![]() Instead, the empty tomb the testimony of eye witnesses to the risen Christ the failure of alternative explanations by skeptics and the radically changed lives of those who talked, ate, and saw Jesus ascend back into the clouds give believers sufficient hope for tomorrow and power for today. The stakes are as high today as they were two millennia ago when the Apostle Paul confessed to the church in Corinth, “If Christ has not been raised, your faith is futile you are still in your sins.” 2īut few Christians base their belief in the resurrection on whether the Shroud of Turin is authentic. To be sure, Christianity stands or falls on the truth of the resurrection. ![]() Now the prevailing belief in the secular media and academia is that the shroud is a hoax.īut is it really? And, if so, how would this affect the evidence that Christ indeed rose from the dead as portrayed in Scripture? The Shroud and the Resurrection 1 This date, more than 1,200 years after the death of Christ, was widely reported as definitive. However, the verdict from the carbon-14 (C-14) test put the date of the shroud at between 12 CE. Said to be the burial cloth of Jesus Christ, the shroud contains the unmistakable image of a man with wounds consistent with those endured by Jesus in the crucifixion accounts in the Bible. ![]() In October 1988, members of the international media gathered expectantly at the British Museum in London to hear the verdict from science on the authenticity of one of Christianity’s most famous relics: the Shroud of Turin.
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