[GreyFriar]

Regarding “dating tests carried out in 1988 were seriously flawed.” A friend told me that he read an article sometime after the 1988 tests that one of the people, possibly a Sister, who was directed to snip off fragments of the cloth, clipped, not that Shroud, but cloth from one of the repairs that are evident on it...thus the carbon dating showed the date of when one of the burnt portions was repaired, NOT the date of the Shroud itself.

I think it is our Savior’s shroud, but if it is proven that it is not -— My faith in Jesus will not change.

[HiTech RedNeck]

That seems almost perverse, that the dating scientists even picked the wrong place to get a piece. Someone who understood the shroud’s history ought to have guided them, and still even could.

[zot]

Thanks for the good point at post 9. I agree.

[heterosupremacist]

#9 "A friend told me that he read an article sometime after the 1988 tests that one of the people, possibly a Sister, who was directed to snip off fragments of the cloth, clipped, not that Shroud, but cloth from one of the repairs that are evident on it... ...thus the carbon dating showed the date of when one of the burnt portions was repaired, NOT the date of the Shroud itself." Also, the four corners of the shroud which were fire-damaged were also on the outside edges of the Shroud, which was handled many times by the Clergy, as they displayed it to the faithful, thus it was contaminated by their DNA and would have eo ipsodistorted the dating of the Shroud. Research has shown two different dates, one of the original, and another dated from centuries later, YOU decide...

[Swordmaker]

Regarding “dating tests carried out in 1988 were seriously flawed.” A friend told me that he read an article sometime after the 1988 tests that one of the people, possibly a Sister, who was directed to snip off fragments of the cloth, clipped, not that Shroud, but cloth from one of the repairs that are evident on it...thus the carbon dating showed the date of when one of the burnt portions was repaired, NOT the date of the Shroud itself.

Uh, no, but it was a repaired area that incorporated both new and old material that had the new skillfully re-woven into the old using a technique called French Invisible Reweaving developed in the 16th Century to repair expensive tapestries. The mixture distorted the C-14 dating test.