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Blessed are those who determine truth based on wishful thinking. That's like trying to pay for your Subway sandwich by wishing you had $5.00.

You quoted verse 29, and not 30. In verse 29, Jesus is responding to doubting Thomas's belated faith. Having refused to believe that Jesus had been resurrected a week earlier, Jesus then suddenly appeared in a room with locked doors, where the disciples were. He told Thomas to put his finger in the spear wound in his side, to behold his pierced hands, to stop doubting and to believe.

Faced with such incontrovertible proof that Jesus had indeed risen from the dead, Thomas exclaimed, "My Lord and my God!" Jesus accepted this adulation and did not rebuke Thomas. He just said, "Because you have seen me, you have believed; blessed are those who have not seen and yet have believed."

That's why billions of people over the last 2,000 years know they are truly blessed, because they have also believed in the risen Christ, even though they never had the massive amount of proof that the apostle Thomas had. So, what Jesus said is true. It's more a promise than a 'rule', however!

This isn't a "rule". Jesus told this to Thomas (who doubted Jesus after He was resurrected that it was Him) that Thomas only believed it was Jesus after Jesus proved to Thomas that it was Him. Jesus tells Thomas that those who have not seen Jesus at all, yet still believe in Him, are the blessed ones. And by the way, this is John 20:29, not John 20:30.

why is there a dude sucking on a dildo in your avatar ?

im guessing thats you fella........not very flattering to say the least.

EDIT @mario : i thought you might tear in to me due to my sarcastic remark but you didnt and i apologize for that.

but dude.......DO NOT call me american. i am canadian ! windsor, ontario to be exact.

my fathers family came to canada from flanders in 1690 and my mothers side arrived even earlier 1677 from what is now normandy. so i am 100% hockey loving, toque wearing, poutine eating canadian. i probably have more in common with you than i have with my gun loving neighbours to the north (detroit, michigan).

im guessing youre a brit and me calling you a scotty or an irishman would be the equivalent.

i believe in your part of the world the proper salutation would be cheers......so cheers mate.

Christianity loves gullible people. And John 20: 30-31 actually says

"And many other signs truly did Jesus in the presence of his disciples, which are not written in this book:

But these are written, that ye might believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God; and that believing ye might have life through his name."

It's a classic con. "I can tell you're smart and very trustworthy, you can trust me."

There are countless things a person could believe without seeing. Many of them mutually exclusive. Most of them harmful to others and/or self-destructive.

1 Kings 18:16-40, did Elijah say "blessed are those who have not seen and yet have believed" to the followers of Baal Hadad? Or did he murder them?

This is NOT a rule, as you say.

Jesus is saying that we are blessed, if we are born to just KNOW that GOD exisits, without being shown proofs. So then, we as little children, just believe naturally, and have been blessed.

Others will need proof...as you know, some just "know" that Jesus is our saviour.

I can say that having faith is sometimes better than having seen first.

I like surprises

It applies to every Christian after 70 AD (and most before that date).

I can safely say that John didn't want to be fact-checked.