Chapter 10: Relic ReLook

I reckon with Divine intervention all sorts of things are possible...

Science said it would have been impossible for me to be cloned from the blood on the Shroud, as a blood sample so old would surely have been too degraded.

If you are someone who has bought, hook line and sinker, the carbon dating results on the Shroud, consider two things:

First— There is recent scientific evidence to refute the carbon dating results. Namely, the samples used in the carbon dating were a mix of 1st century and 16th century cloth (because that particular section of the Shroud had been repaired). The reweaving of threads from two different centuries certainly impacts the notion that the carbon dating results are the “final word” in this mystery.

Second— No one has ever been able to explain how the image got onto the cloth (even those who believe in the carbon dating results). And if it was a Medieval hoax, as those who trust the carbon dating samples insist, then how could someone living during the Middle Ages have placed the image on the cloth without having access to the technologies required to do so (technologies that had not yet been invented).

It is stunning to think that we might literally have the burial cloth of Jesus Christ in our midst and the world barely blinks an eye.

ReLook--at the relic. This mystery has not yet been solved...