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If the Shroud is real, it is a physical relic of the Resurrection, in two ways: 1)It is an image of the dead Christ; 2) It is evidence of the moment of the Resurrection, and the Resurrection’s physical effects on a piece of cloth.

Physicists have calculated the duration of the burst of energy, and the power of that burst, that would have been necessary to create the image, and it is utterly beyond the capability of any earthly power to generate.

There are always proud people who will sniff, and praise themselves with, “I need no evidence.” They are too lazy to become informed about the abundance of extra-biblical evidence of biblical events, which exists for good reasons.

The maker of the video, Bubba in his mother’s basement, has studied nothing about photograohy, geometry, physics, or the hundred other sciences that support the authenticity of the Shroud.

# 56 If the Shroud is real, it is a physical relic of the Resurrection, in two ways: 1)It is an image of the dead Christ; 2) It is evidence of the moment of the Resurrection, and the Resurrection’s physical effects on a piece of cloth. Physicists have calculated the duration of the burst of energy, and the power of that burst, that would have been necessary to create the image, and it is utterly beyond the capability of any earthly power to generate. There are always proud people who will sniff, and praise themselves with, “I need no evidence.” They are too lazy to become informed about the abundance of extra-biblical evidence of biblical events, which exists for good reasons. The maker of the video, Bubba in his mother’s basement, has studied nothing about photography, geometry, physics, or the hundred other sciences that support the authenticity of the Shroud. 'To one who has faith, no explanation is necessary. To one without faith, no explanation is possible.' Saint Thomas Aquinas 'Thomas of Aquino'; 1225 – 7 March 1274), was an Italian Dominican friar, Catholic priest, and Doctor of the Church. He was an immensely influential philosopher, theologian, and jurist in the tradition of scholasticism, within which he is also known as the Doctor Angelicus and the Doctor Communis. The name Aquinas identifies his ancestral origins in the county of Aquino in present-day Lazio.

Regarding the “Shroud”..there's an abundance of twisting and turning to somehow “prove” it's authentic and to oddly demonstrate the power of the risen Christ by “bursts of energy” etc.....from a piece of old cloth?

We already know that with all the historical evidence there is no historic incident better or more variously supported than the resurrection of Christ, including his own words... “I am the resurrection”....

The resurrection is a historical fact—not just some philosophical ideal or idea. ..and certainly the power of God in raising him from the dead hardly could be contained in an old piece of fabric when in fact the 500 plus, both friend and foe, who ‘saw him’ after the resurrection and recorded as such certainly is far more powerful.

Hard archaeological evidence is one thing but chasing a fragment of cloth as is done with the shroud is a stretch at best when there is otherwise evidences of the resurrection far established and superior.