Is the Shroud of Turin a fake?
Quick-read this article: Some people believe the Shroud of Turin is the cloth that covered Jesus Christ during His burial. There are strong biblical and scientific reasons why it may not be. We urge our readers against hastily accepting it as genuinely showing an image of the body of Jesus Christ. Many people believe that the famous Shroud of Turin is the cloth that covered Jesus Christ at His burial. There are serious problems with this view, even if we ignore carbon dating tests in 1988 that showed the cloth may be only 600 or 700 years old. We admit that carbon dating can give crazy results, and carbon dating results from the shroud have brought major criticisms, so this is not proof of the shroud’s age. Even so, there are serious problems with the view that this shroud shows a picture of Christ. • It is clear from the Bible and from Jewish burial customs that several pieces of cloth bound Christ at His burial — not one large sheet like the shroud. • In John 20:5-7 we find there was
