How can Christians be credited with scientific inventions they were fighting for all these years?
There are non-Christians TODAY who believe the Earth is only thousands of years old ... and FLAT !
4 in 10 Americans Believe God Created Earth 10,000 Years Ago | Live Science
No one witnessed the resurrection. This took place in a sealed tomb. As a matter of fact His disciples thought the body was stolen until He physically "appeared" to them. Additionally, the soldiers on duty reported that the body "disappeared" from the tomb as well, claiming no one opened it under their watch.
That just undermines your point, their conclusion is still inference it doesn't mean that what Jesus claimed in regards to God and the like was actually true. The only thing he was technically right about if we grant the notion of him coming back from the dead is that such a thing can happen, but not that God exists, or that heaven exists or the like.
What you call undermining, I call reinforcing.
How do you know this was a bodily appearance? If Jesus appeared to over 500 people, it was a vision, because Paul, in 1 Cor. 15 names himself as one of the people to whom Jesus appeared! Paul makes no distinction between Jesus appearing to him vs Jesus appearing to anyone else.
You can call it reinforcing, that doesn't hold up in terms of someone looking at this from an outside perspective rather than a perspective that's already convinced it's true and just looking for ways to justify it.
Christianity having something to do with it in terms of particular interpretations that were beneficial to scientific progress is incidental at best to whether the claims in Christianity are actually substantiated
How does being everywhere and knowing everything prevent Him from choosing to do things?
Nowhere does the Bible say God loves war.
He is merciful to those who have admitted that they dont deserve mercy and have accepted His Son as their substitute upon who God's just punishment falls. But he punishes those who are in rebellion against Him and His laws and refuse to accept His substitute, so receive the full just punishment for their rebellion against the eternal King of the Universe. Is a human judge inconsistent if he gives someone a reduced sentence for admitting their guilt and gives the max to someone who won't?
In His word He explains many aspects of reality. He told us that the universe had a definite beginning 3500 years before scientists confirmed it. He explains one of the main reasons why He created the universe. His existence explains why the universe is a diversity within a unity. He revealed that men and women are different beyond the obvious physical differences long before the recent rediscovery by scientists that that is true. And I could name many more things He has explained about reality.
Because if He already knows everything, why would He want to do anything? Since He already knows what is going to happen, if He wanted something done, He would have already done it. And if He is everywhere, then there is no point in His choosing to do anything, since He is already doing it.
You're playing with the meaning of "being one". By your analogy, the three persons of the Trinity may be one in their Goddishness, but are three separate entities.
Should you judge someone by what they say, or by what they do?
Definition of MERCY
These are about as impressive as a potato chip with Jesus's face on it.
Of course I can.
Not sure exactly what you are saying. Since God is not physical you cannot see Him physically with your eyes. And He is not IN creation, He is separate from it but it is EVIDENCE for Him.
That is true up to a point, we cannot prove with certainty that there is an objective reality but Christianity gives a more rational basis for believing an objective reality than atheism. And a more rational basis for an objective reality than Hinduism. And a more rational basis for real diversity than Hinduism and Islam.
