it's funny how a piece of cloth just scares the sh!t out of them...
Posted on 03/24/2005 7:17:27 AM PST by shroudie
Yeah, I have a couple of those dresses myself!
Hey, why not? An high school teacher with no knowledge of Catholicism has a best-selling book called "The DaVinci Code." You can sell any anti-Catholic crap these days.
The Catholic Church had them and destroyed the evidence. < /Dan Brownism>
You'd have to be something to be so into it, that's for sure.
I must be tired I thought this said Lake Erie was a fake.
Except for the burial cloths. And why, when John entered the tomb, did he "see and believe"? Why didn't he assume that someone had moved the body? Scripture tells us that "They still did not understand from Scripture that Jesus had to rise from the dead." Perhaps it was because he viewed the image-bearing Shroud.
John 203So Peter and the other disciple started for the tomb. 4Both were running, but the other disciple outran Peter and reached the tomb first. 5He bent over and looked in at the strips of linen lying there but did not go in. 6Then Simon Peter, who was behind him, arrived and went into the tomb. He saw the strips of linen lying there, 7as well as the burial cloth that had been around Jesus' head. The cloth was folded up by itself, separate from the linen. 8Finally the other disciple, who had reached the tomb first, also went inside. He saw and believed. 9(They still did not understand from Scripture that Jesus had to rise from the dead.)
The dates were right on the button for that action thereby proving that the repair had happened.
The nuns who cared for the shround are also reported in ancient records to have IRONED the shroud to make it flat. Interestingly enough there's a patina of iron, like that which would be left from ironing, all over the shroud. Sometimes this layer is misidentified as pigment residue.
I'm pretty sure this cloth is the one stolen from St. Sophia by one of my ancestors and then taken to France where it unaccountably ended up in the hands of the Knights Templar.
And that Jesus left us His Church which gave us the Bible.
And remember that all truth is God's truth, since He is Truth. Therefore, it would be wrong to proclaim the Shroud false if it is not, or to proclaim it false with insufficient data to render a definitive judgment.
Eyes-up!
(NOT-down!)
:-)
That can't be right. I heard they discovered a "33 AD" label on the Shroud, in perfectly clear 12-point Times Roman.
And does the Shroud help to corroborate this? It does, and has led to the conversion of many skeptical scientists who've studied it.
Relics are not to be worshipped or despised (see 2 Kings 13:21), but venerated.
That was brought to our attention a couple of decades ago. Whatever.
it's funny how a piece of cloth just scares the sh!t out of them...
....EMPTY-Tomb and the resurrected PHYSICAL-BODY of Jesus GONE...
.............................EMPTY-Tomb
......vererate the EMPTY-Tomb!
...meaning.....EMPTY!
:-)
have a blessed weekend!
(Romans 10:17)
I read an article in "Popular Photography" about 20 years ago in which a photographer, using chemicals and techniques known since ancient times, created a "Shroud of Elvis."
When it comes to the shroud, I just apply this old logic: Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.
The shroud is almost certainly a fake, and the more we know, the more I am convinced.
"Most likely it involved some real wicked people," Wilson said.
I agree. It's a hoax most foul. A person or persons fabricated this fraud. The motives are manifold, but they either killed someone in a manner similar to Christ, or they sought out a dead body of similar description to the crucified Christ, mutilated it according to the descriptions in the Gospels, then wrapped it in linen and left it to stew in its own juices. Once the shroud was produced it would have discouraged others to attempt "copies", for to retain its "provenance", the church would be compelled to recognize only one fake and encourage or demand the destruction of any others.
I believe that this is real. Long live Rock n' Roll!
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