scientific group that examined the shroud, unanimously reported that "the image on the cloth is not the result of applied materials." In their estimation, the man on the shroud was not painted on the cloth and that an unknown event of oxidation selectively darkened certain fibrils of the threads so as to make a superficial image of a man with accurate details valid when magnified 1,000 times. In October 1978, the Shroud of Turin Research Project, the U.S. "If Christ was resurrected from the dead," Rogers stated, "then the gospels are true, and eternal life is offered to all."
In his view -and in that of many others -the Shroud of Turin answers the eternal question of whether humans can achieve immortality. Ray Rogers is one of a number of scientists who believes that the burial cloth is truly the shroud of Jesus Christ. Since its second examination in 1978, the Shroud of Turin has been hailed by some as physical proof of Jesus' Resurrection from the dead and his triumph over the grave, while others have condemned it as a hoax crafted by medieval monks who sought to create the ultimate in holy relics for spiritual pilgrims to venerate. The chest cavity is expanded, as if the victim had been trying desperately to draw air into the lungs, a common occurrence and a typical physical response during crucifixion. A number of puncture wounds appear around the head, and one cheek displays a pronounced bruise. The man's right shoulder is chafed, as if from having borne a rough, heavy object. In addition, the image is said by investigators to bear the marks of whip lashes on the back. The right side of the man's chest was pierced. The impressions on the shroud are of a tall man with a beard, his hands crossed with the imprints of nails through the wrists and feet. Had been used to wrap a crucified man in its folds. After his apparent death, a spear was thrust into his side by a Roman soldier.Ĭertain researchers have declared the front and the back images on the Shroud of Turin to be anatomically correct if the cloth
The gospel accounts of Jesus' Crucifixion state that he was whipped and beaten by Roman soldiers, who placed a crown of thorns on the head of the man who was identified as the "King of the Jews." The beating completed completed, Jesus was marched through the streets of Jerusalem bearing the wooden cross on his back before he was nailed to its horizontal bar at the place of execution. Neither could the image have been placed on the shroud by any ordinary application of heat, they argue, or the fibers would have been scorched. Many of the experts who have examined the shroud insist that the image was not painted on the cloth, for the portrait is not absorbed into the fibers. Department of Energy, explains one hypothesis that draws a parallel between the mysterious images on the shroud "and the fact that images were formed on stones by fireball radiation from the atomic bomb at Hiroshima." A statement issued by the Los Alamos Laboratory, operated by the University of California for the U.S. Such a view is in harmony with gospel references to a brilliant light from heaven and the process of transformation undergone by Jesus at the moment of his Resurrection after three days in the tomb. As for the remarkable image imprinted on the shroud, Los Alamos chemist Ray Rogers, stated his opinion that the impression had been formed by "a burst of radiant energy - light, if you will." Although at that time the researchers were unable to date the cloth with certainty, scientists at the Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory in New Mexico announced that the burial shroud appeared to be authentic, woven of a type of linen typically used in Jewish burials in the Holy Land about 30 c.e., thus approximating the date of Jesus' Crucifixion. The fourteen-by-four-foot shroud has been kept under guard in a Roman Catholic chapel in Turin, Italy, since 1452, and it has been previously examined by technical investigators in 19. 30 c.e.)? Is the full-sized human image impressed on its coarse fibers the actual physical representation of Jesus as he lay in the tomb after his death by crucifixion at the hands of Roman soldiers? When looking at the shroud, is one seeing a kind of supernatural photograph of Jesus that can accurately depict his actual human appearance? Is this cloth truly the authentic burial shroud of Jesus of Nazareth (c. In the fall of 1978, the ancient Shroud of Turin was exhibited publicly for the first time since 1933, thus rekindling the fires of controversy that have raged intermittently around this icon since the first century c.e.
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