The shroud shows bloodstains consistent with a person who was laying still (a rather natural condition for someone who is dead). If he was resurrected and started bleeding again while still wearing it, then there would have been smeared bloodstains all over the thing - it wouldn’t look like it does now.
WRT bias, my ONLY bias is that I think that the shroud is a forgery - and before this story came out, I was open to it being real. The story convinced me that it isn’t what it has been represented to be.
Which, again, says nothing whatsoever about Jesus - it ONLY addresses a claim about a particular piece of cloth.
>> The shroud shows bloodstains consistent with a person who was laying still (a rather natural condition for someone who is dead). <<
Actually, no. You didn’t read the article very carefully, did you? The article says that the blood stains are NOT consistent with someone who was lying still. Rather, they are consistent with someone who was standing up. Why was Jesus standing still? I dunno, maybe he was praying.
If it weren’t the shroud, it would have been MUCH easier to have worked with someone lying down. How many people with huge gashes in their sides, and holes through their feet and hands, and a circle of wounds around their heads are going to be standing up on their own? About one, and pretty certainly only one.
>> WRT bias, my ONLY bias is that I think that the shroud is a forgery - and before this story came out, I was open to it being real. The story convinced me that it isn’t what it has been represented to be. <<
Don’t be so disingenuous. You seem awfully committed to the notion it was fake, despite barely being familiar with the article. And your initial comments had nothing to do with the article, just attacking people who believe in it.