Maybe the jail time, the fraud, the family abandonment made him find the Lord, but he still refused to support his family after he got into the religion business.
Scofield claimed to have found the Lord in 1879. In 1880 he forged a mortgage document, swindled his former mother-in-law out of $1,300 dollars and despite his larcenous gains, failed to provide for the wife and children he abandoned.
Yet millions of Americans accept his spurious and backward Bible commentary as if it were part of God's Word itself.