VCF Christian Fellowship

The VCF should enable…

  • Christian perspectives on events

    Votes: 7 87.5%
  • Encouragement

    Votes: 7 87.5%
  • Sharing experiences

    Votes: 7 87.5%
  • Prayer

    Votes: 7 87.5%
  • Friendship

    Votes: 7 87.5%
  • Sharing helpful teaching

    Votes: 6 75.0%
  • Fostering understanding of different points of view

    Votes: 2 25.0%

  • Total voters
    8
  • Poll closed .

Red Sky at Morning

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The Shroud of Turin

The Shroud is woven flax, made by a professional-quality weaver, which was likely only to have been owned by a wealthy man
(e.g., Joseph of Arimathea).

The flax fibers are traceable to the Eastern Mediterranean or the Middle East.
The stitching is identical to an artifact found at Masada in Israel, dated between 40 BC and AD 73.

And the cloth has been otherwise dated to between 300 BC and 300 AD.

Chemical and biological testing proves that there are blood stains on the Shroud, of blood type AB and antigen group MNS.

Moreover, there are no paint pigments of any kind on the Shroud—eliminating the possibility that the Shroud is some sort of supremely clever artistic forgery.

The Shroud bears the image of a grown male, five feet eleven inches tall, with shoulder length hair and a beard—a man who had suffered crucifixion in the Roman fashion.
 

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I offered my back to those who beat me,
my cheeks to those who pulled out my beard;
I did not hide my face
from mocking and spitting.

Isaiah 50:6

If you believe that was a prophecy about Christ's torture then you have to conclude that Christ is not the figure on the shroud.
 
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