{
  "article": "<section class=\"plain-english-door\" aria-label=\"Introduction\">\n  <p class=\"plain-english-door__kicker\">Direct identity evidence</p>\n  <h3>Thomas addresses the risen Jesus as Lord and God.</h3>\n  <p class=\"plain-english-door__lead\">John 20:24-29 places a direct confession on Thomas's lips after the resurrection appearance: \"My Lord and my God.\" The row does not treat one Johannine scene as a free-standing proof of the Resurrection or the Trinity. It records a specific Christ-identity datum inside the canonical Logos family, with date, genre, and source caveats kept visible.</p>\n</section>\n\n<div class=\"detail-section-heading\">Observation</div>\n<div class=\"detail-article-block\">\n<p><strong>John 20 gives a direct identity signal, not merely a general admiration of Jesus.</strong> Thomas is not only convinced that Jesus is alive; the narrative climax presents him addressing Jesus with divine-language confession. Within John's Gospel, this sits near the stated purpose of the book and resonates with the Logos opening in John 1.</p>\n<p>This is not the same datum as John 1, Colossians 1, Hebrews 1, Revelation 5, or 1 Corinthians 8:6. Those rows address creation mediation, cosmic Christology, heavenly worship, and Shema-shaped confession. John 20 adds a narrative confession addressed to the risen Jesus.</p>\n</div>\n\n<div class=\"detail-section-heading\">What It Shows</div>\n<div class=\"detail-article-block\">\n<ul>\n<li>The Fourth Gospel presents direct worshipful confession addressed to Jesus.</li>\n<li>The confession strengthens Christ-identity and Logos pressure within the canonical witness.</li>\n<li>The text is especially relevant against merely-teacher, prophet-only, and thinly adoptionist readings of Jesus.</li>\n</ul>\n</div>\n\n<div class=\"detail-section-heading\">What It Does Not Show</div>\n<div class=\"detail-article-block\">\n<ul>\n<li>It does not independently prove the Resurrection event.</li>\n<li>It does not settle every authorship, dating, or compositional question about John.</li>\n<li>It does not erase Jewish monotheistic pressure; it must be read under that pressure.</li>\n<li>It should not stack freely with John 1 and the other Logos texts.</li>\n</ul>\n</div>\n\n<div class=\"detail-section-heading\">Bayesian Meaning</div>\n<div class=\"detail-article-block\">\n<p>The active weight is modest and dependency-capped: <strong>H-CHRIST-IDENTITY: +0.05 log10BF; H-CHRIST-AS-LOGOS: +0.04 log10BF</strong>. It is direct identity evidence, but it remains a sibling-support row in the Logos canonical synthesis cluster, not a new independent anchor.</p>\n</div>\n\n<div class=\"detail-section-heading\">Caveats</div>\n<div class=\"detail-article-block\">\n<ul>\n<li>John's genre, theological artistry, and compositional history matter.</li>\n<li>Dating and source questions affect how early this evidence can be pressed.</li>\n<li>Critical scholarship may read the confession as later Johannine theological development rather than a stenographic transcript.</li>\n<li>The row belongs in a cumulative, capped Christology case.</li>\n</ul>\n</div>",
  "axioms": [
    "A6",
    "A7"
  ],
  "bayes_factors": {
    "H-CHRIST-IDENTITY": {
      "log10BF": 0.05,
      "bf_min": 0.02,
      "bf_max": 0.07,
      "rationale": "John 20:24-29 presents Thomas addressing the risen Jesus as Lord and God, modestly supporting direct Christ-identity pressure while remaining capped for Johannine date, genre, and dependency with other high-Christology texts."
    },
    "H-CHRIST-AS-LOGOS": {
      "log10BF": 0.04,
      "bf_min": 0.01,
      "bf_max": 0.06,
      "rationale": "The confession coheres with John's Logos frame and the canonical Christ-as-Logos synthesis, but overlaps with John 1, Colossians 1, Hebrews 1, Revelation 5, and 1 Corinthians 8:6."
    }
  },
  "bf_status": "ready",
  "category": "Johannine Christology",
  "citations": [
    "John 20:24-29.",
    "Richard Bauckham, Jesus and the Eyewitnesses, 2nd ed. (Eerdmans, 2017).",
    "Richard Bauckham, Jesus and the God of Israel (Eerdmans, 2008).",
    "Larry W. Hurtado, Lord Jesus Christ: Devotion to Jesus in Earliest Christianity (Eerdmans, 2003).",
    "Craig S. Keener, The Gospel of John: A Commentary (Baker Academic, 2003).",
    "D. A. Carson, The Gospel According to John (Eerdmans, 1991).",
    "Raymond E. Brown, The Gospel According to John XIII-XXI (Doubleday, 1970), as critical Johannine scholarship."
  ],
  "counts_in_cache": true,
  "evidence_id": "E-SCR-JOHN20-THOMAS-CONFESSION",
  "visual_asset": {
    "src": "assets/evidence-viewer/evidence-images/thomas_s_confession_in_scripture.png",
    "title": "John 20: Thomas's confession and direct Christ identity visual overview",
    "alt": "AI-generated conceptual visualization for John 20: Thomas's confession and direct Christ identity. Illustrative only, not experimental data.",
    "caption": "AI-generated conceptual / comparative visualization ? illustrative only, not experimental data. Presented inside a Christian evidence map.",
    "width": 1448,
    "height": 1086
  },
  "hypothesis_ref": [
    "H-CHRIST-IDENTITY",
    "H-CHRIST-AS-LOGOS"
  ],
  "last_updated": "2026-05-30T00:00:00Z",
  "major_category": "Scripture / Text",
  "metadata": {
    "canonical_anchor": "E-SCR-JOHN1-LOGOS-ANCHOR",
    "cap_eligible": true,
    "cap_exempt_reason": null,
    "cap_family": "christ_identity_logos_canonical_synthesis",
    "cap_notes": "Capped sibling support inside the Logos canonical synthesis family. Do not stack freely with John 1, Colossians 1, Hebrews 1, Revelation 5, Philippians 2, or 1 Corinthians 8:6.",
    "cap_profile": "moderate_semi_independent",
    "category": "Johannine Christology",
    "counts_as_direct_christ_identity": true,
    "counts_as_direct_logos_synthesis": true,
    "counts_as_direct_resurrection": false,
    "dependency_cluster": "johannine_logos_identity",
    "dependency_cluster_id": "johannine_logos_identity",
    "dependency_cluster_label": "Johannine Logos and divine identity",
    "dependency_cluster_role": "sibling_support",
    "dependency_role": "sibling_support",
    "dependency_weight_class": "semi_independent",
    "directness": "direct",
    "evidence_function": "direct_identity",
    "governance_reviewed": "2026-05-28",
    "last_updated": "2026-05-30",
    "major_category": "Scripture / Text",
    "rev": 1,
    "scoring_note": "Small direct-identity and Logos support only; not direct Resurrection proof and not an independent Logos anchor.",
    "source_note": "Primary text is John 20:24-29. Requires Johannine genre, date, source, and theological-composition caveats.",
    "source_status": "source_review_pending",
    "sub_category": "Johannine Christology",
    "stage": "stage6"
  },
  "positive_apologetic": {
    "label": "Direct identity signal",
    "title": "The confession is addressed to Jesus.",
    "key_point": "John 20 is not only saying that Thomas believed Jesus was alive. The narrative gives a direct confession to Jesus as Lord and God.",
    "conversation_move": "Use this as one governed piece in the Logos family. Pair it with John 1, Revelation 5, Colossians 1, Hebrews 1, and 1 Corinthians 8 rather than making it carry the whole Christology case.",
    "caveat": "Johannine date, genre, and theology matter. The row is capped sibling support, not a standalone proof."
  },
  "scripture_passage": "John 20:24-29",
  "source_note": "Use John 20:24-29 with Johannine genre/date controls and both supportive and critical scholarship on Thomas's confession and Johannine Christology.",
  "status": "active",
  "sub_category": "Johannine Christology",
  "summary": "Datum: John 20:24-29 presents Thomas confessing the risen Jesus as 'My Lord and my God.'",
  "tags": [
    "Christology",
    "Logos",
    "John",
    "Thomas",
    "Scored"
  ],
  "tilt": "positive",
  "title": "John 20: Thomas's confession and direct Christ identity",
  "type": "atomic"
}