Thomas said he wanted to examine the puncture wounds on Jesus' hands before he would believe?
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I demand proof that you exist before I will answer.
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Jesus lied...\nHere are the quotes from Jesus that proves that he lied:\n\n \n\n    1)  And Jesus answered and said to them, "Truly I say to you, if you have faith and do not doubt, you will not only do what was done to the fig tree, but even if you say to this mountain, `Be taken up and cast into the sea,' it will happen.  "And all things you ask in prayer, believing, you will receive."  (Matthew 21:21-22 NAS)\n\n \n\n    2)  Ask and it will be given to you; seek and you will find; knock and the door will be opened to you.  For everyone who asks, receives; and the one who seeks, finds; and to the one who knocks, the door will be opened.  (Matthew 7:7-8 NAB)\n\n \n\n    3)  Again I say to you, that if two of you agree on earth about anything that they may ask, it shall be done for them by My Father who is in heaven.  For where two or three have gathered together in My name, I am there in their midst.  (Matthew 18:19-20 NAS)\n\n \n\n    4)  Amen, I say to you, whoever says to this mountain, 'Be lifted up and thrown into the sea,' and does not doubt in his heart but believes that what he says will happen, it shall be done for him.  Therefore I tell you, all that you ask for in prayer, believe that you will receive it and it shall be yours.  (Mark 11:24-25 NAB)\n\n \n\n    5)  And I tell you, ask and you will receive; seek and you will find; knock and the door will be opened to you.  For everyone who asks, receives; and the one who seeks, finds; and to the one who knocks, the door will be opened.  (Luke 11:9-13 NAB)\n\n \n\n    6)  And whatever you ask in my name, I will do, so that the Father may be glorified in the Son.  If you ask anything of me in my name, I will do it.  (John 14:13-14 NAB)\n\n \n\n    7)  If you remain in me and my words remain in you, ask for whatever you want and it will be done for you.  (John 15:7 NAB)\n\n \n\n    8)  It was not you who chose me, but I who chose you and appointed you to go and bear fruit that will remain, so that whatever you ask the Father in my name he may give you.  (John 15:16 NAB)\n\n \n\n    9)  On that day you will not question me about anything.  Amen, amen, I say to you, whatever you ask the Father in my name he will give you.  Until now you have not asked anything in my name; ask and you will receive, so that your joy may be complete.  (John 16:23-24 NAB)\n\n \n\n    A lot of Christians ignore what Jesus actually says in the Bible.  They also tend to add things to the actual words to make them say something else.  If you honestly and truthfully read these quotes, without adding to them, it is very easy to see that Jesus is not saying that God will think about your prayers.  He says God will grant all your prayers.  Clearly, God doesn’t grant all prayers and this proves that Jesus was a habitual liar.
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He is the apostle Thomas, supposed writer of the hidden Gospel of Thomas.  He is also known from the saying of a person being known as a "Doubting Thomas."
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Jesus went through what is called agony, this word comes from the Greek and Latin as `Agonia` which literally means a contest or battle between two combatants, so Jesus had a titanic struggle with satan in the garden of olives, which was so intense that He sweated profusely and mingled with His sweat was blood.\nmedical evidence knows that this is an actual occurrence that happens to a person under enormous stress,the tiny capillaries just under the skin burst and blood is then mixed in the perspiration of the sufferer.\nyou can imagine how cruelly the evil one taunted Jesus, you cannot save the world and all this is for nothing etc, and on top of all this extreme mental anguish was the knowledge that there would be those that would refuse His sacrifice and be lost.\nof course there was much,much more to the agony of Christ than this,but I do not think that He was too concerned about the Roman method of breaking the legs of the crucified, we are told in the Gospels that Jesus gave up His spirit at the  appointed time and therefore died before the Romans could do this.
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Jesus did a lot just to fulfill the prophecy's of the old testament. It's good to question things. If the book can't stand up to our questions it's not worth the paper its printed on.
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I'm going with "D."  The repetition of "O The Blood of Jesus" sounds a lot like perseveration to me.\n\nEither that, or some sort of exorcism.  Have you been spitting up pea soup?  Unusual range of motion in the neck?  Might need looking into.\n\n:)
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We don't know.\n\nGod didn't tell Moses, obviously. But everyone saw it and everyone knew what it was.  In my (very humble) opinion, it might have involved fire (God's energy) as many instances in the Bible God appears this way. For example, he appears as a fiery cloud (leading the Israelites),  he etched the stone tablets of the Ten Commandments, for Moses, with his own finger (must have been fire to write on stone), and appeared as a disembodied hand, which wrote on the stone wall during the feast of King Belshazzar ( Belshazzar and revelers were drinking out of the stolen temple vessels, and he and his friends were drunk and blaspheming the name of God ("the handwriting on the wall" Daniel 5.))\n\nWhen God "touched" Cain when he marked him, it was to cause a fear and awe in people who would recognize it and not kill Cain. \n\nTo me, God's mark would have burned him, and badly.  But, we just don't know.\n\nGod may have touched his forehead, his face, the back of his head, his hands, his arm, his chest or back. But wherever he would have touched him, it would have  been "etched" or burned, probably right down to the bone. Perhaps just a gouge across the forehead would have done it. \n\nThink about what severe burn victims look like. The skin is never totally  "repaired" so that you don't notice it.  God wouldn't have had to cause Cain pain with this, because he is God.  He could have quickly marked, seared the skin, and it wouldn't continue to hurt.\n\nHowever, another version:  Many interpreters of the Latin think it may have been a physical shuddering (like involuntary spasm), or an expression of horror or consternation (perhaps like a scream)??  Perhaps it was like a "palsy" whereby he lost all muscle control of his facial expression, and it turned into a frozen expression of shame or horror,  for example.\n\n<<<<<<<<<<>>>>>>>>>>>\nFrom this website: http://www.newadvent.org/bible/gen004.htm\n\nGen 4:15. And the Lord said to him: No, it shall not so be: but whosoever shall kill Cain, shall be punished sevenfold. And the Lord set a mark upon Cain, that whosoever found him should not kill him.\nLATIN: Dixitque ei Dominus nequaquam ita fiet sed omnis qui occiderit Cain septuplum punietur posuitque Dominus Cain signum ut non eum interficeret omnis qui invenisset eum\n"Set a mark, etc... The more common opinion of the interpreters of holy writ supposes this mark to have been a trembling of the body; or a horror and consternation in his countenance."
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I LOVE JESUS! He died for us for that we would not perish,but have eternal life! Just think of giving up your only son so that he could bare our sins,I couldnt do it but GOD did!The beatings and torture he went through is because of us,we put the scars on him!If you really want to show your friend,be christ-like,and do as JESUS did! I'll keep you in my prayers,but remember you can try to lead them to believe,but you cant make them if they accept not to believe!
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Here is exactly what Jesus went through for us, because He loves us that much. It is a decriptive narrative by a physicion of Jesus crucifixion. After you read it, You have to clearly realize that what Jesus did for us was out of total and complete endless love for each and everone of us....\n\nA medical doctor provides a description of the crucifixion of Jesus. \n\nAfter Jesus was brutally beaten and scorged with the cat of nine tails beyone human recognition, the cross is placed on the ground, and the exhausted Jesus is quickly thrown backwards, with His shoulders against the wood. The soldier feels for the depression at the front of the wrists, not the palm of the hand. He drives a heavy, square wrought-iron naiil through the wrist deep into the wood. Quickly he moves to the other side and repeats the action, being careful not to pull the arms too tightly, but to allow some flex and movement. The cross is then lifted into place. The left foot is pressed backward against the right foot, and with both feet extended, toes down, a nail is driven through the arch of each, leaving the knees flexed. the victim is now crucified. \n\nAs He slowly sags down with more weight on the nails in the wrists, and not on the hands as believed and depected in pictures and on crosses, excruciating fiery pain shoots along the fingers and up the arms to explode in the brain--the nails in the wrist are putting pressure on the median nerves. As He pushes Himself upward to avoid this stretching torment, He places the full weight on the nail through His feet. Again He feels the searing agony of the nail tearing through the nerves between the bones of His feet. \n\nAs the arms fatigue, cramps sweep through His muscles, knotting them with deep relentless, and throbbing pain. With these cramps comes the inability to push Himself upward to breathe. Finally, carbon dioxide builds up in the lungs and in the blood stream, and the cramps partially subsided. Spasmodically, He is able to push Himself upward to exhale and bring in life-giving oxygen. Hours of limitless pain, cycles of twisting, joint-renting cramps, intermittent partial asphyxiation, searing pain as tissue is torn from His lacerated back as He moves up and down against rough timber. Then another agony begins: a deep, crushing pain begins deep in the chest as the pericardius slowly fills with serum and begins to compress the heart. \n\nIt is now almost over. The loss of tissue fluids has reached a critical level. The compressed heart is struggling to pump heavey, thick sluggish blood into the tissues. The tortured lungs are making frantic effort to gasp in small gulps of air. He can feel the chill of death creeping through His tissues. Finally, He allows His body to die. \n\nAll this the Bible records with the simple words, "And they crucified Him" Mark 15:24 \n\nFor those of you who can read this graphic indepth description, of how Jesus willingly gave up His life, so you can have eternal life, but still reject His free gift of salvation by refusing to accept Him for this sacrifice. You will not only have to live with that choice, but will surely die by it as well. \n\nIf you wish to accept Jesus as your savior today, take one minute of your time and say this prayer... \n\nHere is your way to obtain salvation. \nIf you want to accept Christ, you can ask Him to be your Savior and Lord by praying a prayer like this: \n\n"Lord Jesus, I believe you are the Son of God. Thank you for dying on the cross for my sins. Please forgive my sins and give me the gift of eternal life. I ask you in to my life and heart to be my Lord and Savior. I want to serve you always." In the precious name of Jesus, amen
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There's apparently a big debate about this. If you're part of an older church, then yeah, God would've given the smackdown before rapture. Newer churches take the view of the rapture occurring before the mayhem begins.
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26And 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!” 27Then 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.”\n28And Thomas answered and said to Him, “My Lord and my God!”\n29Jesus said to him, £“Thomas, because you have seen Me, you have believed. Blessed are those who have not seen and yet have believed.”  John 20:26-29\n\nWe are promised that if we seek Him we will find Him.  Search His word, pray for wisdom.  \n\nHe doesn't speak to us today as He did to the Patriarchs, but He speaks to us in every sunrise, every sunset, everything beautiful.
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This question fails cuz Muslims don't believe he was on the cross. But if he was he would be dying of a combination of blood loos and suffocation due to his lungs inability to contract so he wouldn't have said anything.
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to those that quoted Tacitus his accuracy on the subject is quite suspect considering that he was not even born until 20 years after the supposed death of Jesus. \n\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tacitus_on_Jesus\n\n\nalso the description of Jesus by Josephus has been proven to been corrupted by Christian scribes especially when compared to copies kept in Muslim lands.
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I'd ask him if he was truly saved by the blood of Jesus.
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well, as the story goes, he did this in order to pay for your sins\n\nim not altogether sure i've ever understood that story very much though\n\nim sort of the mindset that ok jesus was preaching and gaining a large following, this upset political leaders of the day and they started to feel that an uprising or a shift in power was about to happen\n\nchrist, as he preached in the gospels "if a man hits you on one cheek, let him hit you on the other" was a pacifist and did not confront physical violence back with violence\n\ninstead, he allowed them to kill him in order to make a point, the point being that 1. he was not going to cave to political pressure and shut up and 2. that he was fulfilling a divine plan of his fathers in order to meet his father's criteria of how things are to be resolved
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There was a group in Paul's day that said when Jesus resurrected, He was a spirit and not a body. Jesus proved this to be false because He ate with the disciples and said to Thomas, "See, a spirit does not have flesh and bone." (note: no blood, that was shed on the cross)\n\nAlso notice that Jesus was able to appear and disappear at will. Yes, Jesus has a body, but there was something about it that superceded the laws of physics. It was a resurrected body. But note also that He still bore the scars of His crucifiction. These will be a living witness of His love for us for the rest of eternity.\n\nThis new body is a slight glimpse of what is waiting for the believer. Jesus said, "I go to prepare a place for you, that where I am, there you may be also." Some think that this "place" is actually our new body.\n\nBlessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who according to His abundant mercy has begotten us again to a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead, to an inheritance incorruptible and undefiled and that does not fade away, reserved in heaven for you, who are kept by the power of God through faith for salvation ready to be revealed in the last time. - 1 Peter 1
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He ate fish after his resurection.\nHe hungered.\n Jesus even said himself "A spirit does not have flesh and bones as you see I have"