Thomas Called Noone but Christ, Lord and God

Question: Isn't it clear that it was Christ that Thomas called as Lord and God as stated on the verse below?

26A week later the disciples were together again. This time, Thomas was with them. Jesus came in while the doors were still locked and stood in the middle of the group. He greeted his disciples 27and said to Thomas, "Put your finger here and look at my hands! Put your hand into my side. Stop doubting and have faith!"

28Thomas replied, "You are my Lord and my God!"

29Jesus said, "Thomas, do you have faith because you have seen me? The people who have faith in me without seeing me are the ones who are really blessed!" (John 20:26-29, (Contemporary English Version)

Answer:

You are using the Contemporary Translation of the Bible. Yet majority of the translations translated the part: "You are my Lord and my God!" of the Contemporary English Version as: "My Lord and My God." And I already told you on my previous post, "Thomas Called Christ His Lord and His God" that the God that the apostles believed, since it's the ONLY TRUE God that Christ introduced to them, is the Father.

Another thing is, when Thomas said, "My Lord and My God," he was still on the state of confusion and surprise since Thomas did not believe that Christ had risen from the dead. It just similar to when you're surprised and immediately shouted, "Jesus Maria Joseff!" or "Oh My God!"

In other words, Thomas on that verses, was not teaching nor preaching.

However, if you'll check who the ONLY TRUE God that the apostles including Thomas believed with, you'll learn that it's not Christ but it's the Father.

6 yet for us there is one God, the Father, of whom are all things, and we for Him; and one Lord Jesus Christ, through whom are all things, and through whom we live.(I Corinthians 8:6, New King James Version)

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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.

Christ Claimed He is God in John 10:35-36

Question: You said that Christ as the son of God is not God just because God declared in the old testament that there is none like him, nor there will be other God that will come after him. [see... Is there other God except the one true God?] But isn't it true that Christ claimed that He is God too as recorded in John 10:35-36?

Answer: Before I will say something about your question, let us first quote the verses John 10:34-36 from the New King James version:

34Jesus answered them, "Is it not written in your law, "I said, 'You are gods'"
35 If He called them gods, to whom the word of God came (and the Scripture cannot be broken).
36 "do you say of Him whom the Father sanctified and sent into the world, 'You are blaspheming,' because I said, 'I am the Son of God'?

Actually, Christ did not claim that He is God. What He claimed is that He is the son of God.

In that verses, Christ simply explained that there's nothing wrong if He will say that He is the son of God, just like when those people whom the word of God came as quoted by Christ were called gods.

Actually, it's the jews who mistook that Christ was claiming to be a God when he said He is the Son of God. They didn't understand that claiming to be the son of God didn't mean that he is claiming to be God.

To let you know, claiming to be the Son of God doesn't mean claiming to be God. Don't you remember who is the true God that Christ introduced? In John 17:1-3, it is His Father who is only the true God according to Christ. And Christ wanted his disciples to have that belief.

Then if for Christ, the Father is the only true God, then it also means that there is no other God besides His Father. If there are those who are called gods, those gods are not true God because the Father is the only true God.