Courtroom analogy

TRANSPONDER wrote: ↑Sun Sep 26, 2021 8:40 am … but whether they undermine the credibility of the Bible as an accurate record of events, forget about supposed dictation by God. I hate to labour the point, but contradictions/discrepancies with verified information as well as itself, is what does for Bible credibility. And when the claim …

No decomposition

It is my opinion that no signs of postmortem decomposition appear on the Shroud image and that there appears clear evidence that the body was in a state of rigor mortis when placed in the Shroud. https://www.shroud.com/pdfs/ssi14part3.pdf The man on the shroud shows no obvious evidence of postmortem decomposition. The problem, however, becomes more acute …

Type AB blood

According to tests done by Baima Bollone, the blood on the shroud is of type AB. The human blood is of AB group. https://www.shroud.com/pdfs/doclist.pdf For the reasons indicated, we are therefore in a position to conclude that the traces of Shroud blood which we examined belong to the AB group. https://www.shroud.com/pdfs/ssi06part3.pdf AB blood type is …

Whip marks

In addition to scourging, image processing of the shroud also reveal 2 additional types of whip marks. New image processing of the TS confirms the presence of 3 different kinds of scourge marks, related to the use of at least 2 different kinds of whips on the TS and much more faint; they look like …

No broken bones

The man on the shroud has no broken bones. In particular, none of the bones in the legs are broken. No broken bones are evident on the body image. https://www.shroud.com/pdfs/doclist.pdf This is especially relevant since breaking the leg bones was frequently done for crucified victims to hasten their death. Frequently, the legs of the person …

Facial wounds

In addition to the blood from the crown of thorns, there are also facial wounds: – Swelling of right cheek – Partial closure of right eye – Abrasian and deviation of the nose – Part of beard missing – Possible displacement of jaw On the face over the right cheek, there is a swelling and …

Ai

Recreation of the Khirbet el-Maqatir fortress https://biblearchaeology.org/current-ev … us-ephraim After the destruction of Jericho, the next city they attacked was Ai. Josh 7:2-5 (NIV) 2 Now Joshua sent men from Jericho to Ai, which is near Beth Aven to the east of Bethel, and told them, “Go up and spy out the region.” So the …

Jericho uninhabited for a long period of time

After the destruction by fire at Jericho, the city was uninhabited for a long period of time. “Tell es-Sultan remained unoccupied from the end of the 15th to the 10th-9th centuries BCE, when the city was rebuilt.” https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tell_es-Sultan After its destruction by the Israelites it was, according to the biblical account, abandoned until Hiel the …