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"Any aspect that is not mechanical, reproducible and predictable will have to be ignored by the scientific inquiry." That is not the definition of scientific i
by jorangreef 10y ago
"Any aspect that is not mechanical, reproducible and predictable will have to be ignored by the scientific inquiry."
That is not the definition of scientific inquiry, or you would be ruling out most of the sciences.
As for Hebrews 11, that chapter does in fact give examples of authentic biblical faith, as opposed to "blind faith". In other words, people (everyone from patriarchs and prophets to prostitutes) acting on the basis of what God said and did in history (often their own recent past). As a chapter by itself, Hebrews 11 is enough to show that faith is always on the basis of the historical method, not on the basis of wishful thinking. And Hebrews is not the only book in the Bible. The Bible has much to say that defines authentic faith.
To come back to the resurrection, if I understand you correctly, then you are saying that the fact of the resurrection proves its possibility (incredulous as it is) and nothing more. In other words, God himself would still have to speak to give meaning to the event of the resurrection? That is the Bible's claim. You can examine it should you choose to, on the basis of the historical method according to disciplines such as textual criticism etc. which are not opposed to scientific inquiry.
And this is all at least part of the reason why some people who took the Bible seriously, started taking the world around them seriously. That at least, is the history for founding fathers of science such as Johannes Kepler (a protégé of Melanchthon, himself a protégé of Luther).
What is your name? I am sure you would want to take science seriously. I wonder if you have ever taken the Bible as seriously, like people like Luther did? With a fresh pair of spectacles?