"Best wishes J.C."
Well I suppose you have to label it before you deny it, denounce it and burn it. And for sure they will.
It says they found “several relics believed to be tied to the crucifixion.” So what else did they find, besides the piece of the cross, I wonder?
Reputed pieces of the true cross were very common in the middle ages. No telling how many ships could have been build from them all.
It is said that during the Middle Ages so many “pieces of The Cross” were sold around Europe, that you could build a number of very large boats with all of them.
This Holy Feast (which begins the Dormition Fast on the New Calendar) was yesterday!
The Feast was connected with the City of Constantinople, so the Wood they found has at least some chance of being genuine!
It it is genuine, it does not belong in Muhammadan hands, or in the hands of analysts. It belongs to the Church, and should be venerated, not analyzed.
Perhaps the object will validate itself by a miracle, which will discomfit the Turk and put it in the hands of the Orthodox Church.
Such things have happened in the past! Lord have mercy!!!!
Actually, I doubt that it can be true. I remember that the pieces of the real cross were sold during the fifties over WXEG 50,000 watt radio from Monterrey, Mexico, along with an autographed photo of Jesus, suitable for framing.
One would think that if we were meant to worship the wood of the cross, Scripture would have mentioned the disciples saving it.
Keep in mind, crucifiction was not uncommon and to the Roman’s, Jesus was just a common criminal, like the other two thieves that day. I doubt they gave each criminal a brand new cross. Wood was kind of hard to come by in Israel and it took a lot of work to cut and rip the wood, chip out the cross pieces and assemble it. Crosses were re-used. It was Roman Government property and not free for the taking.
The Romans certainly weren’t going to keep it for the collectors value. The Roman Guard was too busy trying to keep up the charade that someone stole the body and overcame a dozen Roman soldiers. They were trying to stay un-executed.
Based on that, in my humble opinion, this is all a bunch of baloney. We should worship the true God of the Bible and not some old piece of driftwood.
"Best wishes J.C."
No big deal; there was a forest full of that wood bought and sold in the middle ages.
Didn’t Pilate re-purpose the cross for a scarecrow for his cornfields on the outskirts of Jerusalem?
