Posted on 03/25/2012 5:04:13 PM PDT by Coleus
“Yeah, well, guys like you frustrate the hell out of me, in return. No matter how many times it’s said, no matter what you hear or read time and time again (e.g. it is NOT about validating your faith, it is NOT to be worshiped, etc., etc., ad nauseum), you and your ilk always just HAVE to post the same old, tired nonsense.”
I agree with you—I absolutely cannot fathom why such people would post on a thread about the Shroud. We really don’t need to hear their whiny, immature posts about us “worshipping” the Shroud and about how their faith is so superior to ours.....
Thanks for the ping and the post.
Thanks be to God that He also uses physical elements to help our human understanding. These “signs” deepen our faith.
Barrie S. has chronicled all of his own work and research on the Shroud along with any and all other research - he updates constantly -
He has compiled and added to his web site for decades - if you haven’t already, you might want to bookmark it for it is quite massive in it’s information
One of the earliest ? depictions of Jesus? “Isa” discovered in Turkey in 2002 - dated to 1st/2nd Cent.
As a portrait artist, I have followed ‘the face of Jesus” for decades - particularly the iconic paintings, whose similarities point to one origin.
That would seem to be The Shroud.
The image in The Shroud, in the beginning, was much clearer than we see it now.
A few Easters ago, Nat Geo did a documentary on The Shroud, ending with a forensically aided depiction of what the man in The Shroud looked like. (”The Real Face Of Jesus?”)
No surprise. He looks like he has been depicted for 2,000 years.
A few years ago, others decided they’d deduce what He must have looked like, based on a skull from the area and time of His life. They came up with a short, swarthy, man with absolutely no resemblance to what we are familiar with.
What was their reasoning or agenda, I wonder? After all, look at the people in a supermarket at any given time. They are all sizes, all colors, widely differing skull structures, hair, eye color - etc - That’s like digging one of them up 2,000 yrs from now and saying ‘this is what (some famous person of today) looked like. Totally bogus.
The newly discovered tile:
http://shroudofturin.wordpress.com/2011/05/18/paper-chase-face-of-the-god-man/
The iconic connection to the Shroud.
http://www.shroudofturin4journalists.com/pantocrator.htm
How convenient.
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