@BowsacNoodle oh yeah, Thomas not believing at first sure was a sign of unbelief, but i think it's also important to focus on a lesson we can learn from him.

the difference between wanting knowledge and wanting proof.

i certaintly didn't believe in God i would say 5 years ago (i would say since i have been agnostic before i converted).

but the thing that made me go insane is that i can't get a straight answer of whether there is a God or there isn't, eventually i started researching and after reflecting on my life and the world around me, i realized there is, but in the beginning it was this demand for knowledge that got me further.

my faith got multiplied in strength after i set on it questions (not in a way testing God) because i believed that there would be an answer to every one of these questions, and that it would stay perfectly consistent, and everytime i did i would get an Answer that makes sense and ties it stronger together, my faith got stronger because i wanted to believe in it.

i realized especially how amazing it is when other people, after they found out i am converting, asked me a lot of these "atheist gotcha" questions, and i was just able to answer them all, and i was able to learn more from my own answers there.

it *is* "written in our Hearts", without a doubt.