I was disheartened to read your letter, David, not simply because of the reported erosion of your newly revitalized faith, but also because of the misunderstandings that your letter betrays. Though you report having read On Guard, Reasonable Faith, and books by other Christian authors, it’s evident to me that you have not mastered the content of those books or you would not be asking the questions that you are. I hope that you realize that this rebuke and what follows is offered in love.
First and foremost, you do not seem to grasp the fact that the fundamental truth of the Christian worldview does not require the general reliability, much less inerrancy, of the Gospels in the way you seem to think. If we have good grounds for thinking that God exists and that He has specially revealed Himself in Jesus by raising him from the dead in vindication of his radical personal claims to divine authority, then we have good grounds for thinking that the Christian worldview is true, and the rest is in-house discussion. Since you believe in both those truths, it is just illogical to conclude from uncertainty about “the stories or teachings of Jesus” that therefore the Christian God does not exist.
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