Posted on 08/31/2024 4:22:33 PM PDT by nickcarraway
Researchers are still debating the age and origins of the sacred cloth.
The Shroud of Turin may have been hiding in plain sight all along as a new book claims it was a relic from the Passion of the Christ.
The piece of cloth is sacred to the religion of Christianity as it shows the imprint of Jesus Christ.
Many believe the cloth was wrapped around his body when he was buried. following his crucifixion.
Jack Markwardt's new book – The Hidden History of the Shroud of Turin – describes how early Christians may have hidden the cloth due to fear of persecution.
He wrote: "When, shortly after Jesus' death, his disciples, now organised as a Church, were confronted with religious persecution.
"They obeyed his directives by resorting to secrecy and concealing, from non-believers, every pearl of the new faith, including the Turin Shroud."
Mr Markwardt claims that the Shroud was concealed behind Antioch's walls.
Another author, Ian Wilson, claims that the cloth was folded four times and displayed as the only representation of Christ's face, citing texts written at the time that referred to the "Image of Edessa."
The image of Edessa originated from the time of King Abgar of Edessa, who lived in what is now Turkey. He supposedly asked Jesus to heal him of a disease.
Mr Markwardt added: "Four texts and a work of art confirm that Pope Eleutherius, upon receiving [King] Abgar the Great's request to become a Christian."
He argued that this not only "effectuated his baptism" but "directed that the Turin Shroud be displayed to him."
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In his book, Mr Markwardt says: "The Shroud is the only full-length 'holy image of our Lord and Savior' associated with Jesus' Passion even putatively datable to that time.
"Assuming that this text is truly authentic and reliable, it is clearly connected with the flight of the Church of Jerusalem.
"It is incumbent upon those who would claim that, at that time, the Turin Shroud either did not exist or was concealed to identify a full-length 'holy image of our Lord and Savior' associated with Jesus' Passion, other than the Turin Shroud, to which the Sermon of Athanasius could possibly refer."
Mr Markwardt believes the uncertainty surrounding the origins of the Shroud has come because of Justinian I, an Eastern Roman emperor who wanted the cloth for himself.
He says Justinian "created an illusion" to "obliterate the relic's apostolic provenance, its entire ancient history, and its five-centuries-long affiliation with the Church of Antioch.
"This covetous, rapacious, and scheming Byzantine emperor, more than any other person, is responsible for the historical obscurity which presently surrounds the Turin Shroud [and] the doubt which presently surrounds its authenticity."
A recent study in Italy found that the Shroud did originate from the time of Jesus Christ, but there is still debate among experts about this.
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When the early primitive style of dna dating was done to appear to show a 1500s age of something about the Shroud, the comedian Mark Russell said:
I really was open to the idea of the Shroud being 2,000 years old and genuine. Right until the researchers got down to the International Ladies Garment Workers union label near the bottom.
I think Ian Wilson has the stronger case.
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I’ve read, I think, every major work on the shroud in English and believe it to be genuine. This one I may or may not get, if that’s the depth of its analysis: the early believers would have been torn between the sacredness of the object and the fact that the death wrappings were ritually unclean in Judaism, handling such was forbidden, and anyone who handled them, ie, to display them, would also have been considered unclean. They had enough to worry about with the Jewish officials having it in for them to add another layer of trouble
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I love the fact that the shroud is still with us, places described in the Bible can be found and examined, writings from the time of Jesus can be read and studied, but those are just things. The truth of Jesus is so much more than those items, Jesus is a matter for the heart and for faith. Bless us our Lord as we honor the gifts you left behind for us to remember you by.
If it was real, you don’t need to write a book about why you would keep it hidden and secret. Somebody would steal it.
Thanks. I had never thought of that aspect.
Amen
I saw it in 1978, it was a tremendous uplifting faith experience.
God breaking his own commandment
is that possible?
1. YOU WILL LOVE GOD ABOVE ALL THINGS
There is only one God, creator and almighty, to worship. “I, the Lord, am your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of slavery. You shall have no other gods before me. You shall not make for yourself a carved image, or any likeness of anything that is in heaven above, or that is on the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth. You shall not bow down to them or serve them” (Ex 20, 2-5).
How about bearing false witness? I’ve never heard a single person talk about worshiping this shroud.
If it is genuine and DNA can be extracted, then a clone can be created.
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