Second Sunday of Easter 2009

Seville, 2002
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Thomas:

“Unless I see the mark of the nails in his hands, and put my finger in the mark of the nails and my hand in his side, I will not believe.” (John 20:25)

Most of us:

Show me.

Prove it.

Make me believe. (Everyday conversations.)

Wikipedia:

Doubt, a status between belief and disbelief, involves uncertainty or distrust or lack of sureness of an alleged fact, an action, a motive, or a decision. Doubt brings into question some notion of a perceived "reality", and may involve delaying or rejecting relevant action out of concerns for mistakes or faults or appropriateness.

Wikipedia:

Faith is the confident belief in the truth of or trustworthiness of a person, idea, or thing. It is also used for a belief, characteristically without proof.

In Christianity, [faith] derives from the Greek pistis meaning to trust, to have confidence, faithfulness, reliable, to assure.

Very rarely does it relate to any teaching that must be believed.

Thomas:

“My Lord and my God!”

Jesus:

“Have you believed because you have seen me? Blessed are those who have not seen and yet have come to believe.”

Most of us:

[Silence]