The Shroud of Turin is purported to be the cloth in which Christ was wrapped and then entombed. It would be incredible enough to possess such an artifact, but the wonder of it is compounded a thousand-fold when one considers that there is a photo-like image on the cloth bearing the resemblance of a crucified man, who was not only crucified, but crowned with thorns, scourged, and pierced through the heart with a spear.

The three-dimensional image of a human body appears only when one photographs the shroud and studies the negative image (that is, the reverse image), as occurred in 1898.

The shroud was carbon-dated in 1988, but the sample was taken from a repaired edge. Curiously (and stupidly), no other part of the shroud was sampled. The dating placed the shroud in the 1300’s, but this result has been throughly controverted—to my satisfaction, anyway.

In 2022, another method was conducted, this one with radiation measuring the decay of flax cellulose. The test dated the shroud to the first-century.

Many people think the shroud is a clever medieval forgery. Many others believe it is real. The problem with the medieval forgery hypothesis is that, with every modern testing device known to man applied to the shroud, no one has been able to figure out how the image on the cloth was produced. No one. To me, this alone is enough to close the case.