Early Christianity was a minority group. Up until the fourth century, it was not considered a mainstream view and was commonly persecuted. They were not really accepted by any group, including the Romans and Jews. So, they often did things secretly and communicated in code. We see this in the number of symbols used by …
Why would there be few direct references, either textual or art, to the shroud in the first few centuries? Why is the post resurrection shroud not explicitly mentioned in the Bible? Several reasons why there are no direct references to what happened to the burial cloths: 1. Among the Jews, articles associated with the dead …
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We have been exploring the top proposals for explaining the body image and the best explanation so far is Jackson’s cloth collapse theory. Next to account for is the blood stains. As far as I can tell, no viable artistic method has been proposed to account for the blood stains and there has been no …
Athetotheist wrote: ↑Sat Jun 24, 2023 3:04 pm Yet there’s a clear, dark image of the bottom of one foot—-including the heel. The first photo you posted shows the fabric covering that heel at the same angle at which it would have covered the top of the head—-where there is no image. The angle encoding …
So, what could’ve caused Jesus to dematerialize? We have no naturalistic scenarios to explain this. It would be a miracle. It is not a proof of Jesus’ resurrection, but it would be a rational conclusion given all the evidence from the shroud. The obvious point of weakness in the design argument from the Shroud is …
To summarize the top imaging theories: The imaging theories can be broadly grouped into naturalistic explanations (NE) and non-naturalistic/supernatural explanations (SE). Naturalistic explanations can be subdivided into a work of an artist (NE-art) or something that would happen naturally without any involvement of an artist (NE-nature). NE-art would involve things like painting, scorch, dye, rubbing, …
Evidence that dematerialization of the body occurred is the blood stains are intact and not torn, smeared, or broken. A problem now arises in connection with the tiny fibrils comprising the threads of the blood- impregnated cloth, for these are not torn. It is reasonable to suppose that the blood that was in contact with …
boatsnguitars wrote: ↑Sat Jun 17, 2023 2:54 am So the artist added some pig blood to make it look real and dropped some? OK. Actually, the off body image blood stains match exactly the wounds when the body is wrapped in the shroud. To accidentally drop blood that matches the wound of a wrapped body …
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Robert Rucker theorizes the image is due to neutron emission/absorption. Though his theory attempts to explain the imaging, primarily it is to explain the medieval dating of the 1988 C-14 test. In 1988, the C14 dating methodology was used (Ref. 1, i.e. Damon, et al.) to date samples from the Shroud of Turin to 1260 …
Athetotheist wrote: ↑Thu Jun 15, 2023 12:51 am[Replying to otseng in post #2655 Interestingly, Nickell does not show in the video the final image of the cloth pressed flat, as what we would expect to see. Instead, he shows a a picture taken of cloth pressed against the face. If he had actually showed the cloth stretched …