My position on the Shroud: The Shroud of Turin: The Burial Sheet of Jesus! #7

My position on the Shroud: The Shroud of Turin: The Burial Sheet of Jesus! #7

The Shroud of Turin: The Burial Sheet of Jesus!
MY POSITION ON THE SHROUD
© Stephen E. Jones[1]

This is "My position on the Shroud," part #7, of my online book, "The Shroud of Turin: The Burial Sheet of Jesus!" For more information see the Cover, part #1 and Contents #2 of this series.

[Contents #2] [Previous: My Shroud blog #6] [Next: What is the Shroud of Turin? #8]

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0. Preface #3
4. My position on the Shroud #7

My position on the Shroud is summarised in my blog's `masthead':

"I am persuaded by the evidence that the Shroud of Turin is the burial sheet of Jesus Christ and bears His crucified and resurrected image!"

[Above (enlarge)[2]: Close up of the `reversed 3' bloodstain on the left forehead of the man on the Shroud, and showing the crown of thorns puncture wound from which the blood originated. As can be seen, most of this large blood clot on the Shroudman's forehead is intact, while its upper and lower extremities have partially flaked off over foldlines. In fact all of the bloodstains on the Shroud are comprised of intact[3], unbroken[4], unsmeared[5], blood clots[6]. Since this clot, like all of them, would have adhered to both the man's skin and to the cloth, if the Shroud had been removed by human agency, the clot would be ragged along its entire length as when a bandage is removed from a once-bloody wound[7]. But Jesus' resurrected body could pass through solid walls (John 20:19,26)[8], so it could have passed through the no less solid Shroud cloth and dried blood clots, leaving them intact and adhering only to the cloth:

"If Vignon and Barbet are correct ... then the Corpse must have been freed from the Cloth in some quite unusual fashion. For the transfers of the dried blood are intact on the Shroud. Yet when a cloth is detached from a pattern of caked blood, a piece of the blood pattern clings as a rule to the skin. The Resurrection of Christ in His glorified Body would instantly explain this phenomenon ..."[9].

See "Blood clots intact #24" of this series.]

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Continued in part #8 of this series.

Notes
1. This post is copyright. I grant permission to quote from any part of this post (but not the whole post), provided it includes a reference citing my name, its subject heading, its date, and a hyperlink back to this page. [return]
2. Latendresse, M., 2010, "Shroud Scope: Durante 2002: Face Only Vertical," Sindonology.org. [return]
3. Wuenschel, E.A., 1954, "Self-Portrait of Christ: The Holy Shroud of Turin," Holy Shroud Guild: Esopus NY, Third printing, 1961, pp.51-52; Bulst, W., 1957, "The Shroud of Turin," McKenna, S. & Galvin, J.J., transl., Bruce Publishing Co: Milwaukee WI, pp.74,144; Stevenson, K.E. & Habermas, G.R., 1981, "Verdict on the Shroud: Evidence for the Death and Resurrection of Jesus Christ," Servant Books: Ann Arbor MI, pp.156, 218; Morgan, R., 1982, "Shroud Symposium, New London," Shroud News, No 11, February 1982, pp.3-10, 6; Habermas, G.R., 1984a, "Ancient Evidence for the Life of Jesus," Thomas Nelson: Nashville TN, p.159; Habermas, G.R., 1984b, "Turin, Shroud of ," in Elwell, W.A., ed., "Evangelical Dictionary of Theology," Baker Book House: Grand Rapids MI., 1990, Seventh printing, p.1116; De Vincenzo, V., 1994, "12 Reasons Why I Cannot Accept the Carbon-14 Test Results on the Holy Shroud of Turin," Shroud News No 82, April, pp.3-13, 8; Barbet, P., 1987, "Proof of the Authenticity of the Shroud in the Bloodstains: Part II," Shroud Spectrum International, No. 23, June, pp.3-15, 14. [return]
4. Stevenson & Habermas, 1981, p.156; Morgan, 1982, p.6; Cruz, 1984, p.53; Antonacci, 2000, p.33. [return]
5. Stevenson & Habermas, 1981, p.156; Morgan, 1982, p.6; Cruz, J.C., 1984, "Relics: The Shroud of Turin, the True Cross, the Blood of Januarius ... : History, Mysticism, and the Catholic Church," Our Sunday Visitor: Huntington IN, p.53; De Vincenzo, 1994. "12 Reasons Why I Cannot Accept the Carbon-14 Test Results on the Holy Shroud of Turin," Shroud News No 82, April, pp.3-13, 8; Antonacci, M., 2000, "Resurrection of the Shroud: New Scientific, Medical, and Archeological Evidence," M. Evans & Co: New York NY, p.33. [return]
6. Barbet, 1953, pp.28-29; Borkan, M., 1995, "Ecce Homo?: Science and the Authenticity of the Turin Shroud," Vertices, Duke University, Vol. X, No. 2, Winter, pp.18-51, 27. [return]
7. Bulst, 1957, pp.74, 144. [return]
8. Antonacci, 2000, p.235. [return]
9. Bulst, 1957, p.144 n.219. [return]

Posted 30 December 2019. Updated 28 September 2022.