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To: ZX12R

“Yes, there were so many people resurrected from the dead back then, how would you ever know which one it was?”

The image itself, and the unknown manner of how it was produced also does not confirm (prove) that the person in the image was “resurrected”. It can only confirm that the shroud was placed around whoever it is in the image. When, how, why and with whom cannot be determined by any facts that can be deciphered from the shroud alone.

Regardless, belief or non-belief in such things cannot be a determining factor in a Christian’s faith. It is enough that G-d knows more than we do, always, and we can leave understanding and confirmation of such things up to G-d. We can trust that G-d will answer such questions to ALL of us when and if it is important for us to have the answers. And by G-d, I do not mean some human activity claiming to be the work of G-d.


57 posted on 12/14/2011 1:04:11 PM PST by Wuli
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To: Wuli
Regardless, belief or non-belief in such things (the shroud) cannot be a determining factor in a Christian’s faith.

That seems like quite an untenable position to take. How then, can belief or non-belief in the resurrection of Jesus, the performance of miracles, his immaculate conception, and the idea that he was an actual historical person at all, be determining factors in a Christian's faith?

If you choose to believe the latter, the shroud is just one more of those same type of things. Is it not?
108 posted on 12/15/2011 5:02:05 AM PST by ZX12R (FUBO GTFO 2012 !)
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