his Teaching Company lectures titled Lost Christianities, which is fucking amazing. It seemed so, that he had 'lost' his faith, but I got the impression he might be an anomaly, criticizing minor points but still 'faithful'. This sets it straight, if it is to be believed, of course.