{"id":6727,"date":"2020-05-08T14:32:24","date_gmt":"2020-05-08T19:32:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/?p=6727"},"modified":"2020-05-08T14:33:47","modified_gmt":"2020-05-08T19:33:47","slug":"kermit-zarley-on-my-lord-and-my-god","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/kermit-zarley-on-my-lord-and-my-god\/","title":{"rendered":"Kermit Zarley on &#8220;My Lord and my God.&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"400\" height=\"290\" src=\"http:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Thomas-my-Lord-and-my-God.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-6730\" srcset=\"https:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Thomas-my-Lord-and-my-God.jpg 400w, https:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Thomas-my-Lord-and-my-God-300x218.jpg 300w, https:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Thomas-my-Lord-and-my-God-90x65.jpg 90w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">What did Thomas mean in <a title=\"John 20\" href=\"https:\/\/www.biblegateway.com\/passage\/?search=John+20\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">John 20:28<\/a>?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>Jesus\u2019 words, <strong>\u201cthe Father is in Me,\u201d<\/strong> must have left a strong impression on Thomas. Indeed, these words are the key to correctly understand what doubting Thomas later meant when he said to Jesus,<strong> \u201cmy God.\u201d<\/strong> When Thomas said that, he was acknowledging what Jesus had taught him ten days prior, that God the Father is in Jesus.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Author Kermit Zarley gives<strong> <a title=\"Kermit Zarley on John 20\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/kermitzarleyblog\/2013\/11\/thomas-said-to-christ-my-lord-and-my-god-he-meant-gods-in-christ-to-which-we-should-nod\/\" target=\"_blank\">a convincing reading<\/a> of this famous episode<\/strong>. He reads it in context, and I think what he argues here supports my understanding of this text, which is that Thomas is making a <strong>double confession<\/strong>, of Jesus as Lord and of the one God who is &#8220;in&#8221; Jesus, a confession like that of <strong><a title=\"podcast on one God and one Lord - 1 Corinthians 8:6\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"http:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/archives\/5516\" target=\"_blank\">Paul in 1 Corinthians 8<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Yes, Thomas<a href=\"https:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/podcast-224-biblical-words-for-god-and-for-his-son-part-1-god-and-god-in-the-bible\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"> <em>could<\/em> have addressed <strong>Jesus as &#8220;God,&#8221;<\/strong> <\/a>without thereby assuming Jesus to be the one God, <a href=\"https:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/god-and-his-son-the-logic-of-the-new-testament\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">that is, the Father<\/a>. (See <a title=\"post on John 10\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"http:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/archives\/6656\" target=\"_blank\">Jesus&#8217;s own statement in John 10<\/a> on that point.) But overall, I think that Zarley&#8217;s reading is more likely, for the reasons he states.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a title=\"Kermit Zarley on John 20\" href=\"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/kermitzarleyblog\/2013\/11\/thomas-said-to-christ-my-lord-and-my-god-he-meant-gods-in-christ-to-which-we-should-nod\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Check out his <strong>whole post<\/strong> here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>He said this to Jesus. But was he also addressing the God in Jesus?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6730,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"off","neve_meta_content_width":0,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[21,16,15,33,8,7,43],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6727","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bible","category-books","category-christology","category-incarnation","category-linkage","category-quotes","category-unitarianism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6727","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6727"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6727\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42364,"href":"https:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6727\/revisions\/42364"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6730"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6727"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6727"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6727"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}