[Urbane_Guerilla]

As an agnostic, the shroud intrigues and fascinates me. I have followed this story for many years with an open mind. St Paul said that the literal resurrection of Christ was a necessary element of Christian faith, and that has always seemed to me to be unarguably true.

If in fact Jesus were the Son of God, who rose from the dead, it is necessarily believable that His burial shroud should be divinely preserved and presented to a later age, as a logical proof of the central fact of Christianity. What more stunning evidence than the meticulous scientific study of that fact, in the age of sceptical science?

The implications of the shroud, given the uniqueness of the shroud, deserve respectful attention.

[reformed_democrat]

If in fact Jesus were the Son of God, who rose from the dead, it is necessarily believable that His burial shroud should be divinely preserved and presented to a later age, as a logical proof of the central fact of Christianity. What more stunning evidence than the meticulous scientific study of that fact, in the age of sceptical science?

The implications of the shroud, given the uniqueness of the shroud, deserve respectful attention.

Very well put.

I'm amazed that a piece of cloth could have survived 2000 years intact. Add to that the remarkable image on the cloth, the inability to explain how the image got there (no paint has been detected, according to investigators), and the technique (the image has a three-dimensional quality that could likely have been achieved by having it "wrapped" as opposed to having it flat when the image was produced) all indicate that this is a remarkable object.

I'm curious to know if a similar object could be produced today, and what the method of production would be.