Posted on 10/05/2009 11:22:44 AM PDT by Gamecock
An Italian scientist says he has reproduced the Shroud of Turin, a feat that he says proves definitively that the linen some Christians revere as Jesus Christ's burial cloth is a medieval fake. The shroud, measuring 14 feet, 4 inches by 3 feet, 7 inches bears the image, eerily reversed like a photographic negative, of a crucified man some believers say is Christ. "We have shown that is possible to reproduce something which has the same characteristics as the Shroud," Luigi Garlaschelli, who is due to illustrate the results at a conference on the para-normal this weekend in northern Italy, said on Monday. A professor of organic chemistry at the University of Pavia, Garlaschelli made available to Reuters the paper he will deliver and the accompanying comparative photographs.
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Me, too. It won’t make any difference in my beliefs but it could be to the non-believer.
There’s a first time for everything.
Well, it might be because we know why and how a rainbow is made... and we CAN make a rainbow. So far, including this attempt, we have been unable to make the Shroud.
John Dominick Crossen argues exactly that... Jesus would not have been buried. His body, according to Crossen, would have been tossed into a ditch for the dogs to eat like other crucifixion victims bodies were. Some skeptics doubt his existence. Many doubt the crucifixion.
For what purpose did Jesus Christ appear to his disciples after the crucifixion? Leaving the Shroud behind perhaps is another form of a Gospel. A means of spreading the Word and bringing more people to God.
Well, let’s take a walk over to the Smithy’s shop where the acrid smell of burning oil and the steamy sting of hot-dipped steel sweeps off the crucible’s Hellish gleam where the immutable meets the implacable on the hour and every night the work is put away — just to wait another day.
We shan’t linger long for the night’s still strong so come along as we watch the idle hands at play.
Look there, there is a tear and over there a mourning bear, they spin about, go in and out, their motions free and gay, the fabric rips, the players trip and the master leads the clowns; tumbling out we barely hear them shout and only the lifted winds reach our ears as they slowly drown in unheard tears.
I’d love to but an “Office” rerun is on. Another time perhaps. 8~)
Are you auditioning?
But Christ explicitly said the only sign we need is His resurrection.
If Christ thinks that is sufficient for us, I believe Him.
Being stuck on the fifth wheel of life, the idiosyncratic’s load of the ever-burgeoning democratic — forever dragged along behind...
No buckles left to swash, no dragons brave enough to show their fiery snouts to slay; no pluck to truck, too late for Hood or Tuck, our hero slinks away.
Guilty as charged; the ultimate sin. The walls around here have gone quite deaf.
But chin up. Still dragons lurk, under foot and over head, devouring those hid under the bed.
An eternity of flames in exchange for fifteen minutes of temporal glory.A very blind bargain with Satan.
May this so-called scientist seek His forgiveness and publicly renounce his evil mockery before his death.
Well, I would like to see someone attempt to make a rainbow that often stretches for miles across the skies. The purpose of the rainbow isn't for adoration. The purpose of the rainbow is to remind us of a promise of God.
And if your criteria for a relic is to imitate God's miracles, I would remind everyone that the Eygptian magicians were able to duplicate some of God's miracles with their arts. That didn't make God's miracles any less a miracle, nor did it make the magicians' art a miracle.
So far, including this attempt, we have been unable to make the Shroud.
According to this article, they have.
I've seen the photos of it. They haven't. Not even close.
There technique has been done before, too. Failed then, as well.
First you say something is a quote, then when I ask for a citation you try to attribute it somewhere else, then you finally admit it’s not a quote at all. Now you are calling it inconsequential?
If this is what passes for “debate” among the Machenites it’s surprising Machen’s little subsect of a sect is unable to find members.
Correction: NOT surprising.
Actually they aren't found in ANY of them.
Purporting that something is a direct quote when, in fact, it's not even an accurate summary of a direct quote would be an example of bearing false witness would it not?
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