Hi David,

Thanks for your response. It may surprise you that I also consider myself to be a Christian, although not one that many other Christians, including yourself, would recognise as such.

Before I take up your suggestion about the Youtube video, I would want you to reassure me that Keller is some kind of independent, objective voice, and not starting from the position of being a committed Christian.

On your next point, I agree with you that it does not ultimately matter who wrote John’s Gospel, and that we can concentrate on the actual content. If, however, the prologue were a later addition by someone else, how would we know that the author of the rest of it agreed?

It’s also possible that your suggestion that the author’s identification of the Logos with Jesus is consistent with quantum mechanics may be something of a leap of faith. It would certainly require some further elucidation.

I agree with you that science can’t prove Christianity which, unusually for a religion, as you say, is heavily dependent on whether certain events happened historically. A few months ago I was engaged in a debate with Gerald R. Baron on Medium about the resurrection. You might be interested in that, and I can dig out the relevant links if you like.

On what you say about the personal God, things can be required of us, without that coming directly from the ultimate source. I think that monotheism has led too many people to believe that any sense of destiny, fate, vocation, any inner, apparently spiritual voice inside their heads must be that of God. I would more readily attribute such things to what is known as the Higher Self, spirit guides, guardian angels, and so on.

Best wishes

Graham