Post by ResLight on Oct 20, 2023 13:05:04 GMT -5
Shroud of Turin
The 40-member Shroud of Turin Research Project tentatively concludes the image on the shroud is of a scourged crucified man. The blood stains are real, but it is not possible for scientists to decide if the image is Jesus Christ's. Nonetheless, a former member of the team is co-author of a book claiming the long linen cloth is
Christ's burial shroud.
The holy scriptures have something to say on the matter. When Lazarus arose from the dead his face was bound with a napkin separate from the grave clothes. Jo 11:44. In Jesus' tomb the napkin that had bound his head was found separate from the other grave clothes. Jo 20:7. Since a one piece burial cloth does not fit that description, the Turin Shroud is not Christ's. (Footnote – 1 Jo 19:40 also says Jesus' body was "wound" in linen clothes (plural), whereas the Turin shroud had been stretched lengthwise. "Similarly, the Greek m Mt 27:59 means rolled in a clean linen cloth; so Thayer.)
The shroud may be of some interest, however. It is another stark witness to the horrid Roman practice of torture and death by crucifixion.
- Contnbuted
As appeared in "Beauties of the Truth", November 1981.
www.beautiesofthetruth.org/Archive/Library/Doctrine/Mags/Bot/80s/NOV81.PDF
The 40-member Shroud of Turin Research Project tentatively concludes the image on the shroud is of a scourged crucified man. The blood stains are real, but it is not possible for scientists to decide if the image is Jesus Christ's. Nonetheless, a former member of the team is co-author of a book claiming the long linen cloth is
Christ's burial shroud.
The holy scriptures have something to say on the matter. When Lazarus arose from the dead his face was bound with a napkin separate from the grave clothes. Jo 11:44. In Jesus' tomb the napkin that had bound his head was found separate from the other grave clothes. Jo 20:7. Since a one piece burial cloth does not fit that description, the Turin Shroud is not Christ's. (Footnote – 1 Jo 19:40 also says Jesus' body was "wound" in linen clothes (plural), whereas the Turin shroud had been stretched lengthwise. "Similarly, the Greek m Mt 27:59 means rolled in a clean linen cloth; so Thayer.)
The shroud may be of some interest, however. It is another stark witness to the horrid Roman practice of torture and death by crucifixion.
- Contnbuted
As appeared in "Beauties of the Truth", November 1981.
www.beautiesofthetruth.org/Archive/Library/Doctrine/Mags/Bot/80s/NOV81.PDF
