THE TURIN SHROUD IS A FAKE
The Turin Shroud is the most famous relic in the world. Millions believe that it
is the burial cloth of Jesus Christ bearing his crucified and bloodied image.
The cloth is kept at Turin in Italy. The cloth is an enigma. Many say it is a
miracle.
A real Jesus would have had a hard time living rough and would not have had the tall strong muscled body of the Shroud man. He has a strong jawline and evidently shows no sign of having lost teeth to any significant degree. Jodi Magness in her wonderful book Stone, Dung, Oil and Spit shows her remarkable New Testament scholarship and grasp of archeology. She shows that Jesus' culture was not just one where you could be stabbed or bludgeoned to death any moment, but one where insanitary practices and harmful medicine and disease were rampant and affected everybody. Jesus in fact would have probably died in the same year he was nailed anyway. One big issue was teeth. Everybody lost them and everybody had infections and many died of tooth infections.
Jesus was allegedly wrapped in the Shroud of Turin. There is no denying its maker wanted it to be taken for a contact print. But even believers are beginning to deny that it is a contact print. They come up with scenarios where the body and cloth floated and ceased to touch where the image was magicked onto the cloth. The blood stains are positioned as they would be on a painting. A contact print that is not a contact print is simply a forgery.
The shroud image is engineered to make it look like it
was made by pressure. Where the body presses into the cloth you get a stronger
image. Unfortunately this is a sign of deliberate fraud for the back image
should be more intense than the front and it is not. The image is some
form of pressure art. The artist did not want Jesus' rump to be too
apparent.
However the Turin image shows parts of Jesus' body that would not have touched
the cloth.
The media in its non-expert arrogance has fueled the
nonsense spouted by Shroud researchers for stories about the Shroud being real
sell papers. The researchers are too convinced that a body really lay in
the cloth. That is unprovable. Also, they won't admit that even if
the Shroud is authentic that it has been tampered with. They cannot admit
that if the body of Jesus was imaged on to the cloth then somehow his hair for
example was imaged on after and was done wrong for it looks like it was hanging
down as if it were the hair of a man standing up!! There are many other
problems such as the picturelike blood. They cannot admit tampering for
that would suggest that somebody knew how to make the image. Though we can
all be biased, their bias goes too far and ruins their credibility. STURP
and Catholic pro-shroudies are over-anxious to avert any doubts or scepticism.
And there is a light yellow substance that sits on the
fibres making the image on one side and it sometimes appears on the other as
well without passing through the cloth. This happens mostly with the face image
which is another indication that the cloth really just cares about Jesus' face
the most as it would if it were a forgery. It is not a contact print for parts
of the body that would have been inches away from the cloth and could not have
touched it show up clearly. And there would be tell-tale creases. So the cloth
has no hard or soft evidence that it involved a real body or depicts a real man,
as opposed to a statue or something, never mind Jesus. The cloth is meant to
appear as a contact print but it fails. It is meant to fool the untrained eye of
pilgrims. The artist of the shroud perhaps made the image vague so help avoid
detection or to prevent sceptics in the Church from ruling the day. A fraud has
to be rigged up to survive being exposed. Many do. The cloth is really about
appealing to ghouls who want an image of death and blood and gore. It gives no
indication that Jesus miraculously rose from the dead.
Some think the shroud is an artists representation of what Jesus's burial cloth
might have been like. They point out that there is no reason to believe that the
cloth was actually intended to be taken for the real image of Jesus. It cannot
be proven that the image was even made before the 1300's. Given how much God
hates religious error, you would expect him to make sure that the cloth was
certified or something by somebody who was there when Jesus died. He said
religion is about him not what we think so he will not encourage anything that
will get in the way of that. A variation of the artist view is that the cloth is
a miraculous artwork done perhaps by Christ himself - it is not his real image
or shroud.
Some think the shroud is Jesus' real burial shroud and that he imprinted it in
the tomb with the image of his corpse and his blood. These people are forced to
assume that a miracle prevented the natural distortion you would expect from
such a process, that a miracle put the image on and that a miracle put the blood
on without it smearing. That is not science but speculation. Yet those who
indulge in it call themselves scientists!
Most think that the cloth was intended to be taken for the real burial cloth of
Jesus and bearing his image which makes it a forgery.
This article thinks about the shroud in the light of it being intended to be
taken for the real winding sheet of Christ. Is it real or is it a forgery?
Despite
all the strange things that seem to be in the Shroud’s favour, the supporters
choose to ignore proof on the cloth itself that nobody was ever wrapped up in
it. THE TOP OF THE HEAD ITSELF IS NOT SEEN! If the image had been wrapped around
a head you would not see this effect. The cloth should show blood marks and
images as if it were wrapped around the top of a head. Instead, it looks as if
the back and front were put on separately with no connection in between. There
should be a connection if the cloth covered a body. It is like somebody taking a
photo of you from the front and then one from the back and putting them together
with the head on each photo touching. It is not a natural effect when you have a
cloth that a man was supposedly wrapped up in and which went over the top of his
head.
It is bizarre how the face of "Jesus" matches the way medieval people visualised
him. He had long hair and a long face and a beard. Nobody knows what Jesus
looked like but we do know he was not really likely to resemble paintings by
gothic medieval artists.
The blood on the cloth is not real blood. It is said to be anatomically correct
but there is a wide scope for interpreting anatomically correct. Also, it is
easy to make anatomically correct blood images if you do not consider wraparound
distortion. The blood would be messier if there was really a body in the cloth.
The images show no sign of wraparound distortion. It looks like it was intended
for display.
The believers argue that the image was made by radiation. But why can't they
settle for saying they don't know? If there was an image of Charlemagne made the
same way as the shroud they would say it was a mystery and leave it at that. The
radiation theory presupposes the miraculous. You cannot say it is a miracle but
you can only say that it is either supernatural or natural but inexplicable or
unexplainable. Calling something a miracle is saying you don't know how it
happened anyway. The shroud image is not the only mysterious image or item in
the world. If the image can be explained by radiation that does not mean the
explanation is true. And where are the Shrouds made by this radiation just to
prove the theory possible or true?
The errors on the Shroud prove that if there is a mystery about how it was
created, it is still not authentic.
PLEASE VISIT
ULTIMATE LINK FOR DEBUNKING OF TURIN SHROUD:
http://www.historytoday.com/charles-freeman/origins-shroud-turin
BAD ARCHAEOLOGY WEBSITE REFUTES SHROUD:
http://www.badarchaeology.com/?page_id=322
http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/logical-take/201403/let-go-the-shroud-part-i
http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/logical-take/201403/let-go-the-shroud-part-ii
http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/logical-take/201403/let-go-the-shroud-part-iii
http://www.csicop.org/specialarticles/show/fake_turin_shroud_deceives_national_geographic_author
