(September 15, 2015 at 6:22 pm)Randy Carson Wrote:(September 13, 2015 at 9:52 pm)Jenny A Wrote: I don't know enough about St. Peter's bones to opine. But anyone who bothers to look at the proportions of the body depicted on the shroud of Turin knows it's a fake. No real person has those proportions, but art made at the time it first surfaced did. Surely if Jesus were monstrously out of proportion to the extent of being a freak of nature, someone would have mentioned it? It's not even as if it's a genetic defect commonly found or recognized it's not. No one has those proportions. It's as if the shroud first came to light ten or fifteen years ago in Japan and had the huge eyes and bodily proportions of anime cartoons.
Oh---- Welcome back Randy.
One other question:
How is it that the intensity of the image on the shroud translates into a near-perfect 3D image of a man?
It wasn't until a few years ago that we had the technology to recognize and capture that image...how did an artist capture that data on a linen cloth with an image that is no more than a micron or two deep in the fibers?
Either this cloth is the real deal OR it is the most amazing icon ever created.
Yep, Jesus was crucified and wrapped like a mummy in Joe's tomb. Then after three days he popped wide awake and unwrapped himself and left the tomb to go fishing. Someone came along and thought it would be a great idea to keep the smelly rags as a souvenir so he took it back to his hovel. When guests came over he proudly showed them the bloody smelly rags. Then the person died but the rag was his main asset so it passed to his son. One day the crap hit the fan and the Romans sacked Jerusalem and carted everyone off in chains to build the Colosseum. While poking through the rubble a Roman soldier saw the rag fluttering in the breeze and thought that it would make the best war trophy of all time to show the folks back in Italy so he quickly put it in his sack.
Time passes and the Roman soldier finally makes it back to Italy and home to his family. He then shows them the blood rag and they ask "WTF is that?" He tells them that it's a magic bloody rag that some spirit told him to take because thousands of years in the future it will be proof that some Jew had died in Jerusalem. So they said "that's a cool story, bro." Time passes with all kinds of wars and disasters swirling around the magic rag that stayed safe from moths and mildew and processes that destroyed other textiles. And then, centuries after that unknown Roman soldier took the bloody rag from Jerusalem to his home in Italy some guy saw it and said "holy crap, it's Jesus!"
True story.
