To: ICE-FLYER
If it was the face of Christ on the cloth you would not be able to tell what He looked like. The scripture was clear that His face was so severly beaten that you could not tell who He was. Except the theory would be that the image came to be through the act of the Resurrection.
According to Scripture, Christ rose from the dead and moved amongst His followers and Scripture does not record that they beheld a disfigured face. The record is He retained the wounds in His "hands" (wrists?) and His side.
123 posted on
04/05/2004 9:52:39 AM PDT by
cyncooper
("The 'War on Terror ' is not a figure of speech")
To: cyncooper
Well, no kidding! I agree with you, but that makes no sense if it was a BURIAL cloth. And such mysteries are not in the character of God to foist upon man. God knows full well the ability of man to lose focus on Him and worship images or idols, it would be totally against His character to leave such a stumbling block behind for man to trip over. Remember "Blessed is he who believes and has not seen"?
129 posted on
04/05/2004 9:58:19 AM PDT by
ICE-FLYER
(God bless and keep the United States of America)
To: cyncooper
It's also worth noting that in Scripture, after Christ rose from the dead he was not easily recognized as the person whom He had been before He was crucified (the passage in the Gospels about the encounter with the disciples on the road to Emmaus is a good case in point).
139 posted on
04/05/2004 10:06:04 AM PDT by
Alberta's Child
(Alberta -- the TRUE north strong and free.)
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