Hi Bob,
And hello Jane as well. Caught your post here and would like to get back on the topic as well when time permits.
Just a comment on the Shroud of Turin, it is a one piece cloth which would have been used in a fashion not common with typical burial methods of that day to produce such an image. (At least not from what I have read of the customs of that day)
More importantly scripture itself refutes it being the burial cloth of Jesus as follows:
John 20
3 Peter therefore went forth, and that other disciple, and came to the sepulchre.
4 So they ran both together: and the other disciple did outrun Peter, and came first to the sepulchre.
5 And he stooping down, and looking in, saw the linen clothes lying; yet went he not in.
6 Then cometh Simon Peter following him, and went into the sepulchre, and seeth the linen clothes lie,
7 AND THE NAPKIN, THAT WAS ABOUT HIS HEAD, NOT LYING WITH THE LINEN CLOTHES, BUT WRAPPED TOGETHER IN A PLACE BY ITSELF.
My apologies for the bold print, I still cannot figure how to italicize.
Additionaly we can judge a tree by the fruit it bears as scripture tells us, and it breaks my heart to see video footage of people literally praying to this thing which we know God would not condone being idolatry.
What do you think?
God bless you both,
John |
