Posted on 05/08/2025 10:03:30 AM PDT by SunkenCiv
It’s a fascinating concept but almost certainly a waste of time. There’s no basis for imagining the early Christians worshipped relics and toted them around for safekeeping - everything points in the opposite direction. Their faith and their focus was in their Lord and Savior, not chunks of wood or pieces of linen. So the myriad of thousands of “relics” that started floating around centuries later are most certainly 100.000% all fakes by cults that weakened or abandoned faith in a savior and replaced it with an obsession over idols of wood and stone and clothe, etc.
everything they test will come back with different DNA, because it is all fake, every bit of it.
Agreed. If Jesus really had descendants, no one today would be looking for smoke from the Vatican. Everyone would be saying that one of Jesus’ descendants is the top leader of Christians.
The idea has been around since long before ‘The Da Vinci Code’.
Handle with care. Finding a “descendent” or relative of Jesus through DNA could play havoc upon believers whose faith is wavering. An opening for one of those referenced in Matthew 24:5...”For many shall come in my name, saying, I am Christ; and shall deceive many.”
On the other hand, getting a match between the supposed bones of John the Baptist and DNA from the Shroud, would be quite something...
Several DNA studies on Jewish Davidic descent, and other more traditional family descent studies. Here’s one:
and
https://momentmag.com/king-davids-genes-2/
Yes, that goes without saying!
Yes, that goes without saying!
The blood found on the shroud is Blood Type AB. Lots of studies have been done on it. Plant DNA has been extracted from pollen found on the shroud, but I didn’t see anything about DNA from the blood stains.
That would be interesting if any more information could be found on the blood. XX or XY. If XY, focus of course on Y.
I’m not sure about blood stains per se, but many types of human DNA were found on the shroud:
https://www.livescience.com/52567-shroud-of-turin-dna.html
From what I’ve seen of the video so far, they use the word ‘descendant’ to refer to descendants of Jesus’ family genetic heritage, not direct descendants of Jesus Himself.
So... maybe unearth the progeny of the half-siblings...
A longshot, but interesting in concept, anyway.
Just taking the Shroud... limiting it to that one artifact... how would researchers account for all the other individuals over 2,000 years who may have dropped a hair, or left some skin oils on the fabric? How do they propose to account for contamination (for lack of a better word)?
They’ve already found DNA from many different groups - even from India - on the Shroud.
I don’t much about the science, or what would be involved in isolating just one DNA ‘type’ from blood stains that old...
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