John 20:24–29
The Bible4Jesus.com Podcast
About this episode
We live in an age that has made a god out of the five senses. But in reality, it is the height of arrogance. It is the creature telling the Creator the only acceptable terms under which he will deign to believe. It is man in the dock, with God on the witness stand, being cross-examined by a hostile attorney. But that is to read our modern therapeutic categories back into the text. He was not a humble seeker; he was a defiant holdout. His problem was not a lack of evidence; the testimony of ten of his closest friends, apostles all, was weighty evidence indeed. His problem was a rebellious heart that refused to submit to any authority but his own sensory experience. This passage is therefore not a gentle commendation of asking tough questions. It is a gracious, yet firm, confrontation with the sin of unbelief.