Illuminator
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TRANSLATION:You being so plainly misinformed to so confidently tell the world to hear, <<The Bible tells us nothing about why Thomas wasn't with the other disciples when Jesus first appeared or what he was doing>>, the Bible on the contrary very explicitly tells us of those who like Thomas did, acknowledge they don't know and like Thomas did, ask how will we know and often heard Jesus say that such INQUISITIVE should study the Scriptures "BECAUSE THEY TESTIFY OF ME -JESUS THE MESSIAH LORD AND GOD of those who ask such questions and make such confession as made Thomas. The question I ask you, is, HOW CAN YOU NOT, SEE IT? Don't you find Christ in the Scriptures the WORD OF GOD?
HOW CAN YOU NOT, SEE IT? Don't you find MY EGO in the Scriptures the WORD OF GOD?.
Yes, I can. It's as plain as day.
John 29:25 So the other disciples told him, “We have seen the Lord!” But he said to them, “Unless I see the nail marks in his hands and put my finger where the nails were, and put my hand into his side, I will not believe.”
“How can I find the wounds of Jesus today? I cannot see them as Thomas saw them. I find them in doing works of mercy, in giving to the body — to the body and to the soul, but I stress the body — of your injured brethren, for they are hungry, thirsty, naked, humiliated, slaves, in prison, in hospital. These are the wounds of Jesus in our day”.
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GerhardEbersoehn accuses the Pope of blasphemy because he can't find the wounds of Jesus in our day, to him the Bible is past tense wherever it suits his ego... so he insults the Pope like a child having a temper tantrum.
The sufferings of Christ are mysteriously connected to the sufferings of all humanity (by His stripes we are healed) which is why the Resurrection is so great. It's basic Christianity 101. We should look for the face of Christ on the 2.5 million starving Yemenites, or the 10's of thousands of coronavirus victims smothering to death. These are also the wounds of Jesus in our day but GerhardEbersoehn calls such thinking blasphemous because he is too busy worshipping scriptures to see its deeper realities, and wouldn't know a blasphemy from a hole in the ground.
The Pope is making a commentary on John 29, it is not a comprehensive analysis. GerhardEbersoehn accuses the Pope of blasphemy because it is a man made tradition to do so. It's also childish and uncalled for.
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