Why wasn't the cloth mentioned with in the 50 days from crucifixion to pentecost? Sureley someone would have seen it by then? after all he had many followers...If you believe this shroud is Jesus's Shroud, that's fine, If I am wrong, it doesn't matter for my salvation, but if I am right, you wasted alot of faith in a piece of a hoax...Christians are to walk by faith, not by sight, that includes the sight of a piece of cloth, or a vial of copper looking like blood...trickery to decieve...Jesus never used these things...
No Catholic worships the shroud. In fact, the Church hasn't even declared the Shroud to be authentic. No Catholic is obligated to believe in its authenticity.
However, Christ may have left us the Shroud to convince skeptics in our materialist age. Many skeptical scientists who have studied the Shroud have converted.
Why wasn't the cloth mentioned with in the 50 days from crucifixion to pentecost? Sureley someone would have seen it by then?
I don't know. Why didn't anyone mention the whereabouts of the Cross, or Mary's tomb, or the upper room, or Joseph's death?
after all he had many followers...If you believe this shroud is Jesus's Shroud, that's fine, If I am wrong, it doesn't matter for my salvation, but if I am right, you wasted alot of faith in a piece of a hoax...
That doesn't necessarily follow. Learning about the Shroud is certainly of equal or greater value than watching TV, something which you may have done, and the available evidence points to the Shrouds authenticity.
Christians are to walk by faith, not by sight,...
The earth and heavens declare the glory of God.
that includes the sight of a piece of cloth, or a vial of copper looking like blood...trickery to decieve...Jesus never used these things...
Jesus gave us intellects which we are not to despise. Use yours, and you will find it highly probable that Jesus left us with His burial cloth (and almost certainly several Eucharistic miracles).