New Study: Shroud of Turin May Be Authentic Burial Cloth of Christ

Though the study, published in the journal Heritage, falls short of concluding whether the shroud was actually Jesus’s burial cloth, it dates its origin to 2,000 years ago.

“The experimental results are compatible with the hypothesis that the Turin Shroud is a 2000-year-old relic,” it says, claiming previous analysis might have been flawed due to contamination.

Researchers say cellulose contained in the shroud’s fibres has aged slowly since the 14th century due to lower room temperatures in Europe.

This means that most of the cloth’s natural ageing, about 90 per cent, ocurred before the 1300s.

Ed Morrissey

I've always felt there was more to the Shroud than the carbon-14 dating led us to believe. However, my faith does not rest on whether the Shroud is authentic. My faith rests on the revealed Word of God and Jesus Christ.

Still, if this study can be backed up by further evidence (and there is a need for more study, as the article goes on to explanation), it raises even more questions, and very interesting ones, too. For instance: If this wasn't the authentic burial cloth of Christ, how did the images get burned into it? And even better: why would anyone else's burial cloth have been preserved for 2,000 years?

New Study: Shroud of Turin May Be Authentic Burial Cloth of Christ

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