24 Now Thomas, called
the Twin, one of the twelve, was not with them when Jesus came. 25 The other
disciples therefore said to him, “We have seen the Lord.” So he said to them,
“Unless I see in His hands the print of the nails, and put my finger into the
print of the nails, and put my hand into His side, I will not believe.” 26 And
after eight days His disciples were again inside, and Thomas with them. Jesus
came, the doors being shut, and stood in the midst, and said, “Peace to you!” 27 Then He said to
Thomas, “Reach your finger
here, and look at My hands; and reach your hand here, and
put it into
My side. Do not be unbelieving, but believing.” 28 And Thomas answered and said to Him, “My Lord
and my God!” 29 Jesus said to him, “Thomas, because you
have seen Me, you have believed. Blessed are those
who have not seen and yet have believed.” John 20:24-29
If you watched the recent mini-series The Bible, you
may have noticed that at every chance they could the producers had Thomas
essentially saying “I doubt that”. Of
course, Thomas is the skeptic because Thomas doubted Jesus’s resurrection until
he saw it for himself. However, upon seeing Jesus, Thomas’s confession was right
on. When Thomas laid eyes on the risen Christ, his reaction was to say “My
Lord and my God!” affirming not only His lordship,
but the deity of Jesus.
There are people who may
doubt the deity of Christ, as well as cults that outright deny it. What do
these people believe about Jesus? They usually will say that He was a good
teacher, a prophet, or an angel. The
problem here is that Jesus did not correct Thomas when he called Him “God”. Good
people, prophets, and angels in the Bible do not accept worship as God. In Acts 10:26, Cornelius falls down at Peter’s
feet and Peter immediately corrects him saying, “Stand
up; I myself am also a man.” However, the Gospels record time after time
as people fell down at Jesus’s feet and worshiped Him. In Revelation 22, John fell down at the feet of
an angel; the angel’s reply was “9 See that you do not do that. For I
am your fellow servant, and of your brethren the prophets, and of those who
keep the words of this book. Worship God.” We are told in Romans 1 that judgment comes to
men for worshiping the creature rather than Creator, and God says in Isaiah
42:8 “ My glory I will not
give to another”. Because these Biblical truths, good people, prophets, and
angels would never receive worship and allow themselves to be referred to as “my
God”.
When Thomas saw Jesus
and said “My Lord and My God”, Jesus
did not correct him. Jesus affirmed the
truth by saying “Thomas, because you have
seen Me, you have believed. Blessed are those who have not seen and yet have believed.” Believe in Jesus as your Lord and your God and be blessed!
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