Maybe you should stop questioning and start believing in Jesus
2006-10-29 13:16:08 · 13 answers · asked by Chelsey m 2 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
http://www.shroudforum.com/ this is where i got my info from
2006-10-29 13:28:17 · update #1
Chelsey I am afraid many non-believers are a lost cause. If you bring up a point, they will counter it with something else. I have given up usually even looking at questions in the category.
2006-10-29 13:20:54 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
Actually, Chelsey, people should START questioning, and then if they are really questioning then they WILL start to believe in Jesus, because He is the only answer (and Christianity is the only system of belief) that makes any sense, the only answer that works.
From what I have read it is very likely the shroud of Turin is not Jesus' burial shroud. It could be, possibly, but it doesn't matter.
Christianity doesn't stand or fall on some shroud somewhere, it stands or falls on Jesus' resurrection from the dead, which is a historically established fact.
For a site that gives AWESOME answers and shows that Christianity is the system of belief that makes the most sense and fits the evidence the best, go to:
http://www.answersingenesis.org
check out that site and do some exploring of it (even using their search engine) to find the answers about life and how and why we are here.
2006-10-30 12:10:20 · answer #2 · answered by Wayne A 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The shroud of Turin HAS been explained in countless books and scientific treatise. It was created some time around the 13th- 14th century. For more information on this you should try for instance "The Second Messiah" by Knight and Llomas. But hey, why look towards truth and research and fact when you have belief. Better yet, try "The God Delusion" by Richard Dawkins or www.richarddawkins.net
2006-10-29 21:22:30 · answer #3 · answered by monkeymagic6966 2 · 2⤊ 0⤋
I don't need a visible object to believe in Jesus Christ or in his teachings. The so-called shroud of Turin means absolutely nothing to me. True Christians "are walking by faith, not by sight." 2 Cor. 5:7.
2006-10-29 21:30:12 · answer #4 · answered by LineDancer 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Skeptics believe that the shroud of Turin is just another religious relic invented to beef up the pilgrimage business or impress infidels. (Another equally famous painting, also claimed to have miraculously appeared on a cloth, cropped up in Mexico in the 16th century, "Our Lady of Guadalupe.") The case for the forged shroud is made most forcefully by Joe Nickell in his Inquest On The Shroud Of Turin, which was written in collaboration with a panel of scientific and technical experts. The author claims that historical, iconographic, pathological, physical, and chemical evidence points to inauthenticity. The shroud is a 14th century painting, not a two-thousand year-old cloth with Christ's image.
One theory is that "a male model was daubed with paint and wrapped in the sheet to create the shadowy figure of Christ."* The model was covered in red ochre, "a pigment found in earth and widely used in Italy during the Middle Ages, and pressed his forehead, cheekbones and other parts of his head and body on to the linen to create the image that exists today. Vermilion paint, made from mercuric sulphide, was then splashed onto the image's wrists, feet and body to represent blood."
Walter McCrone analyzed the shroud and found traces of chemicals that were used in "two common artist's pigments of the 14th century, red ochre and vermilion, with a collagen (gelatin) tempera binder" (McCrone 1998). He makes his complete case that the shroud is a medieval painting in Judgment Day for the Shroud of Turin (March 1999). For his work, McCrone was awarded the American Chemical Society's Award in Analytical Chemistry in 2000.
2006-10-29 21:23:28 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
Carbon dating has proven that the Shroud of Turin is from about the year 400. Since then the Catholic Church doesn't show it anymore. Yea, they blew it and they know it.
2006-10-29 22:05:17 · answer #6 · answered by The professor 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I'm a believer and don't see how the shroud has anything to do with believing in Jesus or salvation.
It doesn't. Don't sweat the small stuff. We deserve Hell. Jesus died on the cross so that we don't get what we deserve so long as we believe in him and what he did.... Not the validity of some shroud.
2006-10-29 21:21:52 · answer #7 · answered by ScottyJae 5 · 1⤊ 1⤋
what dose the shroud of turin have to do with Christianity?
ok so their was a shroud used to cover a dead guy what proof is that ?
2006-10-29 21:19:00 · answer #8 · answered by Gamla Joe 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Years ago, it was discovered to be a hoax. Not really as old as Jesus Christ according to the findings. As for me, be it a fake or not, my faith in Him will still be the same. We don't have to see God to know that He's real. He is very real. We will all meet Him when we die; if only all of us believe and accept Him.
2006-10-29 21:25:44 · answer #9 · answered by ? 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
the should of turin is the single most scientificalloy examined thing in history!! Way way back when, people put it in boiling oil and stuff to seeif it was reaqlly from God and stuff like that.. no one can explain it....Good point
2006-10-29 21:21:34 · answer #10 · answered by Shane 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋