[ClearCase_guy]

The article contains a number of points showing what an unusual burial this was. Organic remains are usually not preserved in the humid ground of Jerusalem, there was no secondary burial, this is the earliest known case of leprosy. So, this is quite a singular find, eh?

And in conclusion: the weave of the cloth here is not like the weave of the cloth in Turin, therefore the Turin Shroud is a fake.

Huh? How did we get there?

[steve8714]

Date;ine star date 12171.5
Excavation of a tomb near the former New York City of an itinerant day laborer named John Doe reveals that 21st century Americans were not buried in wool suits with neckties but in denim cloth pants and shirts made of what was called chambray.
Rather than the woolen pinstripes alleged to be used ( a complex and advanced fabric) at the time, this proves that the suit of the alleged “Keith Olbermann” dates from some fifteen centuries later, when it was used to hold feminine hygiene products.

[Gamecock]

How sad that so many require a piece of cloth of questionable origin to help justify their faith.

[Drawsing]

How sad that so many require a piece of cloth of questionable origin to help justify their faith.

I don't need a piece of cloth to justify my faith, but if it is real...and we will probably never know...it is just plain cool.

[blackminorca]

This is utter nonsense.

Complex weaves incorporated not only into clothing but magnificent tapestries are very prevalent during the first century BC - weaving had been around for thousands of years.

http://www.mansfield.edu/~art/Papyrus2GeoffreyBeadlea_picture_of_women_weaving_in_th.htm

[Enosh]

"... unlike the complex weave of the Turin Shroud, this shroud was made up of a simple two-way weave..."

Uhh... Joseph of Arimathea was rich? Hello?

[blackminorca]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jLZdrPwp5vs&feature=related

[Ditter]

So this shroud was different from the Shroud of Turin? So what? Shrouds all came from the same shroud factory? No they didn’t. I would love for the Shroud of Turin to be authentic. Why? So I could fall down and worship it? No! Because it would make my belief in Jesus stronger? NO, because my belief could not be any stronger. I hope that it is real because if I had been a witness to Jesus death and burial and had been able to, I would have saved the shroud that he was wrapped in and protected it and passed it down to my children. It makes me feel good that some simple ordinary person might have done that so many years ago

[Between the Lines]

The Shroud of Turin will never be proved to be real and most possibly will be proved to be a fake. Not that it is a fake, just that it is easier to disprove something like this than to prove it.

It is by design that there is so little evidence to prove of Jesus' existence, His works and His divinity. For if we had proof positive of any of these things, what need is there to have faith?

[InternetTuffGuy]

I have a tweed jacket hanging next to a blue blazer in my closet. Although they were purchased from the same Brooks Bros store on the same day, they are nothing alike in weave and therefore clearly prove that I lived in two different centuries and continents simutlaneously - and therefore never existed.

[Smokin' Joe]

Either the Shroud of Turin is a relic of Christ's burial, or it is not.

Either way, it does not affect my faith. I do not worship relics, but the risen Christ.

If it is indeed genuine, well, that is neat!

If not, it is still an historical and archaeological curiosity, and intriguing nonetheless.

So many act as if the provenance of a piece of fabric is the basis for belief in Christianity, as if finding it to not be Jesus' shroud would prove anything.

[SunkenCiv]

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2408475/posts
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/chat/2409268/posts

[SunkenCiv]

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