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Everything about the Shroud rings true: It is the material used for
burial shrouds 2000 years ago in the area of the Holy Land. There is
a wound indicated in the chest area. There is the exact
number of lashes from a whipping on the back as stated in the Bible.
Religious portraits of stigmata are not accurate when they show wounds in
the palm of the hands. Nails, creating the wounds in the palms,
could not hold the body on the cross. Tests on cadavers prove that
bones in the hand are not strong enough to sustain a body's weight.
Nails rip through hand bones and the body falls. On the Shroud, the
wounds are at the wrist which can sustain the weight of a
body. A religious forger, making a fraudulent Shroud would have
placed the wounds in the palms...not at the wrists. The crown of
thorns was not a round wreath as we also see in religious portrayals, but a hat
of thorns. The trails of blood on Turin's burial cloth are sensible;
they conform to the flow of gravity. Also...why is there blood at
all when the body was cleaned, then wrapped and the fact that no blood flows
from a corpse?
The most amazing evidence to the reality of the Shroud is that it is a
PHOTOGRAPHIC NEGATIVE. Secondo Pia was the Shroud's first
photographer. The Italian photographed this faint image on a
light-colored material. To his great surprise, when Pia examined his
negatives, there was a positive image! By photographing the
negative, you have created a positive. The faint image became a
light image on a black background. Details emerged that astounded
viewers and enlarged the Shroud's controversy.
What could have formed this negative? It certainly was not
a 1000 year old artist faking a holy relic. Some say the image
captures the moment of Christ's resurrection. Others say that
the image was a scorching emanating out due to RADIATION. There were
reports that after the Hiroshima blast, pieces of glass were found with
negative images of people's faces. These were people who had their faces
near windows when the atomic bomb exploded. Radiation does cause negative
imprinting.
What is it that tells scientists that the Shroud of TURIN is a
fake? Answer: Carbon 14. Are you so sure that
Carbon 14 is accurate? Science needs an UNDER-estimate for many
ancient mysteries that baffle us and do not fit the traditional
picture. In the same way, Science needs a Rosetta Stone (which also
is untrue)...so they can think they understand something that is not
understandable. Mysterious artifacts are much older than what
Carbon 14 indicates. Traditional scientists say there was a smooth
progression of knowledge and technology; in the past, it was primitive and in
modern times...it is advanced. Anything that disturbs this narrow
(flat-Earth) view is not accepted. Carbon 14 is perfect for this
agenda.
The truth is the mysterious relics of the past are even more
mysterious. The truth is you have to take the date Carbon 14 gives
you and multiply it by at least a factor of 3.
[This writer knew this back in the 1970s. When I heard that they
were going to date the Shroud with Carbon 14, I thought to myself:
NO! My sources told me exactly what is stated in the
above paragraph.]
The Shroud was tested with Carbon 14 and the rest is history. Now, the
scientific world does not believe in the Turin relic because their holy
measuring device said it was only 6-700 years old. Scientists are supposed
to be open-minded, not stuck to a canon of unchanging principles. Maybe
there are some things that we have to take on a little bit of faith.
Comments? Email Doug at: dugko@surfside.net
Additional articles also written by Doug:
Buckminster Fuller: The World Is Round
Who Stops to Question The Man in the Moon?
Betty Hill's Star Map vs Real Astronomy
Wireless World
Life Inside Venus?
© 2002 - D.Y.
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