The Shroud of Turin - By Da Vinci or Jesus?
Obviously there really would have been a cloth that Jesus was buried with. It could have gotten some of his blood on it, in the shape of his face and body, and bones. But that's not the divine part.
So, back to the blog post. I just made a comment that the shroud of turin was created by da vinci and it aligned / combined with his drawing: The Vitruvian man. Like I said i'm not the only one who's claimed Da Vinci created the Shroud of Turin, I just found that it combined with one of his drawings. NOt only that but it does some pretty interesting things when it's mirrored on itself. The same type of things that Da Vinci's art does. - hence I think Da Vinci created it.
Leonardo was also friend with the Royal family of TURIN - (Shroud of TURIN remember) so he had access to it.
Well, lets think about it! There is a piece of cloth with the spiritual impression of Jesus on it - which obviously would have had to originate in 32 ad or so - when Jesus died. Then it's documented in 1350.
The science side breaks it down layer by layer and examin what the impression is made out of, how it could have gotten there and explain it as if it were a 3d photograph on a cloth, made out of weird chemicals similar to those used in photography. But 3D.
"Created" .. hmm. So lets think about it. We're talking about a piece of cloth. A particular piece of cloth that's 2000 years old. It's got a picture of Jesus on it. It had to have been around since Jesus died, it was still around in 1350, and it's still around today.
- During that time, it couldn't have been altered?
During that time, it couldn't have been replaced with a different cloth?
- How do we know that the cloth mentioned in 1350 is the one we see today?
- How do we know that it's the same cloth Jesus was buried with?
The shroud gets it's name because of the Royal family of TURIN> Like i said Leonardo was friends with them so he definitely had access to this cloth. Obviously the shroud that touched Jesus would be very valuable. People bow down and worship mummified saint fingers - so imagine how cool a 3d/ photographic, devine shroud from Jesus himself would be? It could even be considered "Proof" of his devinity. So, anyone giving any kind of other explanation wouldn't be accepted.
But here's what urkes me. People who insist on what they want to be true - must be true. Just because they believe it's so. Anything that goes against this is wrong, it must be wrong - or else they would be wrong. And they CANT be wrong, why? Because it challenges their faith, because their faith is who and what they are. There is an emotional attachment. Denial plays a very big part, ignorance even more so.
In high school I wrote 2 papers about Evolution vs Creation being taught in school. My stand was anti evolution and pro-creation. While I was researching I remember going to the pro-creation web sites and the evolution web sites - reading the books and everything. But then afterwards thinking to myself - wait. The arguments for pro-creation dont make sense at all. The earth is less than 8000 years old and all of humanity, and it's animals came from a single boat (source). We're all inbred, jewish, and all the MILLIONS/ Billions of species of animals on earth stemmed from the ones that Noah fit on a single boat? - huh?
Noah had an African and Asian and Forest Elephant on the boat? And a Cobrah, and a rattle snake, and every kind of parrot and insect and horse and zebra and hippo and wolf???? Lions and tigers and bears? All of them? 2 of every kind! even?
I mean to keep the same beliefs about humanity from people who burned "Witches" thought the earth was flat, and kept slaves - come on. We need to learn from our mistakes and not keep making them over and over. It's funny that it's the christians that seem to be the most un-christ like in the world. Thinking they are better than everyone else, going to war over it, killing over it, and casting a lot more than stones.
So yeah. The only thing I have faith in is the truth - whatever that may be. And the belief that I can find it, and the sureness that no one else has come close - besides Jesus himself!