#2197 your post said Thomas was saying Lord or Master or some kind of honorific title. But Thomas used “theos” which is not Lord or Master but “God” or a “god.”
#2255 your post refers Thomas saying “god” instead of “God.” That would imply the Son of God is a created Being and not the Creator.
Please choose one. Is Thomas calling Jesus “theos” a god or do you have a different lexicon showing theos as Master/Lord?
FRiend, the explanation is there, in post #2,255, if you care to study & understand.
You start at John 10:34 which refers specifically to Psalms 82:6 and can be applied also to Psalm 45:6.
That is the context for John 20:28.
Here's my conclusion: in John 20:28 Thomas refers to Jesus in the same sense as Jesus refers to himself in John 10:34, using the sense of "gods" from Psalms 82:6.
How could it possibly be otherwise?
To me that makes perfectly good sense, especially since it reconfirms what the gospel writer John himself says in John 20:31.
And it takes 2 John 1:9 as cautionary.
Of course, I don't expect you to agree, am only asking you to treat this view with more respect than we've seen elsewhere: it's called, "God Damned Heresy".
My ideas here reflect religious views of our Founding Fathers, plus around 50 million believers today who fall under the category of "restoration Christians".
I don't think they deserve the disrespect.