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“This Article refers to a new book that claims the Shroud of Turin is the REAL DEAL... and more importantly, IS THE BASIS for the claim that Jesus of Nazareth rose from the dead... because The IMAGE ON THE SHROUD is what the apostles saw and mistook for the risen Jesus!”

So the author claims that Jesus Christ did not really rise from the dead, but the Apostles thought he had because they saw His image in the Shroud? Did the Shroud walk along the road to Emmaus, disguised as some other type of cloth, and speak to the disciples? Did St. Thomas put his finger through a hole in the Shroud?

I think that the evidence provided by the Shroud itself, as well as its history, makes it more likely than not that it is, indeed, Jesus Christ’s burial shroud (and it is pretty much *impossible* for it to be a hoax as most people believe). But the auhor’s theory that the image on the Shroud is the basis for the “claim” (a word that no Christian would use to describe the Resurrection) that Jesus Christ rose from the dead is absolutely ridiculous.