Most certainly true. I would also throw dogma in there.
Well there’s your problem. True science can never apply anything it has verified to be “true” to faith. It is by definition blind to the supernatural.
Truth can have many meanings. Which for the scientific might be something along the line of “established by repeated and verified observations of natural phenomena. Subject to change in the future if new data conflicts.” Biblical truth is what you determine to be true as supported by your interpretation of the Bible.
Scientists do not do any such thing. It is the religious who do that, AND scientists could care less, but certainly other religious people will object.
Incorrectly teaching the Bible can be an attack on the Bible. Heresy isn’t an attack on Christianity. It’s an incorrect understanding of Christianity that denies a primary tenet of the faith, such as Christ’s resurrection. There has always been room within orthodox Christianity for disagreement on secondary or tertiary issues, such as the literalness of Genesis 1-10. The problem with your framing of heresy is that you flatten everything into a primary issue. It’s all or nothing. Either YEC or heresy. It’s the falsest of false dichotomies.
Data is data. It’s not knowledge. Data is the evidence we gather from observation of the world around us.
Very clearly? You’re ignoring that Genesis 6 doesn’t say human sin has corrupted everything physical and spiritual. The Lord regretted making humanity. Animals, birds and creatures that move along the ground are a casualty, and neither they nor “the earth” are said to be corrupted by sin. You’re adding to the Scriptures and making it a “central theme” of salvation. Heresy?
The vast majority of Christians throughout history don’t agree with your reasoning. It’s not Christians agreeing with atheists. It’s Christians and atheists agreeing that black is black and white is white. If an atheist says, “White,” am I duty bound as a Christian to say, “Black”?
I wish you could step back from your rhetoric for a minute and hear how ridiculous it sounds to the rest of the Christian world, let alone the world outside your bubble. Alas, that’s never to be.
