For Thomas to have called Jesus Lord and God he would have needed to say it in the vocative case, which he didn't. Thomas used the nominative case as recorded by John, which is equal to Thomas making an open statement about an unspecified Lord and God without saying Jesus is the one he's referring to. You can compare this to Matthew 16:16 where Peter explicitly told Jesus "you" are the Christ and the Son of the Living God in the vocative case.
We can get some context. In John 20:17, Jesus said his and his brothers God is the Father. God doesn't have a God or else that would be two Gods and unnecessary redundancy, essentially nonsensical gibberish. If Jesus is a man with a God then there is no problem. Starting to get it yet?
Yes its not what we do see the dying temporal historical but the things we do not see . Things of faith the invisible working of Christ .
Words of
faith "Let there be" Same kind of words (spirt and life) breathed on the eleven when Thomas was absent
John 6 6:63 It is the
spirit that
quickeneth; the
flesh profiteth nothing: (zero nada) the
words that
I speak unto you, they are
spirit, and
they are
life.
Same kind of living loving
word below
Matthew 8:8 The centurion answered and said, Lord, I am not worthy that thou shouldest come under my roof: but
speak the word only, and my servant shall be healed.
Again the
law of
faith. . God's invisible
power . Let there be and "Thomas as the other 11 were saved"
John 20:21-23 Then said Jesus to them again, Peace be unto you: as my Father hath sent me, even so send I you. And when he had said this, he breathed on them, and saith unto them,(words of the father)
Receive ye the
Holy Ghost: Whose soever sins ye remit, they are remitted unto them; and whose soever sins ye retain, they are retained.
John 20:27 Then saith he to
Thomas, Reach hither thy finger, and behold my hands; and reach hither thy hand, and thrust it into my side: and (the loving let there be commandment) be
not faithless, but
believing.
The loving commandment be not faithless ( but rather be a beliers Then the confession of faith moved by the Holy Soirt
R
omans 10:9-10 That
if thou shalt
confess with thy
mouth the
Lord Jesus, (let there be) and shalt
believe in thine heart that
God hath raised him from the dead, (the and it is was God alone god) thou shalt be saved.For with the heart man believeth unto righteousness; and with the
mouth confession is made unto salvation.
