Posted on 03/28/2013 7:02:22 AM PDT by NYer
Ping!
Whether you believe the shroud is the genuine article or not, you should still find it a most fascinating relic.
Rub your face with paint or colored powder and wrap a towel around your head, as like a shroud.
Unroll the towel. Look. Does it look like you appear when looking at yourself in a mirror or photograph?
So true.
I've seen this shroud. It is aMAZing!
Just the fact that this is a 3D representation of a dead body on a 2D piece of cloth should quiet the skeptics. But it hasn’t. And it won’t.
Skeptics will be skeptics - Thomas had to put his fingers in the wounds. The simple fact remains that no one knows how the image on the Shroud was made - and even with today’s advances in technology, that image cannot be duplicated.
Faith, of course, does not depend on proof; quite the opposite. But the mystery of the Shroud is fascinating, and inspiring.
Once when reading an article on the Shroud I had my four year old daughter look at it’s picture. I asked her “Who do you think this is?” “Jesus” she said and went back to playing.
Faith as a child...
Yep. I understand doubt. Every thinking person should be critical and discerning. However some people can be so inconsistent. They can reject christ’s resurrection or something like the shroud yet believe 9/11 was an inside job.
Thank for that story alone gives me faith in our future.
Relics are destructible and there are so many destroyers around.
Put it away.
Ping for later
The cloth was woven in the Middle East in the 1st century
It came into contact with a man who was whipped, beaten, had puncture wounds consistent with a crown of thorns on his head, a side wound and puncture wounds on his wrist and legs consistent with Biblical story of the Crucifixion.
It was very unusual to whip a crucifixion victim and the story of Jesus was one of the few recorded instances in the historic record. The reason for this was because it caused a too speedy death with too little suffering
Interestingly, the puncture wounds on his arms go through his wrists and not hands which is contrary to long held assumptions but was consistent with forgotten historical facts on Roman Crucifixion.
The flower pollen was consistent with flowers used in Jewish Burial rites in the 1st Century . Some of the flowers were only present in Israel and the pollen documents an early spring time frame constant with Passover and Easter.
The blood is human blood from a person subjected to great trauma.
The image on the cloth is a 3-D Negative that cannot be duplicated by hand art.
No one can tell how the image was applied to the cloth.
The technique seems to be similar to the also unexplained image of the Virgin Mary given to Juan Diego at for Guadalupe.
A re-sewn section seems to have been used to bind the body and shroud.
Do the probability analysis
Your simplistic comment denigrates the scientists and scholars who have spent countless hours investigating the Shroud. It is the single most research object in science. In over 115 years, with an array of very sophisticated equipment, THEY have not been able to show it's not an true image. It is NOT a contact image and your idea that a shroud was "wrapped" like a towel is contrary to fact and 1st century Jewish burial customs. Learn the facts before you so blithely dismiss something so ignorantly when you literally don't know what you are talking about.
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There is no "re-sewn section". This is a theory put forward by a textile "expert," Dr. Mechthild Flury-Lemberg, who was responsible for the disastrous 2002 restoration of the Shroud in which the Shroud, under her direction was vacuumed, washed, and stretched! There is a folded over section that has been sewn sometime in antiquity for strengthening when displayed horizontally.
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