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EDITORIAL: Did Jesus already know that 21st-century technology would be the only way to confirm his resurrected reality to an increasingly irreligious society?
Close-up of the Shroud of Turin. (photo: Godongphoto / Shutterstock)
Reports about recent scientific findings that appear to support the authenticity of the Shroud of Turin garnered widespread coverage in secular media outlets last month.
But none of those media accounts delved into this central question: Assuming the image visible on the fabric of the shroud really is that of the Crucified Christ — supernaturally imprinted there by Jesus himself, as he lay in the tomb between his crucifixion on Good Friday and his resurrection on the first Easter Sunday — why did the Son of God choose to leave behind this scientifically verifiable evidence of his death on the cross?
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Reports about recent scientific findings that appear to support the authenticity of the Shroud of Turin garnered widespread coverage in secular media outlets last month.
But none of those media accounts delved into this central question: Assuming the image visible on the fabric of the shroud really is that of the Crucified Christ — supernaturally imprinted there by Jesus himself, as he lay in the tomb between his crucifixion on Good Friday and his resurrection on the first Easter Sunday — why did the Son of God choose to leave behind this scientifically verifiable evidence of his death on the cross?
Continued below.
A Shroud for Our Skeptical Times
EDITORIAL: Did Jesus already know that 21st-century technology would be the only way to confirm his resurrected reality to an increasingly irreligious society?