No disrespect. This is simply a question. I am a Muslim and I dont understand what it is or the significance of it??? Im simply just asking.
2007-01-23 03:54:05 · 24 answers · asked by noori_unisa 3 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
The significance of the Shroud of Turin is that many Christians long to have something they can touch, or point to as something that was part of Jesus, or that He touched. Just as the Dome of the Rock is venerated as having been a Holy Place because of Muhammad being there.
But the piece of cloth itself is a fraud. The New Testament describes Nicodemus as having come to the tomb to anoint the body with 100 pounds of burial ointments. In essence, these ointments would have congealed, hardened, and been soaked into the burial clothe. The clothe would have become a casing in which the Body of Jesus lay. And this is in agreement with the burial practices of the day.
A small number of believers have been deceived by the Shroud of Turin.
2007-01-23 04:08:47 · answer #1 · answered by Bob L 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Reputedly Christ's burial cloth, the Shroud of Turin has been a hallowed religious relic since the Middle Ages. To believers it was divine proof the Christ was resurrected from the grave, to doubters it was evidence of human gullibility and one of the greatest hoaxes in the history of art. Can the truth be known?
http://www.mystae.com/restricted/reflections/messiah/sphysical.html
The Shroud: Physical Evidence
Forensic experts rule out the Shroud as a painting. How was it created?
http://www.mystae.com/restricted/reflections/messiah/shistory.html
History of the Shoud of Turin
It has not been proven false, or true. It is still being tested. There are too many questions that still has not been answered, even with all the testing the have done, they are still unanswered.
2007-01-23 04:05:23 · answer #2 · answered by Sierra Leone 6 · 4⤊ 1⤋
As they said, it was a burial cloth but the dating was wrong. There was a fire that damaged the shroud and the dating was thrown off because of that fire damage. They re-tested it again in an undamaged part and it came up to date from the first century. There are bishops that write about the shroud in the second and third centuries and beyond, so it is obvious the shroud has been in existence for a very long time.
2007-01-23 04:02:41 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋
It is said to be the cloth that Jesus was wrapped in after the crucifixion. It bears an image of his body in the fabric. Carbon dating has placed the creation of the cloth somewhere in the 1300's, making it a hoax according to some. The Shroud survived a fire and that MAY have thrown off the scietific conclusion.
2007-01-23 04:00:42 · answer #4 · answered by Draco Paladin 4 · 0⤊ 2⤋
It is supposedly the shroud/burrial cloth of Jesus. It has an image stained on it, thought to be the image of Christ. It is pretty fascinating whether you believe it is Jesus' cloth or not... it may or may not be fraudulant, or just someone elses cloth. It really doesnt hold and religious significance, where as no one is told to go worship it or consider it sacred but there is a lot of info and pictures of it on the web... Do a websearch on it.
2007-01-23 04:03:29 · answer #5 · answered by impossble_dream 6 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Some cullible Christians insist that it was the shroud Jesus was buried in and that the supernatural event of his resurrection burned his image into the cloth. It has been demonstrated that the Shroud is a mideaval pious fraud by careful testing of the shroud.
There were many such "Shrouds" floating around Europe. This one was the lucky survivor.
2007-01-23 04:04:25 · answer #6 · answered by Scott M 7 · 0⤊ 2⤋
It is a fake painted image of Jesus on a piece of cloth that is said to be his burial shroud. The Catholic Church called it a phony over a hundred years ago yet it seems to pop up every now and then and then the Atheist say "Look the Christians are so phony."
That's it in a nut shell.
GOD bless you.
2007-01-23 03:59:44 · answer #7 · answered by Bye Bye 6 · 1⤊ 2⤋
It is supposedly the cloth that covered Jesus when he was placed in the tomb, and it is supposed to have the image of him on it. It has proven to be a false piece of the catholic churches so-called miraculous icons. It is believed that Leonardo di Vinci created it. As the flake of paint on the cloth and then heated so that the flakes would melt and adhere to the cloth. Are similar to the type that Leonardo used.
2007-01-23 04:04:56 · answer #8 · answered by Nancy 6 · 1⤊ 1⤋
To the Christian faith (and if it were not a fake) it would be the cloth that wrapped Christ and was imprinted with his likeness when he rose from the dead.
In some ways you could draw a similarity from it to other "holy objects" of other religions like the stone in Mecca, the Ark of the Covenant, etc...
2007-01-23 03:57:42 · answer #9 · answered by Pirate AM™ 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Many believe this to be the shroud that covered Jesus after death.
2007-01-23 03:58:05 · answer #10 · answered by B"Quotes 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋