The face cloth isn't believed to have been used during the burial but during the removal from the cross - so no, it isn't. Incidentally, it is possibly still in existence - it is theorized to be the Sudarium of Oviedo. The analysis of the patterns of the blood stains is pretty compelling.
The body wasn't fully anointed - or the women wouldn't have been going to anoint it Sunday morning.
The body wasn't bound like a mummy - Scripture doesn't indicate it and history doesn't support it (bodies couldn't be wrapped that fast). It would have had bindings to keep the body from shifting (some of which are visible in the Shroud) but not necessarily being bound around the cloth. Some spices were placed with the body but clearly the burial was rushed and the job not finished. Matt's account is consistent with the Shroud - and with John's.
Does that prove the Shroud belonged to the Lord? No, of course not. But Scripture does not eliminate the possibility.
There are papers from more knowledgeable scholars than I that attest to the comparability. I'll be happy to track some down for you if you are genuinely interested. But there is no easy refutation of the Shroud - no gotcha - that's gonna create an irrefutable proof. No one would still be studying it if there were.
The body wasn't fully anointed - or the women wouldn't have been going to anoint it Sunday morning.
Originally posted by Matt 27:59, NIV
Does that prove the Shroud belonged to the Lord? No, of course not. But Scripture does not eliminate the possibility.
There are papers from more knowledgeable scholars than I that attest to the comparability. I'll be happy to track some down for you if you are genuinely interested. But there is no easy refutation of the Shroud - no gotcha - that's gonna create an irrefutable proof. No one would still be studying it if there were.
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