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Thanks for the ping!
I was able recently to catch a part of the History Channel's "Face of Jesus" show.
It was very impressive, and I especially noted how they addressed the major concern I've expressed here -- in my eyes, the Shroud Image does not "look Jewish" enough.
Well, their "real face of Jesus" certainly DID look "Jewish enough" to me.
And they explained in great detail how they, so to speak, reverse engineered from the image that we SEE to the face which produced it.
So, point is, the face we see on the Shroud is not itself the "face of Jesus," but rather was produced by another face which looks very much like I would have expected.
They were also careful to point out that the Shroud can never be "proved" authentic scientifically, and that the Church does NOT require belief in the Shroud as an article of faith.
The most science can do is suggest stronger or weaker probabilities.
The Church merely points to the evidence which exists and says, "you decide."
If the cloth is definitively dated 1st Century, well, that would make the probabilities much stronger, imho.
