Are Atheist like the Apostle Thomas? Doubting Thomas...read for details.?

Question

Yesterday our Catholic mass talked about Apostle Thomas and how he couldn't believe in the sightings of Jesus. He would believe only when he appered in front of him and was able to stick his finger through the hole in his hand and thrust his hand in his side.

You can read it in the Bible, John 20:24-30. Jesus did appear to Thomas and a building with all the doors locked and told him to put his finger through the hole in his hand and thrust his hand in his side. Then Jesus said "Thomas, because thou hast seen me, thou hast believed: blessed are they that have not seen, and yet have believed."

So are atheist like Apostle Thomas. That's were the phrase doubting Thomas comes from. He had to see to believe.Just woundering how everyone felt about it.

Answer 1

Yes and no.

No - Thomas believed in god, an atheist does not.

Yes - If someone provided evidence substantial enough to convince me christianity is most likely to be true, I would probably convert.

I'm more interested in finding out what is true, rather than sticking to my current beliefs, no matter what.

Answer 2

i do no longer precisely doubt whether Jesus existed, he in all risk did, yet as so few unique information have been made at that element, proving one way or yet another is very impossible. yet one component which seems to point that he did stay, is that one in all those good form of comments approximately him have been exceeded directly to following generations. If he did stay, he might desire to easily have been an significant person, and easily had specific powers because of the fact one in all those good form of comments relate to those. of direction, after some centuries those might have been exaggerated incredibly, anybody knows how memories seem to strengthen a momentum of their very own with time. Now because of the fact i'm an atheist, i hit upon it impossible to have faith that Jesus is the son of a God as Christians declare, particularly as i don't have faith that such an entity exists. Jews and Muslims additionally refute this declare, and that they DO have faith in God, so something seems a sprint amiss, thinking those religions are based interior the place of the place Jesus lived. As for the 12 apostles, i think a similar applies, yet there seems to be like a sprint extra evidence concerning a number of those because of the fact they're stated later in different international locations' recorded histories. thinking particularly the tale approximately Jesus transforming into from the lifeless, properly it is not impossible. yet while one in all those component did ensue, i've got faith it grew to become into cleverly planned by using Jesus and his followers by using administering himself with specific drugs that have been then attainable, and those simulated a dying-like zombie state, wherein Jesus' physique known to be lifeless. in spite of the real actuality, we can on no account understand for specific, and that's the main tantalising secret.

Answer 3

I have no doubt. I do not believe in this religion or the other 4000 of the world's religions. No doubt.

Yes, I would like to have your god appear before me so I can thrust my hand through his side.

No atheists are not like Doubting Thomas. The character Jesus appeared for Thomas, whereas in real life, Jesus appears for schizophrenics and no one else.

Answer 4

Sort of. Atheism denotes a lack of belief in gods, not just a doubt. A wavering doubt would really be agnostisism.

That said, although Thomas did doubt, in the end he got proof to change his mind. He was right to judge something logically rather than on blind faith alone.

Unfortunately he seems to be the ony person that this applies to as anyone else who "doubts" the apparent word of the apparently one true god since Thomas has been penalised for it in societies built on theocracy.

Answer 5

Atheists are without belief and I for one do not believe in your God (I believe in a thing called LOVE). If you say you did not believe in Pink Unicorns are you waiting to see one? I wouldn't think so. Yet if you did see one would you believe, since you feel that Pink Unicorns do not exist, I do not know. But I like to read and I've read the Bible it's good like a novel from Milton or Blake, anyway Thomas believed in God just needed to see the "son" so...no Atheists are not like him, they are of a group of there own.

Answer 6

To be fair about it,people of the time knew nothing really of Ressurrection and it was a very difficult concept for Jews and even though Thomas believed in and loved Jesus he was not able to reconcile death with bodily ressurrection.
It really took the shock of the risen Christ to enable him to finally grasp this event in his mind.

Answer 7

Tell you what, I think not only Jesus is a legendary person, all his apostles are too, including Thomas. And if anyone stepped before me and showed me holes in his hands I'd consider him a trickster and not a messiah.

Answer 8

I think that's a fairly apt comparison.

I think, though, that it the story is to be believed, Thomas had more cause to believe than any atheists living today. If I had been traveling with someone who performed miracles for 3 years, I think I'd be more inclined to believe it when my companions claimed that he'd risen from the dead.

I've never seen a miracle, never seen any evidence of God, and never felt the presence of God in my life. I don't know how to believe in the absence of all of that.

Answer 9

i really don't think this concerns atheists, more agnostics. you see agnostics don't believe in a particular religion or deity nor do they deny it's exticence, where as atheist dont believe in any deity at all, they believe in science or nothing at all. so yes, i guess you can say that agnostics are doubting thomases.

Answer 10

You're stretching it a bit to include us in your story. The upshot of that is you guys get to feel a little superior because it says that you're blessed and we're not.

It's a story. That doesn't mean it's right.