Shroud Of Turin Essay Conclusion

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My first recollection of being introduced to The Shroud of Turin occurred when I was eleven years old. My parents had offered my brother and sister and me the opportunity to visit Italy instead of celebrating our traditional Christmas. While there, we visited the Christian catacombs and in the souvenir shop, they had these 4 x 6 pictures that depicted a painting of Jesus, but when tilted, showed a head shot of The Shroud of Turin. Unsure of what I was seeing, I asked my father to explain it. He said the Shroud head shot was part of a much larger image that showed the front and back of a crucified man that matched the Bible’s Gospel narrative exactly. This cloth was kept in a church in Turin, Italy, thus the name. He said many people, including scholars, believed the Shroud had wrapped the actual body of Jesus, while others believed it was a medieval forgery. My initial reaction was that there was no way the burial cloth of the historical Jesus had made it to modern times. It had to be a fake. However, after investigating the topic of the Shroud, my views soon changed. The bulk of the evidence is in favor of the Shroud of Turin being the authentic burial cloth of Jesus Christ.
What exactly is the Shroud of Turin? The Shroud is an ivory colored linen cloth measuring 14 feet 3 inches long by 3 feet 7 inches wide. The interesting thing about this size cloth is that it matches up with the 1st century Jewish cubit exactly measuring 8 x 2 cubits. The Shroud is a single piece cloth with a 3 in 1 herringbone weave, a type of weave that was prevalent in Jesus’s time. On the cloth, is the superficial image of the front and back of what appears to be a scourged and crucified man. The man is nude, approximately 6 feet tall with long hair and a...

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...formed. Radiation could be one possible explanation.

It is my belief, based on the evidence, that the Shroud either wrapped the body of Jesus or it was made by a forger who wanted to create the false belief that it wrapped the body of Jesus.
If you are to believe that the Shroud is a forgery you would have to accept the following facts. The forger made the Shroud by a method as yet unknown to modern science. They did the Shroud in a "negative" image some 400 years before the invention of photography. The Shroud is unique in that there are no known Shrouds like it. They applied real male blood. They did it with Jesus nude which was rare in paintings at the time. The wounds were in the wrist unlike most art work that had the wounds in the hand. They were able to somehow encode 3D information into the Shroud. They applied pollen specific to the Jerusalem area.

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