Proof The Bible Is True

02/04/26

“Below is an excerpt from an article on how only a supernatural burst of energy could have produced the image on the Shroud.” Admin

Science and tech ‘admit they cannot duplicate the image’

Unsurprisingly, over the past few decades, many skeptical researchers have attempted to discredit the legitimacy of the Shroud. This includes the scandalously flawed carbon-14 dating in 1988, when three different labs knowingly tested a small, discolored corner of the linen Shroud that had been repaired with cotton during the Middle Ages after a 1532 fire damaged the sacred relic. Thus, the small part subjected to carbon dating was obviously not original. No surprise, then, that the labs determined the Shroud must be a forgery created in the Middle Ages! Some clever, overzealous monk or artisan must have done it, many conjectured.

Yet multiple research teams pursuing different aspects of the Shroud have recently overturned all of that – including Italian scientists who, using a new dating method called Wide-Angle X-ray Scattering, or WAXS, announced that the linen fibers of the Shroud are indeed consistent with a first-century origin.

Overshadowing all of this is the stunning reality that today’s science and technology, despite the modern era’s exponential growth in everything from artificial intelligence and computing to biotechnology and robotics, admit they do not understand how the image of the horribly brutalized and crucified man appeared on the ancient burial cloth and cannot replicate it. Yes, really.

Many millions are now persuaded that the Shroud of Turin really is the 2,000-year-old burial cloth of Jesus Christ, whose image at the moment of resurrection was supernaturally preserved on the cloth in a way modern science and technology cannot understand.

One of today’s leading authorities on the Shroud, Dr. Jeremiah Johnston, explains how state-of-the-art research labs flounder when attempting to duplicate the mysterious human image – which resides only on the outermost layer of the Shroud’s fibers and resembles a photographic negative (many centuries before photography was invented) on the piece of ancient linen, 14 feet 3 inches long by 3 feet 7 inches wide.

“The labs could heat up and essentially tattoo the shroud,” he observes, “but it would burn up instantly – it would scorch. This didn’t scorch.” Rather, says Johnston, the best and most scientifically plausible – however mind-boggling – explanation is that the mysterious image of Jesus Christ was created by a supernatural charge of “34,000 trillion watts of energy in 1/40 of a billionth of a second.” In other words, an instantaneous burst of divine energy, which, Johnston affirms, “we believe is that moment that Jesus’s body is resurrected.”

“It can’t be duplicated and it hasn’t been,” stressed Johnston. “One man in Britain offered a million pounds” – that’s about $1.3 million – “to anyone who could replicate the Shroud, and no one’s taken him up on the offer.”

Thus, in 2026, if one follows the evidence, the most rational conclusion is that what is seen on the Shroud of Turin is indeed a “negative photographic image” of the crucified Jesus being supernaturally brought back to life by God. Literally the result of unfathomable life energy coming back into Jesus’s dead body in an instant, leaving his image on the burial cloth. It is thus widely regarded as one more powerful, faith-affirming piece of evidence from God that He really did miraculously raise His Son, the Messiah of mankind, from the dead.