Yep. But seeing is ultimately something which happens in the mind.
Paul explains that the spiritual body is more powerful. Thus it can do more not less. And yet it is not a part of space-time structure subject to the laws of nature, by which all things are perishable. So it possible they could have seen Him by means of photons but perhaps not. And no you cannot examine spiritual things under a microscope. You see what it chooses for you to see and that explains the wounds, for they make no sense otherwise… or do you think people are resurrected with detached heads or burned to ash?
I wouldn’t use the word “layer” because that word because it implies an added spatial dimension, and I don’t think it is part of the same-time structure at all. If you look at my reasons to believe you will see that for me that is part of the whole point – reality is not summed up by this mathematical understanding of things.
No, I do not think so.
The latter.
On a connected issue I am a physicalist with regards to the mind-body problem and oppose the Neoplatonist confusion of the mind with the spiritual. The evidence doesn’t support mind-body dualism. I think there is only an effective dualism due to the mind being a different form of physical life based on linguistic information rather than chemical information. The physical spiritual relationship is another matter. More dualistic in some ways, but ultimately an effective dualism as well, to do with whether things are part of the space-time mathematical structure or not. In that case, I think the relationship is largely epiphenomenal, and with the exception of God’s involvement in our lives, most of the causality is from the physical to the spiritual.
So I don’t think you could ever prove it’s existence or measure it in any way.
No. As Jesus said, He could simply see what the Father was doing. God healed them through entirely physical processes which He could effect the outcome of. But God would only do so within the statistical limits which define the laws of nature because those limits are important, needed for the process of life itself to work.
He taught them to pray. He did not give them the power of healing. It is God, the Father, who did the healing. Jesus was no wizard nor necromancer. I am a scientist but it is not ridiculous to me, because these spiritual things are not things you can measure and control. Objectively, they can be dismissed as chance and coincidence. But all that means is that the objective is not the limit of reality.