THE REAL PROOFS
People often seek to prove and support their faith using historic artifacts like the Shroud of Turin. In Jesus’ day when a person was buried, he or she was wrapped in a cloth shroud. Many people have claimed that the Shroud of Turin is the one used for Jesus. It has imprinted upon it what looks like a man who was crucified. It shows stains where the nails would have been and it shows the image of a man’s body. Something unusual must have happened to this cloth because the imprints do not seem natural. Could it be that Jesus’ resurrection caused this to happen? Perhaps, though some evidence suggests that the Shroud was made some centuries after the death of Jesus. The point is that, even if it is the Shroud Jesus was wrapped in, there is probably no way to prove it. But isn’t that what faith is all about: things hoped for and things unseen. It is…
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