Posted: Mar 28, 2010 3:21 am
theidiot wrote:chairman bill wrote:Oh FFS! It's been shown to be a fake, therefore it can't be the face of this semi-mythical character. Whoah! Unless this is a miracle, and the truth is only apparent to believers. All you have to do is believe & you'll know it's truly the image of Jeebus. Halle-bleedin'-lujah, praise Dog!
Really?
Yeah.
It has?
Yeah.
I've never really been interested in the Shroud?
Why are you asking me? Only you can verify the level of your own indifference.
But can you present this argument and the evidence in support of it, that the shroud has been proven beyond any reasonable doubt to be a fake?
Sure.
Reading about the shroud on the wikipedia page, there is various pieces of evidence to argue the contrary, enough to say that it's rather difficult to argue that "it's been shown to be fake". There seems to be a quite reasonable argument that it wasn't, at least this is what I in my limited knowledge of it can garner from the wikipedia article, about the various ways the shroud was analyzed for it's authenticity.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shroud_of_Turin
It's debunked in the Bible. John 20:7 describes the burial shroud of Jesus: "and the face-cloth which had been on His head, not lying with the linen wrappings, but rolled up in a place by itself." According to the Gospel of John, the face cloth was separate from the linens wrapping Jesus' body. The Shroud of Turin is a single length of linen cloth with the supposed image of Jesus' face on it.