There have been a lot of new TV shows about the Shroud of Turin lately. Seems like it’s a new wave of Shroud interest which I find exciting.
My bro Jeff over at Jeofurry’s Jesus Journey did a post recently on “Shrouded in Mystery.” I’ve been interested in the Shroud for years, even before becoming a Christian.
You cannot just casually dismiss it. That’s the key to this. Consider:
- The scientists still cannot explain how the image was made.
- It’s not paint.
- There are no pigments nor dyes.
- There is blood.
- The wounds match what the Bible says happened on “Good Friday.”
- Contrary to popular artistic renderings, the nail wounds are not in the hands but the wrists.
- The Shroud has holographic traits.
- It appears to be a 2-dimensional image of a 3-or-more dimensional object: could the image have been made as the cloth passed through Jesus’ body as He was resurrected?
What say you? Interested to get your thoughts.
It is the glory of God to conceal a matter, but the glory of kings is to search out a matter. –Proverbs 25:2.
May He Increase!
Megan (1)
The Shroud of Turin is a one piece shroud. If you know how that thing works, it’s a big long thing twice as long as a man that was folded in the middle so half of it came down the front and half of it came down the back. But in the gospel record it says there was a separate piece that covered the head that was lying by itself.
Ike, I understand what you’re saying. In fact, I’ve heard that there is a separate cloth somewhere in Europe called the “sudarim” or something like that, that is purported to be that separate piece.
Still, the question remains: exactly what is the Shroud and how did the image get on there. That still hasn’t been fully answered yet.