You are unfaithful Thomas! How did the phrase come about?;

The Apostle Thomas was absent when Christ, after His Resurrection, He visited His Disciples in the upper room where they were confined………

When he was informed about the visit of Christ, he asked to see Him and feel the wounds of the Cross in His hands and side.

Christ when He visited His Disciples again after eight days, He invited the Apostle Thomas to feel the marks of the wounds on His Body. Then the Apostle Thomas recognized Him and confessed Him as his Lord and God. He recognized him by the wounds of the Cross, which are a sign of His love, but also of His power.

The Holy Fathers call the confession of Thomas salvation. And it truly leads to salvation all those who turn to Christ humbly seeking His mercy.

The phrase of, has remained in history: "If I don't see the nail holes in his hands if I don't put them in…
my fingers in them and my hand at his side, I'm not going to believe" he had said.

Thomas remained in agony for eight days, until the next appearance of Jesus.
When the two met, Christ himself invited him to see with his eyes and touch with his hands His wounds, to make sure. The Apostle's reaction was quite impressive. He recognized and affirmed Him with the phrase "You are my Lord and my God".

Because of this fact, Jesus said the also historic phrase "Blessed are those who have believed without seeing".
Since then the designation of "Unbelieving Thomas" has remained not for those who do not believe but for those who ask for evidence to be convinced.
In other words, when we say to someone "Don't be unbelieving Thomas" we are essentially saying to him "Don't question me by asking for proof of the truth of what I say".

The fact that the Apostle Thomas was initially absent during Christ's appearance to His Disciples, it seems that it was God's economy, so that the miracle of the Resurrection can be believed and any kind of doubt can be dispelled.

The Apostle Thomas, after Pentecost, preached the Gospel to the Parthians, the Persians, the Medes and the Indians and had a martyr's end.

“And I put my finger on the type of nails”, “Irini Emin”, Faithless Thomas.
All three expressions arise from the disbelief of the Apostle Thomas to accept the Resurrection of the Lord. The first is used to state the tangible evidence as well as the truth of an event.

The “peace be upon us”, we say it to restore calm after a tension and o “faithless Thomas” describes people who refuse to believe in something, even if it is often right in front of their eyes!

The Apostle Thomas was absent when Christ, after His Resurrection, He visited His Disciples in the upper room where they were confined. When he was informed about the visit of Christ, he asked to see Him and feel the wounds of the Cross in His hands and side. Christ when He visited His Disciples again after eight days, He invited the Apostle Thomas to feel the marks of the wounds on His Body.

Then the Apostle Thomas recognized Him and confessed Him as his Lord and God. He recognized him by the wounds of the Cross, which are a sign of His love, but also of His power. The Holy Fathers call the confession of Thomas salvation. And it truly leads to salvation all those who turn to Christ humbly seeking His mercy.

The phrase of, has remained in history: "If I don't see the nail holes in his hands if I don't put them in…
my fingers in them and my hand at his side, I'm not going to believe" he had said.

Thomas remained in agony for eight days, until the next appearance of Jesus.
When the two met, Christ himself invited him to see with his eyes and touch with his hands His wounds, to make sure. The Apostle's reaction was quite impressive. He recognized and affirmed Him with the phrase "You are my Lord and my God".

Because of this fact, Jesus said the also historic phrase "Blessed are those who have believed without seeing".
Since then the designation of "Unbelieving Thomas" has remained not for those who do not believe but for those who ask for evidence to be convinced.
In other words, when we say to someone "Don't be unbelieving Thomas" we are essentially saying to him "Don't question me by asking for proof of the truth of what I say".

The fact that the Apostle Thomas was initially absent during Christ's appearance to His Disciples, it seems that it was God's economy, so that the miracle of the Resurrection can be believed and any kind of doubt can be dispelled.

The Apostle Thomas, after Pentecost, preached the Gospel to the Parthians, the Persians, the Medes and the Indians and had a martyr's end.

“And I put my finger on the type of nails”, “Irini Emin”, Faithless Thomas.
All three expressions arise from the disbelief of the Apostle Thomas to accept the Resurrection of the Lord. The first is used to state the tangible evidence as well as the truth of an event.

The “peace be upon us”, we say it to restore calm after a tension and o “faithless Thomas” describes people who refuse to believe in something, even if it is often right in front of their eyes!
Source:madata.gr
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