Bloodstains on Shroud of Turin are probably fake, experts say

Fox News ^ | 07/15/18 | Christopher Carbone

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I guess I’m going to have to say “man” simply because I don’t see the Bible evidence or explanation for it.

Or need of it for our walk with the Lord?

Why do you persist in insisting "man" when Swordmaker has presented conclusive evidence from multiple independent sources / areas of study, that the Shroud *cannot* be accounted for by any known man-made means? He included both positive evidence for its historicity (pollen indigenous to Jerusalem, hemoglobin breakdown products analyzed by world experts in hemoglobin) and negative evidence (the physical image is associated with the fibers in a way that paint is not; characteristics of image on Shroud inconsistent with medieval beliefs about crucifixion).

As far as not being in Scripture, the Bible never mentions that Jesus even once, had to go to the bathroom. Are you forgetting the passage from John's gospel that "there are many other things Jesus did, if all of them were to be told, I doubt the whole world would hold the books" ...?

The early church was undergoing violent persecution: the Gospel was spread (as St. Paul said) on the resurrection: "if the dead are not raised, then Christ is not raised, and you are dead in your sins." A winding sheet of an image of Jesus, would not have "proved" the resurrection back then, but would only have served to feed into the Pharisees' tale that the disciples had raided the tomb and stolen the body.

Think of the Shroud as one more testimony from our Heavenly Father. It inspires us to reverence Jesus, it does not _replace_ Him.

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I understand Swordmaker’s excellent posts, it is just not necessary for evangelizing or our personal salvation.