Essay On Turin Shroud

Turin Shroud: Ancient Sign from God or Middle Age Fraud?

What do all Christians and most Atheists, Jews, Muslims, Buddhists, and almost every other religious sect have in common? They know the story of Jesus’ crucifixion. The story itself is fairly simple: Man is killed on a cross, man is buried in a tomb, and (according to Christians) man becomes alive again. Regardless of individual beliefs, researchers have been investigating a specific part of the story since almost the Middle Ages: the shroud Jesus was wrapped in. Scientists have been split over whether this could possibly prove the existence of Jesus or whether it was faked for religious reasons. Despite the theory that the Turin Shroud is a hoax created during the Middle Ages, it can be proven that initial carbon dating was incorrect and the way the shroud portrayed Jesus’ wounds were accurate to how crucifixions occurred, rather than what is portrayed in the media, proving that it is real.

According to Scripture, Jesus Christ, said to be the Son of God, was crucified by the Romans for being a false god and speaking against the

Hands out, nails through the palms, feet crossed with nails through the arch of the foot, etc. That’s how images have portrayed the crucifixion to look for centuries. However, Romans knew that hands and feet were not strong enough to support the entire body as it hung on a cross. Even though the accepter artist norm was to pierce the palms, the Shroud shows nail punctures in the wrists, where Romans did attach their victims to their wooden crosses (Adams). This shows that the cloth cannot be a forged painting, because the artist would not have wanted to contradict what was already a typical representation. In addition to the nails, there is also evidence that the man on the image had worn a painful crown of thorns, like Jesus had had, and he had no broken bones, which is consistent with the Bible’s teachings