Thomas Called Christ His Lord and His God

Question: It might be true that Christ didn't claim that He is God in John 10:35-36 just like what you've been explained in your previous answer. [Christ claimed he is God in John 10:35-36?]

However, in John 20, it is clear that Christ claimed to God.

To story is this: When Thomas touched Christ and his wounds, Thomas said, "My Lord and My God." Then answered, "Thomas, because you have seen me you believe me. Blessed those who haven't seen me but believed me."

If Christ didn't claim that He is God then he should not said "you have seen me that's why you believed me" after Thomas called him "Lord and God".

Answer:

Before I will answer your question or argument, let us first quote the verses:

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,[a] because you have seen Me, you have believed. Blessed are those who have not seen and yet have believed.”

Here's my thought:

First, I can't say that the God that Thomas believed is Christ. Why? It's because in John 17:1-3, the only true God that Christ introduced to his apostles and followers is the Father. Here's the verses:

1 Jesus spoke these words, lifted up His eyes to heaven, and said: “Father, the hour has come. Glorify Your Son, that Your Son also may glorify You, 2 as You have given Him authority over all flesh, that He should[a] give eternal life to as many as You have given Him. 3 And this is eternal life, that they may know You, the only true God, and Jesus Christ whom You have sent.

Notice what Christ said: "... that they [people, disciples, apostles, or followers] may know you [Father], the only true God."

So, for sure, when Thomas said "My God", he was not referring Christ because he knew who was the only true God.

And when Christ said to Thomas, "you believed because you have seen me", it is not to agree with what Thomas had said which is "My Lord and My God" but it's about the resurrection of Christ. Read again the quoted verses and notice that the topic is not about the divinity of Christ but about the resurrection of Christ.

So, when Christ said, "you believed because you have seen me", it is just to tell Thomas that he believed that Christ had risen just because he had seen him in person.