[shroudie]

My fascination with the Shroud stems from my faith. I was a Christian long before I had ever heard of the Shroud. Nothing would change, if tomorrow, somehow, it was proved a fake. The charges by some (not you) that it is somehow a crutch of faith, a thing worshipped, a graven image, etc., are preposterous.

I am fairly well convinced we will never prove beyond any doubt that it is the genuine burial cloth of Jesus (though I am convinced at an intellectual level that it is). And even if we did, we could not use it to prove the Resurrection and the Incarnation of the Christ. Faith would not want it so.

Shroudie

[american colleen]

My fascination with the Shroud stems from my faith. I was a Christian long before I had ever heard of the Shroud. Nothing would change, if tomorrow, somehow, it was proved a fake. The charges by some (not you) that it is somehow a crutch of faith, a thing worshipped, a graven image, etc., are preposterous.

Same with me, exactly.

Part of the fascination for me is that science (the self appointed answer guys) can't prove it's a fake.

A friend of mine insisted that Leonardo DaVinci 'photographed' it (???) so I gave her "The Resurrection of the Shroud" by Mark Antonacci. The book is kind of dry but the author was an atheist lawyer who compiled all the medical, scientific and archeological evidence available up to now (a couple of years ago) and came away from his research a believer. My friend (a Unitarian) is a believer as well after reading the book and doing research on her own.