Your point then is that faithfulness reinforces your faith (validates it). Would you agree that there are times when there is no faithfulness? E.g. a prayer is not answered or a terrible thing happens in spite of your hopes? Does your faith “bend toward science”? To the 2 concepts, Faith and Science, Klax has had good thoughts as well. So if we stipulate the 2 sides (there are many different ways to characterize them for sure), then when they are incompatible, one must bend to the other or else we cannot believe in them both. So… let’s be more specific about issues relating to Christianity, rather than lumping them all together. I will offer my opinions regarding whether or not each (of my arbitrary) facet is bent toward the other or not based on my hunches about it being considered fact/science by >90% of Christians:
Belief in God? Not bent…He is a necessary entity to have begun this universe.
The virgin birth? possibly bent, but perhaps the hand of God
The resurrection? likely bent, but possibly a true miracle. It could have been a figurative conclusion to an unexplained empty tomb
Power of Prayer? Bent for sure. Everything He created at the beginning has allowed such a perfect evolution (due to omnipotence, omniscience and omnibenevolence, that there has been no need for His intervention or modifications).
Belief in God is both necessary and sufficient for salvation? Bent…too much room for individual opinions.
There is a heaven? Bent
There is a hell? Bent
If there is a hell, is there eternal hell-fire and damnation and suffering? Bent
The Bible is inerrant? Bent
The Bible is the inspired word of God? Probably bent but not so sure.
Adam and Eve existed? Bent
Miracles were performed by Christ? I am truly torn on this one. If miracles are defined as events that are incompatible with physics, then it is bent.
Created "in his image"? Clearly bent, because we cannot agree on what this even means.
Good works are important, even though Grace does not require it? The most bent of them all. Good works are so valuable, the goodness of people so necessary, that I cannot imagine ignoring them. But the Grace of God clearly does not demand it.
Without the Crucifixion and Resurrection, we could not be saved? Absolutely bent. God could have taken this action by any number of arbitrary means. And besides, if it was necessary, what about the ~500M who died before Christ? Are they doomed?
So as I list these out specifically and individually, it seems that I (mostly) agree that (almost) all of Christianity is bent. A few beliefs are not.