This is pretty disingenuous don't you think? In the same book a few chapters later we read: > Now Thomas, one of the twelve, called the Twin, was not with them

This is pretty disingenuous don't you think? In the same book a few chapters later we read: > Now Thomas, one of the twelve, called the Twin, was not with them when Jesus came. So the other disciples told him, “We have seen the Lord.” But he said to them, “Unless I see in his hands the mark of the nails, and place my finger into the mark of the nails, and place my hand into his side, I will never believe.” John 20:24-25 If that's not encouraging engaging with doubt I don't know what is. > If that's not an effort to restrict doubt, then what is? I can tell you that 1 + 1 = 2 and you can still doubt me. Just because you doubt me it doesn't make that statement any less true. Also, me stating that fact isn't me restricting doubt, it's just me stating a fact. If Jesus was God, and what He says here is true, He's stating a fact. You can choose to believe or not to believe, or doubt or not to doubt.