[slumber1]

Let's pretend for just a moment that you are right. Why is modern science unable to recreate the Shroud, let alone explain how it could have been made with medieval technology.

I don't know nor do I really care how this thing was made. If you believe the plain meaning of scripture it must be a fake

Has it ever crossed your mind that the word "napkin" DID NOT mean the same thing in the 16th century that it means today?

Napkin is from the Greek word soudarion which means a cloth for wiping perspiration from the face and for cleaning the nose and also used in swathing the head of a corpse. From Strongs Greek dictionary of the New Testament

[aruanan]

Napkin is from the Greek word soudarion which means a cloth for wiping perspiration from the face and for cleaning the nose and also used in swathing the head of a corpse. From Strongs Greek dictionary of the New Testament

How does this preclude the authenticity of the shroud? It can swath the head of the corpse after the shroud is in place.

[wagglebee]

I don't know nor do I really care how this thing was made. If you believe the plain meaning of scripture it must be a fake

So, the Gospel of Saint John was written in English? Is THAT what you are saying? The word napkin comes from the French word nappe which actually means TABLE CLOTH and THAT is the word that 16th century translators would have used.

[vladimir998]

The soudarion, commonly spelled ‘sudarium’ today is in Oviedo.

http://www.shroud.com/guscin.htm

Also, the shroud IS a strip of cloth. It was most likely bound around Christ with other strips of cloth.