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A "Doubting Thomas" is a skeptic who refuses to believe without direct personal experience—a reference to the Gospel of John's depiction of the Apostle Thomas, who, in John's account, refused to believe the resurrected Jesus had appeared to the ten other apostles until he could see and feel Jesus' crucifixion wounds.
The song was most successful after it was recorded by B. J. Thomas and released as a single in 1970. It went to No. 9 on the Billboard Hot 100 singles chart and spent one week at No. 1 on the Easy Listening (adult contemporary) chart. [1] Thomas re-recorded "I Just Can't Help Believing" with Vince Gill for his 2013 album The Living Room ...
The Incredulity of Saint Thomas by Caravaggio, c. 1602. A doubting Thomas is a skeptic who refuses to believe without direct personal experience – a reference to the Gospel of John's depiction of the Apostle Thomas, who, in John's account, refused to believe the resurrected Jesus had appeared to the ten other apostles until he could see and feel Jesus's crucifixion wounds.
Thomas has shown his difficulties to understand Jesus in John 11:16 and John 14:15, and this time he hesitated when confronted with the resurrection account. [3] Thomas' emphatic disbelief of the disciples' testimony intensified his resolution to seek physical evidence to convince him that the risen Jesus was the Jesus he had known. [4]
According to the Gospel of John, Thomas the Apostle missed one of Jesus's appearances to the Apostles after his resurrection, and said "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 it." [2] A week later, Jesus appeared and told Thomas to touch him and stop ...
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B.J. Thomas released a version in 1968 as the B-side to his Top 40 hit The Eyes of a New York Woman. [5] Wanda Jackson recorded the song in 1961 for her album Right Or Wrong. The song was notably covered by Aretha Franklin in 1967, on the album Take It Like You Give It, her final album for Columbia Records before moving to Atlantic Records.
"Can't Believe" is a duet by American recording artists Faith Evans and Carl Thomas. It was written and produced by Sean Combs and Mario Winans for Evans' third studio album Faithfully (2001) and is built around a sample of "Phone Tap" as performed by The Firm and penned by Nas, Anthony Cruz, Chris Taylor, Jermaine Baxter, and Dr. Dre.