plus this image is what some scientists who inspected the Shroud of Turin think the image may look like in the positive (the image itself being a negative) ....
plus this image is what some scientists who inspected the Shroud of Turin think the image may look like in the positive (the image itself being a negative) ....
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From the site you linked: “The Bible never gives any physical description of Christ.” “One thing is clear: if it were important for us to know what He really did look like, Matthew, Peter and John, who spent three years with Him, would certainly be able to give us an accurate description, as would His own brothers, James and Jude. Yet, these New Testament writers offer no details about His physical attributes.”
I would agree with their conclusion (and I assume you do also, since you linked to it), it’s not important that we know what Jesus looked like.
As far as the shroud image, I’ll have to admit I fall on the skeptic side. Not because of the carbon dating stuff (which I agree might be inaccurace due to the shroud having been in a fire), but because of what the Bible says about Jesus’ burial cloth.
In Matthew, Mark, and Luke the word translated to English as “wrapped” (And he took it down and wrapped it in a linen cloth-NASB) literally means to roll or wind something around something else. In John, the word used is the same one used to describe someone being bound by chains (So they took the body of Jesus and bound it in linen wrappings-NASB), again wrapping something around something else. In John, when the apostles run to the tomb and look inside they describe the shourd also (and stooping and looking in, he saw the linen wrappings-NASB). The word translated as “linen wrappings” literally means “strips of linens.”
I don’t see how the Shroud of Turin matches what the Bible says. The Bible talks about linen strips being wound or rolled around the body (which was a common burial practice of the Jews at the time.) Not about a large piece of cloth.
Many people plant them as stabilizers for hedges ~ plant 10 Siberian wild roses then 1 Rose of Sharon. Repeat many times and you get a very straight, well-defined hedge.
The references to the Rose of Sharon have to do with how the plant is used, its resilience during times of famine, or when high winds have knocked down your other hedge plants, and its brightly colored blooms.