Keep in mind tsome of he claims against this being the Shroud of Christ:

1.  Carbon dating to 13th/14 Century (but other tests claim of biblical times)
2.  Jewish custom at time of Christ’s death was to anoint the body with a balm and wrap in strip wrappings (7-10” strips wrapped around the body)
3.  The image of the head is disproportionate to the body
4.   Face features do not appear what is considered traditionally Jewish in features

Personally, I don’t know.  I do not need relics, or confirmation from relics to support my faith.  They would just distract, and if proven genuine become an idol to some.

Precious soul...

Please feel free to PM me if you need to.  There are some very cruel, judgmental, unknowing about our hearts,  remarks on here.

(((Hugs)))  

 

I think that God is so loving that He would even provide an image of Himself to mankind so that our faith in Him would be strengthen.  Afterall, God desires to save all mankind (1 Timothy 2:4).  Many people do not have the faith of Abraham.  If God had told you to sacrifice your child for Him, would you have done' it?  That takes great faith.   How many people have that kind of faith? Today, if one heard a voice from Heaven telling him to kill his child, he would atumoatically assume it was the voice of Satan.  But Abraham knew that this voice came from God.  And Abraham knew that even if he killed his son, God would provide and give his son life.  That was Abraham's faith.  And God did allow the child to live.

God knows that man's faith is very very weak just like the Israelites faith in Him was weak.  That was why God told Moses to build a bronze serpent (Numbers 21:6-9).  The bronze serpent was an icon pointing toward God and leading them toward God, and it was God Himself who healed them.  It was only when the Israelites started to worship the bronze serpent that God had it destroyed (2 Kings 18:4).   An icon or an image can strengthen a person's faith by leading them toward God, but an icon should  NEVER be worshiped as God.  That was the lesson the Israelites learned regardng the bronze serpent. 

In the New Testament, Jesus said "The Son of Man must be lifted up as Moses lifted up the serpent in the desert, so that everyone who believes may have eternal life in him." (John 3:13-14).  In here, the serpent that Jesus was referring to was the bronze serpent that God told Moses to build.  If the image on the Shroud of Turin is indeed the image of Jesus Christ, then Christ has left behind His image to strengthen our faith even more so that we may believe in God.  Afterall, which one of us has the kind of faith that Abraham has?

For the record...

I started this thread as a result of a Yahoo news article.  Before that news article I thought that the Shroud probably was not the burial cloth of Jesus.  But the new information on it caught my attention.

I have rarely thought of the Shroud.  After I saw the article, I wanted to share it so I started this thread.  If I could have forseen some of the  comments, as a result of this topic, I would never have started it.

For on this thread there have been many hateful posts.  We have been accused of being idoloters and of running all over the world looking for relics.  We have been accused of not sitting at the feet of Jesus for 5 minutes.  One person was accused  that "Your agenda in coming to this board is to DESTROY the Christian's TOTAL reliance upon the Word of God for his salvation, life, and daily walk in Christ Jesus to the glory of God the Father."

This is hateful, ugly stuff and I feel horrible that it happened.  For you that have endured such ugliness, I am so sorry and sad for you.  For you that have read this, hoping to find some love in Christianity, I am deeply sorry.  Please know that God is not like some of the posts that you read here.  He really is not...

Keep the topic to the Shroud of Turin, or your posts will be deleted.

This is a very compelling argument for relics, although I personally don't believe in they contain any supernatural power. I do believe the shroud is authentic, but I think it is merely a wonderful piece of archeology to evidence Jesus' crucifixion and resurrection due to the testing that revealed the image was imprinted by high levels of radiation.

I have been one of the more vigorous opponents of catholicism in the past, but I have mellowed. I do think catholics tread a fine and dangerous line between veneration and idolatry, and I have heard all the justifications imaginable. My only concern for the slippery slope that Israel found themselves in worshiping all sorts of things because of their nature, their sinful nature which is no different than ours. Mixing images and religion is a very dangerous practice, ask Aaron.

But the op gives interesting new development to the shroud mystery. I believe my fellow shroudies will all agree.

*["...For on this thread there have been many hateful posts...One person was accused  that 'Your agenda in coming to this board is to DESTROY the Christian's TOTAL reliance upon the Word of God for his salvation, life, and daily walk in Christ Jesus to the glory of God the Father.'"]

***A post is "hateful" if its content is FALSE and presented to cause hurt to another party. If the content of a post is TRUE and not intended to hurt a party but to instruct---then it is not HATEFUL.

I am the person who posted the comment that you referred to above...and I do NOT apologize for making it. The person to whom I made the statement was a ardent opponent of "Sola Scriptura" and belonged to the Roman Catholic faith (who instigated the anti-Sola Scriptura movement in response to Martin Luther's pro-Sola Scriptura position).

The Roman Church promulgated the anti-Sola Scriptura movement because they could NOT support their anti-biblical doctrines by the Scriptures...and set out destroy the credibility of the Scriptures and, in turn, the Christian's TOTAL reliance on the Word of God for his salvation! You and others on this thread have alleged that what I posted was hateful even though I told the truth. Now isn't that special? I submit that we are  living in a day when "political correctness" is considered the "norm"...and people do not want or can bear to hear the truth from "bigots" like me...but would rather hear something that would make themselves feel good and bolster their self-esteem.

BOTTOM LINE: I told the truth...and you (and others of your persuasion) don't like to hear the truth because some say it causes "disharmony"..."divisions" within the "body of Christ." The truth is...all on this thread are not of the "body of Christ."   

Marcello