Hello John and Doves,
I've always believed the
Shroud of Turin to be the linen cloth that Jesus' body was
wrapped in and that the image on it appeared - like a photo
- because of the energy used for resurrecting His
body. Like a powerful EMF of sorts, leaving a reverse
image of the body on the linen cloth. I see it as an
amazing, mysterious "gift" from Jesus to His
followers. Scientists still do not know how it was
made - people have been fascinated by it for centuries.
Fay linked the DailyMail.com
23 August, 2024 article - "Scientists are calling for a new
analysis of the Shroud of Turin amid a seemingly growing
body of evidence that challenges the idea it's a fake."
I certainly agree with
Fay. Interesting timing that scientists are calling
for new analysis - with everything going on. This is
hitting headline news now in the U.S. too.
Fay wrote, "This must be by
the Hand of Almighty God. Which means that our Lord's return
is nigh." I certainly agree. Something is
up. Because, why now is this news going viral?
This is catching people's attention, after years of little
news.
Other news has come
out too about the Shroud - and it's from 2022 testing -
and it's just now MSM in the U.S.:
"The Shroud of Turin remains
one of the most studied and debated artifacts in history."
The Shroud of Turin was
first on public display in the 1300s. "It has been
preserved in the Cathedral of San Giovanni Battista in
Turin, since 1578." A Catholic Bishop once identified it as
a fake - a "cunning" painting.
Italian scientists at
Italy's Institute of Crystallography of he National Research
Council, have dated the cloth to 'around 2,000 years ago' -
"consistent with the era of Jesus". And with the
dating to the time of Jesus, this "supports the theory that
the bloodstained pattern on the shroud could indeed have
been left by Jesus' body after His crucifixion."
"The cloth itself reveals
faint, brownish images of a gaunt man, standing between 5'7"
and 6' tall, with markings that correspond to the
crucifixion wounds described in the Bible, including thorn
marks on the head, lacerations on the back, and bruises on
the shoulders. These details align with the biblical
account of Jesus' suffering, suggesting that the man
depicted on the shroud endured similar torture."
A 1988 carbon dating test
should the fabric to have originated "between 1260 and 1390
A.D. This finding was based on the decay of carbon-14,
a radioactive isotope, which led many to dismiss the shroud
as a medieval forgery."
New testing, involving the
dating of the degradation of cellulose in the linen cloth,
using wide-angle X-ray scattering (WAXS), dates the shroud
to the first century A.D.. They also compared the shroud's
cellulose degradation to that of other linens,
one such linen found at Masada, Israel. The
degradation was consistent.
And they compared the
degradation to linen from the 1260 - 1390s - no similarities
were found.
It's interesting timing that
this testing is being reported on now - the
results of new testing was reported back in 2022
- but it's just now hitting MSM in the U.S. Looks
like it hit the U.S. news on or about August 21, 2024.
Newsweek reported on this
Shroud Study in this Aug 21, 2024 article:
"The authors (of the study)
said the results of their analysis were "fully
compatible" with analogous measurements obtained from a
linen sample whose dating, according to historical
records, is A.D 55 -74 and consistent with the
hypothesis that the Shroud is a 2,000 year old
relic." The authors suggest further testing for
confirmation of their results.
Turin
Shroud Study Claims Controversial Cloth Does Date to
Time of Jesus - Newsweek
The
Shroud of Turin Tour in the U.S.:
I remember visiting The Shroud
of Turin tour back in the late 1980s when it was in Atlanta,
Georgia. Scientists had done a lot of tests recently
on the Shroud and reported their results in this tour.
They approached the Shroud like it was a crime scene and
they were forensic scientists.
We were told that some of
the scientists came to this study believing the Shroud was a
'fake' and that there were atheists in their group - so the
study's findings were reported with as little bias as
possible as some were sure it would test as a fake.
They noted that there was no
decay on the linen from the body and the image showed no
body decay; leading them to the conclusion that the body
'disappeared' before decay set in - decay would have been
expected after three days of death. Also, because none
of the blood clots were 'smeared' across the cloth - they
said the body had to just disappear They also
said that whatever made the image involved a LOT of energy -
and that this energy came from a short distance away from
the body. I think they said two feet? So the
body laid in the cloth, undisturbed, for up to three days
before it 'disappeared' due to a powerful external energy
source.
Scientists showed how they
tested the 'blood' on the Shroud - they said they expected
it to test as animal blood. They were shocked when the
test showed it was human blood. They showed the equipment
and testing being done and the results on the printouts -
the blood was human. (Years later, this article
reported another study showed that the bloodstains were
'unrealistic' and therefore the Shroud was probably a fake.)
Shroud
of Turin Is a Fake, Bloodstains Suggest | Live Science
They analyzed all the marks on the body - they
counted the number of times he was scourged, they
identified the instruments of the scourging, they
determined that two men whipped Him - one man was shorter
than the other; one man struck harder than the other they
counted the thorns in His head, the noted the nail prints
in his wrists and feet, the 'blood' at
his side due to piercing with something in the shape of a
spear-head - they were very detailed, - it was a coroner's
report. They saw the image of what they thought were
coins on His closed eyelids.
They added up all of the
details of what happened to Christ's body, even how his hair
would have looked during that time - from His arrest to the
crucifixion - - and compared them to what they found on the
body of the Shroud - their conclusion was that it
was statistically impossible for this image of be of any
body other than that of Jesus Christ. They had also
put all of the information of Jesus in a computer program
along with all the findings on the Shroud - the computer
calculated the probabilities and reported some
astronomically huge number that this Shroud could only be
that of Jesus Christ's.
The Blood On The
Shroud/Coins On The Eyelids:
In the above article, they
reported on another study done on the blood at the Institute
of Crystallography. They found "evidence of blood from
a torture victim on the Shroud, identifying substances like
creatinine and ferritin, which are typically present in
victims of sever trauma. These findings contradict the
theory that the image was painted by medieval forgers.
Beyond A Reasonable
Doubt:
It's amazing how many atheists are involved in the
testing - they want to prove it fake. But it keeps
coming up, time and time again, as real. And they
request 'more testing' to be conclusive.' Keeping it
an even bigger enigma.
It sure looks like a lot of
the testing and statistics has shown that this is indeed the
Shroud of Jesus Christ's - beyond a reasonable doubt.
And this later testing
hitting the news has created a "minor media firestorm".
Nothing happens by
coincidence...The Shroud of Turin is back on the front
page. God put it there.
Pray for the peace of
Jerusalem!
Maranatha!
Chance