The Shroud of Turin UPDATE

The Shroud of Turin is a burial cloth containing an image of a scourged and crucified man, which many believe could be the burial cloth of Jesus. No one can explain how the image got onto the cloth, but some have speculated that when Jesus was resurrected, the burse of power transferred the image from His body to the cloth.

In 1988, carbon-14 dating of the Shroud of Turin by three separate laboratories indicated the relic should only be about 700 years old, meaning it couldn’t be the burial cloth of Christ. However, some scholars suggested textiles can easily become contaminated by bacteria and carbon-containing minerals, which would skew the results and show a younger date.

In 2022, a new scientific method known as “Wide-Angle X-ray Scattering,” or WAXS, was used to examine the relic. WAXS is said to be more accurate than C-14 because it measures the actual aging of flax cellulose and converts it to time since manufacture. It dated the Shroud at approximately 2,000 years old. The Italian scientist Dr. Liberato de Caro of Italy’s Institute of Crystallography compared the Shroud with other historical fabrics and it closely matched with a fabric from the siege of Masada in Israel, in 55-74 AD. The findings suggest the shroud originated around the time of Christ, which means it could possibly be the burial cloth of Jesus.

Computer enhanced images reveal that coins were placed over the man’s eyes and the coins were stuck by Pontius Pilate in AD 29-31! For a detailed report CLICK HERE. It was a Jewish custom to close the eyes of their deceased and the placement of coins over their eyelids was a practical way of keeping them shut. These coins prove the Shroud could not be a forgery created by someone centuries later.

Our faith is based on the resurrection of Jesus Christ and not the Shroud of Turin. But wouldn’t it be interesting if God decided to leave ANOTHER piece of evidence that Jesus rose from the dead?  Click Here to watch 6 MINUTE VIDEO ABOUT SHROUD OF TURIN

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Copying the Bible Manuscripts

We wouldn’t have our Bibles today if it weren’t for thousands of people over many centuries carefully copying the manuscripts. The copying was done by scribes, who patiently copied the Scriptures when the original scrolls became too worn to use. The material they wrote on only lasted about 40 years, so the copyists had to keep making new manuscripts to preserve the text from being destroyed. 

To ensure accuracy, the scribes counted every letter on every page they copied. The word for “scribes”, sopherim, literally means, “the counters” because they counted, not only every word, but every letter. The middle letter of the manuscript was marked, as was the middle word of each major section of a book. If the letters of the copy didn’t match up with the original, they destroyed the page and started over.

By the time Jesus was born, the most recent Old Testament book, Malachi, had been copied and recopied more than 400 years. The books of Moses had been copied for more than 1,400 years. Imagine copying the entire book of Exodus without making a mistake.  

Over the last 3,000 years, generation after generation, thousands of scribes spent their lives carefully copying manuscripts to preserve the Bible for future generations. You don’t have to copy the Bible, but have you read the Bible through even one time? Don’t let their labor be in vain. www.makinglifecount.net

MORE STUDY: How Did We Get the Bible?

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