So some guy in the 1300s went to the time, trouble and expense, to purchase a thousand year old piece of linen? Assuming he could even find something like that, why would he do it? To fool people 700 years in the future, using tests he could never even conceive of?
Yeah, that’s a good counterargument. Forget this is a religious relic; just look at the history of forgers. None of them made much attempt to acquire materials from the proper time period until tests were invented that could differentiate such materials from simply materials that “looked old enough”.
Sounds like a very scientific and believable explanation. That does it, your explanation is now "settled science"
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“So some guy in the 1300s went to the time, trouble and expense, to purchase a thousand year old piece of linen? Assuming he could even find something like that, why would he do it? To fool people 700 years in the future, using tests he could never even conceive of?”
I kinda love this answer.❤️
Good one.
“So some guy in the 1300s went to the time, trouble and expense, to purchase a thousand year old piece of linen? Assuming he could even find something like that, why would he do it? To fool people 700 years in the future, using tests he could never even conceive of?”
It doesn’t have to be a conspiracy theory.
We know the shroud wasn’t found util the 14th century.
Some guy found a piece of blank cloth (of unknown age at that time) in the 14th century and decided to paint something on it—for reasons completely unknown at to us now.
Is that any less believable than: The burial cloth used by Jesus, due to a miracle, contained his image, and Christians decided to remain silent and keep it hidden away until the 14th century?
Jesus’ burial cloth is mentioned in the Gospels. Had it miraculously contained his image, it would certainly been mentioned by Mark, Matthew, Luke, or John?
Surely Acts or one of the Epistles would have mentioned it. Yet, it’s not mentioned at all.
I know something can’t be proved from silence, but it would seem to be a glaring omission from the Bible that such a high profile and unusual miracle isn’t mentioned at all.