The Real Face Of Jesus?

johnnyvega86

I was watching a documentary on Youtube that was aired last year on the history channel called 'The True Face Of Jesus?'

Computer animator Ray Downing created a painstaking recreation of the face of the crucified man on the Turin Shroud - which is purported to be the actual burial shroud of Jesus Christ.

The actual image on the shroud can only be seen from ten-feet away because up close the image is impossible to see properly as it consists of a series of darkened dots rather like computer pixels on the twill of the linen cloth to a debt of less than a micro-hair on it's surface. It is not painted or burned on to the fabric and is stained with real human blood found to from the AB blood group common to the Middle East (if enough DNA was made available it would be possible to clone the man on the shroud).





Scientists are still unable to determine how the image was created after decades of scientist examination.

In 1988 radio carbon dating concluded that the shroud was from the 14th century but subsequently an illuminated manuscript has been found which shows a detailed drawing of what can only be the shroud from centuries before.

A recently discovered account written by a Knight Templar tells of an initiation ritual in which he kissed a cloth with the figure of a man.
It is possible that this was the Turin shroud which was taken from Edessa in what is now Southern Turkey.

Some speculate that the shroud may be that of a Christian martyr who was crucified by the Muslim Saracens during the Crusader wars.

Many Christians remained convinced the shroud is the actual shroud that covered Jesus' body.

Roy Downing found that the shroud was folded in half with the body lying on the top half and the lower half draped over it. A strip of cloth that appears to be attached to the left edge of the cloth is believed to have orginally been cut from the cloth and used to bind the shroud over the body as it lay in the tomb.

The negative image popularized since 1898 when the shroud was first photographed is actually highly distorted as it lay over the face.



Using the latest computer wizardry Downing was able to produce an extremely accurate photo-realistic recreation of what the body looked like.

super_furry

Wasn't the Turin shroud an elaborate hoax from the middle ages?

Fanny Cradock

See somewhere around the 3rd page of this thread for more of the same discussion. I don't think there is a need for two threads running concurrently on the same topic, so I'm going to lock this one.