And just to point out to everyone, this Italian “Scientist” (in quotes because the release of this information in the press, not in peer reviewed scientific journals) is soon releasing a book on the subject. Very suspicious timing, don’t you think?I’d point you to an editorial written by Barry Schwortz, the official photographer on the STURP team that examined the shroud in 1978 entitled Science by Press Release? An Editorial Response by Barrie Schwortz - shroud.com/latebrak.htm
According to Barry Schwortz (I only recently got educated a little on it), this happens every time the shroud is going to be on public display.I’d say the timing is about as suspicious as this scientist making his reproduction just before the shroud is going to be on view again, this Spring! Kind like the History Channel airing the Judas ‘gospel’ right before Easter.:tsktsk:
he also wore a suit and blesses out troops.One thing that I wonder about, don’t historians say that it’s more likely that Christ had short hair? The image in the shroud appears to have long hair.
Eh?he also wore a suit and blesses out troops.
Well, I do know a thing or two about the shroud - I am the webmaster for ShroudNM.com. The claim that the shroud was reproduced is a false claim. What was stated in the article indicates this. The image was not made with the substance the Italian claims to have made it with. In 1978 when the scientific team analyzed the actual shroud they tested for this and prove this without any shadow of doubt. He added fake blood after creating the image, but we know for a fact the blood was on the shroud before the image was created because in places where the blood was removed, there is no image underneath. If you want the real science of the shroud, go to shroud.com and read the scientific-reviewed papers. This scientist has an axe to grind and is conveniently releasing a book on the subject. Also should be noted this ‘scientist’ released his ‘findings’ to the popular press, not peer-reviewed scientific journals and did not even show the results, he simply made a claim he reproduced it with absolutely no proof. This is not science, it’s tom-foolery. Did he happen to mention he’s an atheist funded by atheists and agnostics who would love for people to buy his book? Hogwash!I’m kind of indifferent to the shroud…if the church doesnt accept it as ‘genuine’ then its not like they (the guys who reproduced it) are telling us anything new.
But I will note something…God made man in his image. We have a higher intelligence. (not higher than god’s, but then the other animals etc of this world). It doesnt surprise me that as we evolve our technology has come as far as it has…And, it doesnt surprise me that we have now the technology to ‘reproduce’ something…I mean, they’re ‘reproducing’ people like clones n stuff…
But, did they have that technology back then? Could someone have done it then? Maybe they coulda I dont know too much about the whole shroud thing…
It’s very easy imo to believe the image on the shroud is Jesus. There is nothing else like it for one thing. The details that parallel what happened to Jesus. And not what we thought happened to Jesus but what we have come to know, the man on the shroud seems to keep pace with the developement of understanding. The only shadow of doubt for me is the possibility that it is the image of another man who experienced a scourging, punches to the face, a crown of lacerations and puntures, a wound to the side that penetrated to the heart, I think they have found the clear liquid that surrounds th heart uder this kind of severe stress. so what would look like water and blood came from his wounded side as well. The concidence that two men suffered so similarly and that it would be recorded and saved on cloth are alot to chock up to conincidence. Perhaps a man was purposely executed in the manner Jesus was and they buried him in this cloth. Why haven’t more images of peoples bodies on cloth been found? I don’t know of any others. Just too much there to believe it isn’t or have much doubt really.and the light comes from above which is what John saw when he peeked into the tomb…Jesus was risen just over the slab then disappeared…thats why the light is above,His hair flows,no indentation on the back of HIs head,shoulders,and heels…Jesus is risen…Pas