(June 26, 2014 at 5:41 am)Tonus Wrote: If we go by the Bible, we can assume that Thomas either directly witnessed --or got eyewitness accounts of-- Jesus resurrecting the dead, and heard Jesus predict his own resurrection. Jesus chided Thomas for not trusting that he would be true to his word.
True. However, I was approaching the issue at the definition level. The doubting Thomas example was to show biblical faith in action, well the direct opposite.
8000 years before Jesus, the Egyptian god Horus said, "I am the way, the truth, the life."