Posted on 01/26/2005 10:37:01 PM PST by neverdem
The Shroud of Turin is much older than the medieval date that modern science has affixed to it and could be old enough to have been the burial wrapping of Jesus, a new analysis concludes.
Since 1988, most scientists have confidently concluded that it was the work of a medieval artist, because carbon dating had placed the production of the fabric between 1260 and 1390.
In an article this month in the journal Thermochimica Acta, Dr. Raymond N. Rogers, a chemist retired from Los Alamos National Laboratory, said the carbon dating test was valid but that the piece tested was about the size of a postage stamp and came from a portion that had been patched.
"We're darned sure that part of the cloth was not original Shroud of Turin cloth," he said, adding that threads from the main part of the shroud were pure linen, which is spun from flax.
The threads in the patched portion contained cotton as well and had been dyed to match.
From other tests, he estimated that the shroud was between 1,300 and 3,000 years old.
Truth is,.....There NEVER was a time when Jesus-the SON was NOT!
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Fascinating. I thought the movie, CONTACT, itself was strangely defending religious experience against the reductionism of science. I kept scratching my head saying, "an atheist wrote this?"
Are you saying that the second Person of the Trinity has always had a human nature? Yes or no, please.
No human nature, no Jesus.
Go read some theology books on the 'filique'........
There NEVER was a time when JESUS (JAH) Was NOT!
Jesus the Eternal!
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Was there ever a time when Jesus didn't have a human nature?
See post # 125
Yes or no, maestro. Was Jesus always a man?
See post# 125....
Checkmate : )
Never read Contact, in fact Sagan tends to annoy me. I might have to check this out.
Eternal!
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Jesus is 4 1/2 billion years old? No orthodox approach to Christology would make that claim.
Interesting. Thanks.
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Jesus 'is' Eternal!
See post# 125
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Then what about the mountain of evidence that points to the Shroud's authenticity? Do you just ignore that?
It seems more reasonable to me to believe that the one countervailing piece of evidence is somehow erroneous.
I am sorry, but you are wrong, and Romulus is right. "Jesus" (the Word Made Flesh) began to exist at a specific moment in human history, roughly 2009 years ago.
You are free to repeat your claim until all bandwidth is exhausted, but your claim is still wrong.
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