For Easter and the Resurrection of Jesus, I thought I'd bring back the overview page of the many powerful scientific evidences for the Resurrection of Jesus of Nazareth! The Shroud of Turin, the world's most-studied ancient artifact, is simply stunning and unexplainable. It was studied for many years by a scientific team composed of some of the world's most-respected researchers from a variety of scientific backgrounds and expertise. Yep, you might have read articles that you think have debunked the Shroud per carbon tests - well,you might well be shocked at what you'll learn on this page about how the tests were conducted and that the methodology and process was hidden - and only a court order finally revealed the details of this. And that the testing was not only done secretly, but on a (medieval) REPAIRED section of the Shroud, as it had been in a fire! As the evidence is stunning, powerful, and quite convincing. Be prepared to be amazed!
(See the bottom to see what you must believe in order to consider the Shroud to be a faked relic!)
The Shroud of Turin, long believed by many to have been the burial wrapping of the crucified and RISEN Jesus of Nazareth, is likely the most studied artifact of all time. In fact, a world-class team (STURP: Shroud of Turin Research Project) of top scientists and experts in multiple relevant disciplines spent many years analyzing its many extraordinary attributes. The scientific team was composed of agnostics and unbelievers as well. Some of the following has been posted in the past, but what follows is a hugely powerful collection of video and other links explaining the Shroud and providing the latest amazing evidences which, in my opinion, reveal the Shroud to be the actual burial wrapping of the crucified and RESURRECTED Jesus of Nazareth!
It has been asserted by many skeptics that the Shroud is simply medieval-faked artifact. And HEALTHY and informed skepticism is always a good thing. However, for those more knowledgeable and up to date on the latest research, easily dismissing the Shroud to be a medieval fake is exceptionally ignorant, given the level of scientific and expert scrutiny and study it has now undergone - much of which has been ignored by the popular media. Even today, using tools and techniques available to those in the medieval era, no one has come close to replicating such a detailed image. The image has been proven to not have been produced with any kind of paint and the bloodstains are real. In fact, no one can determine HOW the image was produced. A widely hypothesis considered by scientists, as to how the image became embedded in the cloth, is that a massive burst of energy was released at the exact moment of its embedment - again, consistent with the power of Christ's Resurrection. Look carefully at the high-resolution, scanned image of the Shroud (above). In the first place, it is anatomically perfect and has the precise wounds and features that Scripture describes of Jesus’ horrific beatings, wounds, piercing - as it IS that of an ancient, crucified man. And it’s not just that NO medieval artist – OR any artist TODAY - could produce this incredible image on woven cloth – as it is, astoundingly, a THREE-DIMENSIONAL / SPATIAL image! AND this image (above) is actually a scanned and greatly enhanced POSITIVE of what is actually a faintly NEGATIVE image on the cloth – this, asserted (at its oldest / even by skeptics) to still have been produced hundreds of years before photography was even invented!
Exactly how old is the historical documentation referencing the Shroud’s existence? Extra-Biblical historical sources, including apocryphal sources, show clear references to the Shroud as early as the 3rd century (216 A.D.). Read about them here:
https://www.academia.edu/77698059/Histo ... _Centuries
The Shroud has also tested positive for plant pollens unique and native to ONLY a VERY narrow area around Jerusalem. Botanist Avinoam Danin of The Hebrew University of Jerusalem submitted to the peer-reviewed publication of the Missouri Botanical Garden Press a comprehensive analysis of pollens taken from the Shroud, as well as plant images associated with it. Read about his research and conclusions here: https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/1 ... 073154.htm
Didn’t the widely reported 1988 carbon 14 testing reveal a medieval date for the Shroud, thus debunking it to be associated with Jesus? NO!!! It has now been conclusively proven that the 1988 testing was done on a REPAIRED edge- a sampled cutting - as it was damaged in a fire - which is the ONLY reason it was ever asserted to have been created during the medieval era. As the medieval period was when the REPAIRS were made, with proof now available, revealing the samples for the carbon testing were done upon cloth-repaired portions added and interwoven with the damaged edges of he far-older (first century) cloth of the Shroud. Not only that, but revealing the suppression of the related samplings' information required legal actions, which was finally released and forced through a court order. The details surrounding the fraudulent actions surrounding the 1988 sampling and results are attested to here, by Barrie M. Schwortz, the official documenting photographer and STURP team member, in this interview: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AyRU-0uH2rw - And Schwortz’ bio can be found here: https://www.schwortz.com/bio.pdf
New peer-reviewed date for Shroud of Turin (also discusses how and why the first, widely reported the 1988 C-14 dating results are flawed): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vtIZrc5fGEE
And here, in the MDPI peer-reviewed journal, are the published results and methodology of a NEW and proven testing technique (Wide-Angle X-ray Scattering – WAXS - that places the Shroud’s origins within the historical window of time of a first century date: https://www.mdpi.com/2571-9408/5/2/47
Stunning video discusses the three-dimensional / spatial aspects on the image on the Shroud of Turn - including its likely, revealed MOVEMENT:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HgG9m7cqx68
Other interesting items discovered on the Shroud of Turin:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w43ov5aA-ko
Various experts discuss their take on the Shroud:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wufqlW8QYWs
To believe that the Shroud is a fraud, one must think that:
1) Nearly 19 centuries before photography was invented, and ancient fraudster created an anatomically perfect negative of an ancient, crucified man, with wounds and scarring that perfectly match the descriptions in Scripture of the crucified Jesus of Nazareth.
2) A modern scientific team using the latest technology cannot reproduce or explain the negative image on the Shroud. It's not paint or dye, and it does contain human blood.
3) That, at a time when faked artifacts of purported pieces of the wood from Christ's cross or His supposed chalice easily mislead a pre-scientific age public, eager to buy or believe in such relics, what would have the motivation - much less,who would even have the expertise (that still cannot be replicated with modern technology), to create such an image?
4) That a ancient faker would try to fool people with a NEGATIVE image - at a time when no such thing existed or would have even registered or been understood - as the image is very faint up close, and was only known to be a negative image when it was first photographed from above, around 1900.
5) That the image just HAPPENS to have key plant pollens unique to plants ONLY found in the area of Israel near Jerusalem. Ancients didn't even know what pollens were!
6) That a fraudster not only could have produced a stunning, perfect (and NEGATIVE) image, but ALSO would have known or possessed the expertise to create such an amazing image containing three-dimensional spatial data (see the image at the top - as it is NOT a flat image).
7) That the Shroud has a weaving consistent with first-century techniques highly evident could have been known about by any medieval forger.
Lastly, the Shroud, many centuries before it was discovered to have a human image upon it, also just happened to also have been in Christian hands and long thought to be the burial cloth of Christ - and had already long been revered as such.
The Shroud of Turin has so many miraculous aspects that are inexplicable, non-replicatable - and the fact that it even has been preserved for two thousand years, survived two documented fires - well, these are all, collectively, evidences I would find consistent with an artifact connected to the Resurrection of Jesus Christ!
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Philip