The Shroud of Turin

The Shroud of Turin is a burial cloth made from linen, 4.37m long and 1.11m wide that bears the image of a crucified man. The image on the cloth is a double image of the front and back of a man with wounds to the face, left wrist, feet and right side of the chest.
Many believe the image to be that of Jesus of Nazareth. However debate about whether the Shroud is that of Jesus of Nazareth or merely a medieval forgery has raged over the years. It is the single most studied artifact in history and to this date no clear conclusion has been reached on its authenticity.

If the Shroud was dated to the exact time of Christ's cruxifiction, how do we know it is really his image. Many people were cruxified in the same way?

What impact would it have on religion if it was proven to be the image of Christ?

If it is a forgery who created the cloth and why?

 

i remember they did test it and it was found to be only 600 years old.

 

The test revealed that it was not that old and that is the reason they refused further testing. The test showed that it was most likely done in something similar to present day pizza oven and in that time it was sold for a high price, so most likely the motivation was a simple fraud.

 

Yeah it's a fake.

 

Scientists have reproduced the Shroud of Turin -- revered as the cloth that covered Jesus in the tomb -- and say the experiment proves the relic was man-made, a group of Italian debunkers claimed Monday
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The group said in a statement this is further evidence the shroud is a medieval forgery. In 1988, scientists used radiocarbon dating to determine it was made in the 13th or 14th century.

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So was it fake relic ?

 

Of course it was man made. Men placed it on a Man (Son of God) and the rest if history.

 

The Shroud of Turin is nothing but a scrap of material. It was never the shroud in which Jesus' body was wrapped because no such person ever existed.