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Originally Posted by awareness
I think I'm starting to get what you are driving at. If it wasn't wrong for Thomas -- a disciple of all people -- to require physical proof how can it be wrong when we today require physical proof? Well maybe it's not.
But then, if physical proof can't be found today, does that mean God won't hold it against us if we don't believe what can't be physically proven?
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That is where you differ from Thomas. He never said that "physical proof can't be found today". On the contrary he had enough faith to ask for it.
Second, Jesus didn't "hold this against him". Rather He said "29 Jesus saith unto him, Because thou hast seen me, thou hast believed: blessed are they that have not seen, and yet have believed."
Often the gospel is likened to a trial and the gospel contact to the Jury. We used to think that an "eyewitness" was the gold standard, but after quite a bit of research we have learned that eyewitnesses do not "bless" the trial. Rather, what really "blesses" the trial is physical evidence like fingerprints and DNA.