Quote:"This is a burial cloth that wrapped the remains of a crucified man in full correspondence with what the Gospels tell us of Jesus," Benedict said.Benedict apparently hasn't read the Gospels carefully. John 20:6,7 describes the burial clothes which had been left behind in the tomb, "He saw the lines cloths lying there, and the fact cloth, which had been on Jesus' head, not lying with the linen cloths but folded up in a place by itself." This doesn't sound to me as if Jesus was wrapped in a shroud for his burial.
There is one other place in the Bible that gives information on how people were prepared for burial. John chapter 11 tells how Jesus raised Lazarus from the dead. Verse 44 says, "The man who had died came out, his hands and feet bound with linen strips, and his face wrapped in a cloth." It appears that it was the custom of the Jews to wrap the dead in strips of cloth in a way similar to the way the Egyptians wrapped up mummies for burial. The practice of wrapping corpses in a shroud didn't come into use until later.
His invisible attributes, namely, his eternal power and divine nature, have been clearly perceived, ever since the creation of the world, in the things that have been made. So they are without excuse.
Romans 1:20 ESV
Romans 1:20 ESV
