Why would I think about a far fetched hypothetical designed to do nothing but read a New Testament I've already read hundreds of times?
*sigh* because you may have read and never grasped it...to even dismiss it as “a New Testament” is proof of that.
without the Spirit of God helping you, the text might as well be Braille. I know plenty of atheists that have read the Bible cover to cover (AND in their original languages!)
God told the prophet Isaiah:
“But this is the one to whom I will look:
he who is humble and contrite in spirit
and TREMBLES AT MY WORD.” ~ Isaiah 66:2
(So God will look to those who TREMBLE at his Word.)
“The grass withers, the flower fades, but the word of our God will stand forever.” (also from Isaiah)
(God’s WORD will never and can never be irrelevant even though everything else will.)
King David proclaimed “Your word is a lamp to my feet and a light for my path.” (Psalm 119:105)
(Does the WORD act as a lamp to YOUR feet?)
I’d say “the desert island” is relevant question because people like Paul and John and Augustine experienced Christ most in depth and wrote their most illuminating thoughts while in absolute isolation: no sacraments to partake in, no wafers and wine. Nada.
Do you think you could ever relate to the words of Paul when he said:
“Yes, everything else is worthless when compared with the infinite value of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord. For his sake I have discarded everything else, counting it all as garbage, so that I could gain Christ and become one with him. I no longer count on my own righteousness through obeying the law; rather, I become righteous through faith in Christ. For God’s way of making us right with himself depends on faith. I want to know Christ and experience the mighty power that raised him from the dead.!” ~Phillippians 3: 8-11
Do you KNOW Christ?