http://www.world-mysteries.com/sar_2.htm
this is a website to explain what it "is" and all, personally i have no idea if it is what they say it is or not...i just want to know what you think, please dont attack me for asking this opinion question..
2007-01-14 15:40:05 · 13 answers · asked by heather feather 3 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Jesus couldnt had taken the nails threw the hands...they would have ripped right through, hands could have not had born the weight of the body as the wrists could have.
2007-01-14 15:51:57 · update #1
Well. Hexusmoon is right that people believe what they want to believe regardless of anything else.
The shroud is definitely a fake -- That's not how people were buried in Jesus' day. Read the account of His friend Lazarus dying and being buried, and having Jesus raise him back to life. (I believe it's in John chapter 11.) When Jesus called Lazarus out of his tomb, He had to tell people to cut him free -- Lazarus was buried in the way Jesus was, in stripS of cloth, not "a strip of cloth".
Or read John 19, where it describes Jesus being buried:
Nicodemus came as well--the same one who had first come to Jesus at night-time--and he brought a mixture of myrrh and aloes, weighing about a hundred pounds. They took the body of Jesus and bound it in linen cloths with the spices, following the jewish burial custom.
What they did was take strips of linen and a mixture of spices (about 100 pounds of it, according to what it says), and they wrap the body like a mummy, with the spices in between and all over the body itself.
Now I ask you: does the "shroud of Turin" look like it fits that description? Or ever held 100 pounds of spices smeared all over the dead body?
No, I didn't think so either.
Barjesse37
2007-01-14 16:01:57 · answer #1 · answered by barjesse37 3 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Why should anyone attack you for asking a perfectly valid question?
The Shroud is a fake. It is not known to have existed until the Middle Ages, the golden age for religious fakery. Carbon 14 tests have shown it is several hundred years old, not two thousand. It does not adhere to the description in the Gospels, which say it was wrapped around the body, with a separate cloth for the head. It is a drape, not a wrap. And as a drape, if it had been on an actual 3 dimensional body it would have been distorted when laid flat, with the side images of the face sitting aside the full face image. But it isn't!
It was probably produced by the effect of a stained glass image of Jesus reflecting an image on a cloth and selectively bleaching a negative image.
2007-01-14 23:56:13 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 0⤋
1st I will say I am a devote Christian. I believe it was created by the church. My reason? God's church is perfect but people are not. For many centuries religious artifacts or relics were used to lure believers to their particular church where monetary offerings where accepted. The offering were to be used to help pilgrims and the poor as well as pay off debts the church incurred. Much money was skimmed from the pot and used personally in most cases by the priests. The bigger the relic meant even more pilgrims and more money. A test to this would be "why haven't the shroud been sent out to be seen by the general populous"? It is because if they lost it to thieves they would lose their profits from it. We are not to worship idols or things but to worship Heavenly Father only.
2007-01-14 23:54:22 · answer #3 · answered by bummer101467 <2HeartKnight> 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
People who have enough faith can obtain miracles from it whether it's real or not. So why worry about it one way or another?
An author, Beausinger, wrote a fiction series based on the shroud, called the Christ Clone Trilogy. Unlike the more famous (and lucrative) Left Behind Series and the DaVinci Code, this author footnoted all of his research. A good interesting read. If you can find it.
2007-01-14 23:50:27 · answer #4 · answered by angrygramma 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Scientists have not been able to prove it is a fraud.
They have been unable to prove how the picture got there, and they cannot prove if it is real.
I will go by the conclusions of the scientsts, but they have no conclusions, just more questions.
My opinion is that is the authentic burial shroud of Jesus. The blood type (AB) is a match to other miracles. Such as this one:
http://www.therealpresence.org/eucharst/mir/lanciano.html
2007-01-14 23:53:06 · answer #5 · answered by Br. Dymphna S.F.O 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
I don't think it really matters at all whether it is authentic or not as long as it causes people to consider Jesus and what the shroud symbolizes. It's the message that counts! PEACE!!!
2007-01-14 23:47:03 · answer #6 · answered by David H 4 · 1⤊ 1⤋
They used it to cover a man, possibly named Jesus, who may or may not have been God's son.
2007-01-14 23:50:23 · answer #7 · answered by * 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
I think it's real because of the evidence that they have found and I am a Christian. The evidence aligns with the Word of God.
2007-01-14 23:46:25 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 3⤋
I don't believe it is true. the nails where in Jesus hands not His wrists.
2007-01-14 23:43:58 · answer #9 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 4⤋
I think it's fake. It's a pretty good fake, but a fake nonetheless.
2007-01-14 23:43:42 · answer #10 · answered by i luv teh fishes 7 · 2⤊ 1⤋