The Story of Thomas - The Apostle of Belief
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- In the beginning was the Word, the reason why God made everything. What does it mean to believe in the word? Did Thomas doubt that Jesus was the word, and why did Thomas doubt Jesus? Let's explore. 🚀
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Timestamps:
0:00-3:21 - What if the Resurrection Was True?
3:22-5:53 - Judas Didymus Thomas
5:54-7:35 - Biblical Belief
7:36-11:38 - Ministry Around Galilee
11:39-15:40 - Jerusalem
15:41-22:16 - The Passion
22:17-28:16 - Doubting Thomas
28:16-30:26 - Introducing: The Acts of Thomas
30:26-37:18 - The Acts of Thomas
37:19-42:03 - Believing Thomas
Resources:
Aaron C. Fenlason, “Belief,” ed. Douglas Mangum et al., Lexham Theological Wordbook, Lexham Bible Reference Series (Bellingham, WA: Lexham Press, 2014).
Saint Thomas the Apostle: New Testament, Apocrypha, and Historical Traditions - www.christianbook.com/Christi...
www.stapostle.org/st-thomas-c...
www.britannica.com/biography/...
stthomastheapostle.org/about/...
Tyndale Bible Dictionary
The Lexham Bible Dictionary
Harmony of the Gospels by Thomas and Gundry
gnosis.org/library/actthom.htm
harmony.bible/small-group-reso...
Cosmic Skeptic: • CosmicSkeptic on the R...
Proof of Resurrection: • What are the proofs fo...
Emma Thorne & Bart Ehrman: • The Resurrection of Je...
NT Wright: • The Resurrection of Je...
www.gotquestions.org/faith-vs...
www.evantell.org/what-does-th...
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For the sake of one person (me) please don’t stop making these videos. These are wonderful! I enjoy them so much and appreciate your hard work. Blessings!
Thank you for your kind words!
I understand humans feel the strong need or desire for physical proof to understand or believe something but Jesus did so many miracles for people right in front of their faces and they still didn’t believe so it makes me feel as if we Christians had 10000% physical proof for people it still wouldn’t matter they’d still deny God. I don’t feel as if anybody should rely so much on physical proof.
You know there's a bit of an easter egg for all of those who are able to watch through this video (a long one I know).The opening line “all the evidence presented thus far has been biblical” is the ultimate point of the video, This doesn't come up until practically the very end where you realize that the ultimate, or best, “proof” we have of the resurrection is the word of God and the testimony of the saints (cf., Rev. 12:11). Hope you enjoy it!
Easter? Ishtar. Come on.
I absolutely love the way you narrate your videos. Makes this so interesting. Thank you for your content 🙏
Your videos have brought me closer to Christ! I thank you for your content!!!! ❤
Thank you for your kind words, Amber!
This was amazing
Glory be to God
Thank you for making this video, God bless 🙏
Thank you for your sharing this knowledge with us.
That's so beautiful! Thank you and May God bless you and may you be a message that he wants us to remember!
Great video guy. I hope you know how blessed you yourself is to understand the word this well. You are gifted in the way you deliver these stories and you serve the word well and with integrity. This video has me believing. Keep sharing the good news, you are changing… no, saving lives. Keep fishing brother.
Jesus died on the 9th hour, 3PM and rose again early in the morning on the 3rd day.
magnificent narration.
It’s a bit pity that you didn’t mention that Jesus entrusted the writing of his secret Gospel to Thomas.
By the way, there, too, it was Thomas who recognized Jesus as God like at John), while other disciples recognized him as the Messiah, a great sage, etc.
It's also notable that full version of parable of the prodigal son is saved in "Act of Thomas"
Psalm 73:22
I was brutish and ignorant; I was like a beast toward you.
Proverbs 30:2
Surely I am too stupid to be a man. I have not the understanding of a man.
Psalm 41:4
As for me, I said, O Lord, be gracious to me; heal me, for I have sinned against you!
Psalm 51:3
I know my transgressions, and my sin is ever before me.
Isaiah 59:12
For our transgressions are multiplied before you, and our sins testify against us; for our transgressions are with us, and we know our iniquities:
Jeremiah 14:7
Though our iniquities testify against us, act, O Lord, for your name's sake; for our backslidings are many; we have sinned against you.
Psalm 25:11
For your name's sake, O Lord, pardon my guilt, for it is great.
Psalm 79:9
Help us, O God of our salvation, for the glory of your name; deliver us, and atone for our sins, for your name's sake!
Psalm 143:10-11
Teach me to do your will, for you are my God! Let your good Spirit lead me on level ground! For your name's sake, O Lord, preserve my life! In your righteousness bring my soul out of trouble!
Psalm 119:12
Blessed are you, O Lord; teach me your statutes!
Psalm 25:5
Lead me in your truth and teach me, for you are the God of my salvation; for you I wait all the day long.
Psalm 36:9
For with you is the fountain of life; in your light do we see light.
Psalm 18:28
For it is you who light my lamp; the Lord my God lightens my darkness.
Jeremiah 32:17
Lord God! It is you who have made the heavens and the earth by your great power and by your outstretched arm! Nothing is too hard for you.
Job 42:2
I know that you can do all things, and that no purpose of yours can be thwarted.
Isaiah 14:27
For the Lord of hosts has purposed, and who will annul it? His hand is stretched out, and who will turn it back?
Proverbs 21:30
No wisdom, no understanding, no counsel can avail against the Lord.
Psalm 115:3
Our God is in the heavens; he does all that he pleases.
Psalm 135:6
Whatever the Lord pleases, he does, in heaven and on earth, in the seas and all deeps.
Daniel 4:35
all the inhabitants of the earth are accounted as nothing, and he does according to his will among the host of heaven and among the inhabitants of the earth; and none can stay his hand or say to him, What have you done?
Job 34:14-15
If he should set his heart to it and gather to himself his spirit and his breath, all flesh would perish together, and man would return to dust.
Psalm 106:1
Praise the Lord! Oh give thanks to the Lord, for he is good, for his steadfast love endures forever!
The details of Thomas's life is very important the fact of the matter is you have Thomas was teaching gnosticism Jesus's death and Resurrection didn't affect him at all
I can look at creation and know that there is a divine Creator of ALL FATHER. Thank you Yeshua.
Genesis 6 explains everything.
Dr. Michael Heiser
Gary Wayne
Hebrews 12:29
Our God is a consuming fire.
2 Thessalonians 1:8
in flaming fire, inflicting vengeance on those who do not know God and on those who do not obey the gospel of our Lord Jesus.
2 Peter 3:10
The day of the Lord will come like a thief, and then the heavens will pass away with a roar, and the heavenly bodies will be burned up and dissolved, and the earth and the works that are done on it will be exposed.
Isaiah 51:6
Lift up your eyes to the heavens, and look at the earth beneath; for the heavens vanish like smoke, the earth will wear out like a garment, and they who dwell in it will die in like manner; but my salvation will be forever, and my righteousness will never be dismayed.
Psalm 102:25-26
Of old you laid the foundation of the earth, and the heavens are the work of your hands. They will perish, but you will remain; they will all wear out like a garment. You will change them like a robe, and they will pass away,
Matthew 24:35
Heaven and earth will pass away, but my words will not pass away.
Isaiah 40:8
The grass withers, the flower fades, but the word of our God will stand forever.
Matthew 5:18
For truly, I say to you, until heaven and earth pass away, not an iota, not a dot, will pass from the Law until all is accomplished.
Matthew 10:14-15
And if anyone will not receive you or listen to your words, shake off the dust from your feet when you leave that house or town. Truly, I say to you, it will be more bearable on the day of judgment for the land of Sodom and Gomorrah than for that town.
John 15:22-24
If I had not come and spoken to them, they would not have been guilty of sin, but now they have no excuse for their sin. Whoever hates me hates my Father also. If I had not done among them the works that no one else did, they would not be guilty of sin, but now they have seen and hated both me and my Father.
James 4:17
So whoever knows the right thing to do and fails to do it, for him it is sin.
2 Peter 2:21
For it would have been better for them never to have known the way of righteousness than after knowing it to turn back from the holy commandment delivered to them.
Hebrews 6:4-6
For it is impossible, in the case of those who have once been enlightened, who have tasted the heavenly gift, and have shared in the Holy Spirit, and have tasted the goodness of the word of God and the powers of the age to come, and then have fallen away, to restore them again to repentance, since they are crucifying once again the Son of God to their own harm and holding him up to contempt.
Hebrews 10:29
How much worse punishment, do you think, will be deserved by the one who has trampled underfoot the Son of God, and has profaned the blood of the covenant by which he was sanctified, and has outraged the Spirit of grace?
Hebrews 12:25
See that you do not refuse him who is speaking. For if they did not escape when they refused him who warned them on earth, much less will we escape if we reject him who warns from heaven.
Hebrews 2:1
Therefore we must pay much closer attention to what we have heard, lest we drift away from it.
Luke 8:15
As for that in the good soil, they are those who, hearing the word, hold it fast in an honest and good heart, and bear fruit with patience.
1 John 2:3
And by this we know that we have come to know him, if we keep his commandments.
John 15:10
If you keep my commandments, you will abide in my love, just as I have kept my Father's commandments and abide in his love.
1 Thessalonians 4:1
Finally, then, brothers, we ask and urge you in the Lord Jesus, that as you received from us how you ought to walk and to please God, just as you are doing, that you do so more and more.
Because of how you did the voice of Jesus, I’m going to have to listen to Lazarus by Carmen after this video.
I don't know what that is but I just couldn't resist! Reverb makes everything sound epic.
@@BibleUnbound it’s a Christian song made in the 80s (I think)
Awesome❤
Thank you for your willingness to parse through the heretical accounts to find the truth within them.
Glad you had the grace to stick with me!
Some of us need to understand how faith works in each individual, .
No proof is necessary for those that believe, for those that don't believe, all the proof in the world won't matter.
My man said his whole government name
😂 if his name was Judas, you can see why he preferred his nickname...
Logos
So why after hearing and believing in Christ' life, sermons and miracles, is everybody so very quick to write off Thomas? even though after seeing Jesus resurrected he is the only disciple who holds his belief more than any of the others, this makes 0 sense to me. Also, it is said that we don't know why Thomas went to India, was he not instructed by Christ to spread the word of the Lord? that seems like a pretty open and shut case to me, but, again, I might be missing something. I am not well versed in the scriptures hence why I am here learning. But, if we write off Thomas and don't believe a word he says, why should we believe any of the disciples? or even Christ himself? seems like the "Church" decides what's Gods word and what is not, if they don't like the story, they remove it
30:26 According to the lot, therefore, India fell unto Judas Thomas, which is also the twin: but he would not go, saying that by reason of the weakness of the flesh he could not travel, and 'I am an Hebrew man; how can I go amongst the Indians and preach the truth?' And as he thus reasoned and spake, the Saviour appeared unto him by night and saith to him: Fear not, Thomas, go thou unto India and preach the word there, for my grace is with thee. But he would not obey, saying: Whither thou wouldest send me, send me, but elsewhere, for unto the Indians I will not go.
2 And while he thus spake and thought, it chanced that there was there a certain merchant come from India whose name was Abbanes, sent from the King Gundaphorus [Gundaphorus is a historical personage who reigned over a part of India in the first century after Christ. His coins bear his name in Greek, as Hyndopheres], and having commandment from him to buy a carpenter and bring him unto him.
Now the Lord seeing him walking in the market-place at noon said unto him: Wouldest thou buy a carpenter? And he said to him: Yea. And the Lord said to him: I have a slave that is a carpenter and I desire to sell him. And so saying he showed him Thomas afar off, and agreed with him for three litrae of silver unstamped, and wrote a deed of sale, saying: I, Jesus, the son of Joseph the carpenter, acknowledge that I have sold my slave, Judas by name, unto thee Abbanes, a merchant of Gundaphorus, king of the Indians. And when the deed was finished, the Saviour took Judas Thomas and led him away to Abbanes the merchant, and when Abbanes saw him he said unto him: Is this thy master? And the apostle said: Yea, he is my Lord. And he said: I have bought thee of him. And thy apostle held his peace.
3 And on the day following the apostle arose early, and having prayed and besought the Lord he said: I will go whither thou wilt, Lord Jesus: thy will be done. And he departed unto Abbanes the merchant, taking with him nothing at all save only his price. For the Lord had given it unto him, saying: Let thy price also be with thee, together with my grace, wheresoever thou goest.
- gnosis. org
The video left out some details I found was interesting in the original text (which I posted above for all to see). 1. Thomas refused to go to India. Then 2. when Jesus himself appeared to him and commanded him to go, Thomas STILL refused to go. Then 3., rather comically, Jesus sells Thomas to an Indian Merchant in which Thomas (begrudgingly in my mind), finally gives in and obeys Jesus.
We see examples in the cannonical gospels of Mathew, Mark, Luke, and John toward the end of each book that Jesus can disguise his form and also teleport (John 20:19). So when Jesus appears in The Acts of Thomas as above, I believe he appears quite literally in physical form as Jesus had done numerous times before this point and after his death. This was not a vision.
34:35 What I find interesting about the story of the talking donkey (there's also another story in the Acts of Thomas of a talking colt), is that India has a culture of respecting animals. And I believe the story of these talking animals may well be the origin of that Hinduistic custom. If I had witnessed animals speaking, I can't help but wonder if I'd go vegetarian myself.
Amen 🙏🏿
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