Ep 243 | NEW EVIDENCE: Shroud of Turin Shows Exact Moment of Resurrection?! | The Glenn Beck Podcast
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Jeremiah J. Johnston is a distinguished New Testament scholar, pastor, author, and president of the Christian Thinker Society. He has studied the Shroud of Turin for years, and is now one of the leading authorities on the death, burial, and resurrection of Jesus.
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Scientific advancement and now artificial intelligence are working to prove a lot of things.
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The validity of the Gospels and the historic evidence for the resurrection of Jesus.
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So was my next guest until he was faced with too many facts to ignore.
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He has studied what we are going to talk about today for years.
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He's going to talk about the death, the burial, and the resurrection of Christ.
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And how the top scientific minds studying the ancient Shroud of Turin may have changed the world forever.
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It is an amazing piece of evidence that now has new science to back it up.
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Welcome, distinguished New Testament scholar, pastor, author, and president of Christian Thinker Society, Jeremiah J. Johnston.
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I have to start with this, that I grew up Catholic, so I know what the Shroud of Turin is.
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But back in the day, people that are evangelicals would say, that's just a Catholic relic.
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And then dating happened in the late 80s, and they said, no, it's not from the right time period.
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The Shroud of Turin is thought to be the burial cloth of the historical Jesus of Nazareth,
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meaning that it's about 14 feet 3 inches long by 3 feet 7 inches wide.
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And it's thought that Joseph of Arimathea had purchased this for himself as his own pre-death
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And so even though Jesus is executed in an excruciating fashion as a criminal, he's buried
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And the Shroud of Turin gives physical evidence of that fact.
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When did we first see the Shroud of Turin appear?
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The Shroud of Turin first appears in John chapter 20.
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We see this word sindon used in Athonia in Greek.
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And we also see the Greek word sudarion, which is the face cloth.
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And then the early church historian who was right there at the Council of Nicaea, Eusebius,
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But the Chiefs have not always been called the Kansas City Chiefs.
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You know, right after you were born, they were called the Dallas Texans.
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Very similar with the image of Edessa, the mandolin, the face of Jesus.
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It's been known by different names throughout antiquity.
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It only came to be known as the Shroud of Turin in the 16th century when it finally goes to
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Historically, we have a historical record both in the documents and also in art and in numismatics,
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Let's just start with the evidence that before it becomes what it is now, before it goes to
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Turin, let's start with some of the evidence that it existed.
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Well, and I want to start originally with the best documents that we have, which are the
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canonical gospels of Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John.
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All four of those make reference to the fact that Joseph of Arimathea and Nicodemus prepared
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This is accurate based on Jewish burial traditions.
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An atheist archaeologist at University of North Carolina, Jody Magnus, says the gospels
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get it right when it comes to Jewish burial traditions based on archaeology.
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And so Joseph of Arimathea has a very expensive, we know from the Shroud, it has a herringbone
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Now, Glenn, the only reason I know what herringbone is is I had to buy that for a backsplash for
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my wife, and I just know it was the more expensive one.
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So this was an expensive weave, but we have hundreds of shrouds from the land of Israel.
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We have hundreds of shrouds from Jerusalem and the Qumran community.
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Very few of them, if any, have the herringbone weave.
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John 20 is a key passage because, and I, you know, it's amazing when you read the scripture,
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you read it so many times, but then it's like you read it for the very first time.
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In John chapter 20, John outruns Peter to the tomb of Jesus, which we'll discuss in a minute.
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It's not until he looks in and it says he saw in Greek three times.
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He saw with understanding, theoretical understanding.
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The Athonia, the Sinden, the burial shroud of Jesus and the face garment, the Sudarian, which
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So right there is where the, where the shroud mystery begins.
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And they would not have just shuffled these burial garments because it's not like it's
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The body is, we'll talk about emanates through the cloth in the resurrection moment, which
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And then Thomas Eusebius tells us that the disciple Thomas, who Eusebius is a respected church historian.
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I'm, I'm not doing Christian history right now.
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I'm not privileging this with some kind of Christian bias.
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I'm looking at this and evaluating the evidence that you asked about.
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It goes to Edessa, where a king is said to have actually been healed by it.
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And there it stays until the Muslim invasion of the sixth century, when it then goes to
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And so where you and I were raised thinking that, oh, this is like the three wise men,
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you know, you can go see the three wise men in Cologne, in the cathedral.
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It did not come into be, and to say it accurately, the Pope is custodial of the Turin Shroud.
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It was given to him personally, but not until the 1980s, 1985 to be exact.
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So I was, I was conditioned both from my background and from my education to think, oh, there's
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In this corner, by where you see his feet on the backside, there is a large section taken
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And so because the Shroud of Turin was held in private family hands, noble hands, the hands
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of a knight, it would be brought out at special occasions.
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Like if you were having Glenn and Tanya over for dinner, you brought the Shroud of Turin out.
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You wanted to impress your guests, or if your child was getting baptized, you would bring
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And we know, again, from the historical record that pieces of the Shroud were given away to
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dignitaries as gifts, or even as marriage dowries.
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You would give them a piece of Jesus' burial cloth.
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And you can see that right here in our museum replica.
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Okay, so before we get to the, well, first, talk to me about the coins, the face of Christ,
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And so when you look at the artwork, the skeptics will say that this is a medieval forgery based
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One man has offered over a million British pounds to anyone who can duplicate what's
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And we see this evidential, these evidential breadcrumbs where we know that in the coins,
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numismatics, we see the exact same image of the face of Jesus in coins that corresponds
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And then if you go to Sinai and you begin to see the icons and art, you see that all
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of the earliest art of Jesus that we have, he's bearded.
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I want to correct people who think that Jesus didn't have a beard.
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No, he would have taken the Nazarite vow and his beard probably would have grown 21 inches
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during his three and a half year ministry that we know from the synoptics and John's
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So I've given my life to study the historical Jesus.
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Jesus probably walked somewhere around 15 to 20,000 miles in his lifetime.
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If you add up all of his trips to Jerusalem, this is a strong man.
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And we see all of that reflected in the iconography and the earliest Christian art.
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What is the most famous icon painting of his face that's like split in half, right?
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Yes, this is fascinating because I actually have a dear friend, Doug Powell, who's taken
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that icon in the image of the shroud, and he's put it in mid-journey AI to produce what I
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think is the best, closest image of the face of Jesus.
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It's not the effeminate Jesus of medieval Christian art.
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The effeminate Jesus, the weak Jesus, the no beard Jesus, all of the earliest coins, the
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And my slides, when I teach students, I mean, you just, again, see this resemblance all emanating
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And the source material for the artist is that face right there that we see right here
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So this is such an amazing, let's just call it for now, let's just call it art.
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As an artist, myself, if I put myself back in time, you know, even 150 years, I don't
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So this requires somebody a thousand years ago, at worst, okay, a thousand years, perpetrating
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a fraud with the face of Christ in something that no one understood, a negative, right?
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I mean, for this to be a work of a forger, the best modern scientists, and Glenn, I want
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to be clear when I say this, 500,000 interdisciplinary hours have been spent studying this object
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I have one academic discipline as a historian, as a first century scholar.
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63 different academic disciplines cannot explain how there is an image in the Shroud of Turin.
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So let me go to, in 88, they said this was a forgery.
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And it came from that corner, the opposite corner.
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In that corner, in the top left, if you're looking at the Shroud, this is the very infamous
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corner, three different labs received a piece of the Shroud about the size of our pinky,
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And if you look at the original STIRP team's finding, that's the Shroud of Turin Research
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Many of these men have published, and women have published, peer-reviewed journals, not
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in popularizers, but peer-reviewed journals interacting with the carbon-14 dating.
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And what we can say, Glenn, unequivocally, is the carbon-14 dating is totally erroneous.
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But specifically, in the 16th century, in the mid-1500s, the Shroud survives a fire in
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And there, the nuns, not only sewed in these triangles, see all the triangles for the benefit
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It was folded in a box, and so those horizontal black lines, those are scorch marks, okay?
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The 16 triangles are patches, but we also, the evidence tells us that the nuns also patched
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the fraying edges of this 0.3-millimeter-thick linen, fine linen shroud.
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And they did a technique, and again, anyone can read this, okay?
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All you have to do, we learn from everyone, but don't ever let anyone think for you.
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You can see that there is cotton that is invisibly woven into the patchwork of the fibers of the
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They took literally a patch sample, and then the headline was, this is a medieval forgery.
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So I talked to Schwartz, who was one of the lead scientists on that, an atheist.
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Who, when he discovered what happened and where the patch was taken from, he reversed himself.
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And he became a great Christian, and as an atheist, he's like, I'm telling you that's
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And not only an atheist, as you know from interviewing him, but a Jewish atheist, by the way.
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It took him 17 years to believe in the authenticity of the shroud, and he is the documenting photographer.
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And so what we have in your studios today is the photograph that Barry Schwartz took during
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the five days, 120 hours, that the scientists had access to the shroud.
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The only time it's ever happened in history was that moment.
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It's printed, and we can actually go up and touch it.
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And what's phenomenal about it is when you hold up, and I love doing this with audiences
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and with students, when you invert your iPhone, or for those that have Androids, or however
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you do that, when you invert your phone and you look at the picture of the crucified man,
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This is actually the sepia tone, faint image that looks like a dirty sheet is actually the
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When we see the negative, we see the man in the positive.
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And what we're seeing is the moment of resurrection.
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If you were faking this back then, you would not have made it this faint.
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Because honestly, I could look at that sheet and look at it for a long time and then wonder,
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Is that, you know, this is so unbelievably subtle.
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So, Mack technology has taken us back into the Shroud, and they have found seeds and everything
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that originates from Jerusalem at that time, right?
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So, Max Fry, a criminologist, spent five years of his life studying all of the pollen spores
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And you would think, okay, if this is a forgery, you're going to find pollen, you're going to
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find all kinds of things from plant life in Europe.
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The majority of the pollen found blooms in Jerusalem, and it doesn't bloom year-round.
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We know we can date, based on the historical record, Jesus' death by crucifixion, which is
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the best established fact of the ancient world.
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He dies by Roman crucifixion April 3rd, AD 33, springtime.
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And so, there's two-thirds of all the pollen spores are from, specifically, Jerusalem.
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And again, this is a criminologist, not a theologian, Max Fry, saying, I've given five
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And this is where I want to just share with you, Glenn, the Shroud of Turin is the most
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I'm sitting in Keeble College, Oxford, Faculty of Theology, where I would go to attend Faculty
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I have written a 93,000-word uberlieferungsgeschichte of resurrection, the tradition of resurrection
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It's been written for dozens in the academic world.
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And asked me how many times in Faculty of Theology or working in the Griffith Papyrology
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Lab, where I studied codicology and ancient texts, asked me how many times anyone ever
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brought up the Shroud of Turin to me, studying the resurrection at the primary terminal level.
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The British Museum, which is tied into one of the three, I mentioned the three Oxford labs
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that did the carbon-14 dating, you can look at the peer-reviewed journal.
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For over 20 years, they suppressed the raw data.
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And it took a French attorney who believed in the validity of the Shroud as an authentic
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artifact to get them to finally release just the raw data.
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So I can share what I'm sharing with you today that, okay, the raw data shows it was a, it
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The motivation is John chapter 11, Jesus raises Lazarus from the dead.
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And people that don't want to believe in truth, no evidence is enough.
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They refuse to believe that Jesus is who he says he is, even with Lazarus, who would begin
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to have an odor from after rigor mortis, is raised before them.
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When I was defending my thesis after three years of my life, the man who I'm defending
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He says, do you actually believe the resurrection of Jesus happened, Jeremiah?
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Brian has a big, wonderful man, big British, British bow tie.
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But he said, or is that just imaginative storytelling?
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And I said, David Hume chooses, probably said, wise men choose probabilities.
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I believe Jesus physically rose from the grave.
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I, I, I spoke to Dominic Crossan one time, you know, of course, and, uh, and, uh, he's
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a great guy and, and, and, and, yeah, but he absolutely didn't happen.
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And so what, what's the motivation for those that turn their hearts from truth?
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So we have the evidence that the carbon dating now we have done again and it's right.
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We have actually other ways in which we have better, this is breaking news.
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We have something called waxes dating, wide angle x-ray scattering.
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You know how I mentioned, um, that we have other burial shrouds of Jesus from the land
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So there's a lab in Italy that has a burial shroud that we know is from Masada and you've
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You know all about Masada, the last stand against Titus.
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Um, so we have this, we know the date is sound 80, 70 or so, right?
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And so they have that shroud sampling and then they took a sample, a correct sample of the
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shroud, and they compare that using wide angle x-ray scattering.
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And they see that there has been 2000 years of degradation in the shroud fibrils of this
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fine lemon garment, meaning it has been getting old for 2000 years, not 700.
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And in some skeptics will say, well, Jeremiah and Glenn, um, you know, this is a shroud.
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Are you telling me it's surprised it will last 2000 years?
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You can again, look at the Tarkin dress, which is a beautiful blouse.
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And it's 3000 years older than the shroud of turn Glenn.
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So it's a very stable material given the right circumstances.
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And again, when Jesus rises from the dead, everything changes in the mind of the first
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And this is so important with you as an artist.
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So Alan Adler and other hematologists who are, again, these are experts in the blood.
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Glenn, I've taken blood samples and if we had an ultraviolet light right now, there'd be
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a lot of fun, Glenn, because I could show you that the shroud, the number one substance
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There are pints and pints and pints of blood all over the shroud.
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We'll get to the crown of thorns on the forehead.
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372 lacerations from a Roman whip called a phlegm, the flagellation of Jesus.
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And again, if you're a forger, you're just going to use animal blood, right?
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Less than 3% of the world's population has type A-B blood and it is found primarily in
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Some people are like, well, could we take the blood and, you know, clone Jesus?
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But it just shows, again, the scriptures say, fully God, fully man.
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Now, the interesting thing is when we were walking through it, the lance wound in the
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We'll talk about this in the way that Jesus died in excruciating fashion.
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When they look at that blood, that blood they tested, and that is post-mortem blood.
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That blood is tested differently than the blood on the rest of the shroud.
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Pilate is shocked, based on the historical record, that Jesus had died so quickly.
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Jesus dies in six hours, which shows you the particular brutality that he went through
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in the scourging and also beating in the house of Caiaphas, et cetera.
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And yet we know, based on the blood samples, that this is post-mortem blood.
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So again, if you're going to fake the shroud, you've got to kill a guy.
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His blood needs to be post-mortem blood, and then you need to slap that on the spear wound.
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So how do you explain, or can we explain, I've always thought of the shroud, because it's
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a negative, as he is resurrected, it's just like a flash of light.
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Again, another scientist, another school has given five years to study this.
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Just the amount of electromagnetic energy or even radiation it would take to produce an
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But the fascinating thing is the timing, because when they sample it, it takes a lot of time
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to get the image on the shroud, but then the shroud would burn up almost instantaneously.
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So we know the image of the shroud based on five years of study on light.
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We know that it happened in one fortieth of a billionth of a second.
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And it took 34,000 trillion watts of energy emanating from the body in a flash of one fortieth
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of a billionth of a second to produce that image.
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That is the moment of Jesus' physical, bodily resurrection, Sunday morning, April 5th, AD 33.
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And then it's the fall-through theory that the sheet, essentially the body flashes alive
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So they have checked for all other kinds of paint and everything else.
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When you look at the findings of the STERP team, after three years, they did their research
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They took three years to publish their findings.
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We'll talk about the 3D encoding in the image as well from the VPA analyzer.
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But when the STERP team came out and they published their findings, they said, we cannot explain it.
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No pigment, no dye, no paint, no oxidization from old paint, nothing.
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These are people from Sandia Labs, the Air Force Academy, physics professors.
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They went in and were having drinks in the lobby joking about, I remember it was John Jackson
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who said, give me 15 minutes with the shroud and the scientific method and I'll prove it's
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He's become the great defender of the shroud in all of his publications.
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And so, no pigment, no dye, no paint, the best scientists from the jet propulsion labs cannot
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And it took me a while in my research to really, truly appreciate this.
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The blood, when we were walking through the shroud, we can see the blood everywhere.
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And there's around 70 to 150 fibers in a single linen thread, okay?
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The image is only on two to three of those fibers superficially.
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And it's inside two to three of these fibers that make up the single thread of the weave.
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And again, in Jewish burial traditions, when someone died, you buried them that day before
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Remember, they're wanting to bury him before Passover.
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And yet, there's no decomposition on the body either.
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And you ask, and here we have this beautiful replica of the crucified man of the shroud.
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And you say, Jeremiah, why does it look like his knees are bent and his head is like on
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Based on my scholarship, Jesus is in the tomb no more than 39 hours.
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And then the body starts to relax after 40 hours?
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So, we know that his legs were up because you don't see the back of his knees.
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You only see the right side more clearly than the left.
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And again, not a single bone on his body is broken.
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And again, that goes against Roman crucifixion most of the time.
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And we also notice when you look at this that his body is in this shape.
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I don't know if you picked up on that with your artist acumen that his arms seem almost
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He's asked to carry the patibulum, just the cross beam.
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And he might have been chained to other criminals in this processional that goes outside of the
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He falls, he collapses, and it leads to more abrasions on his shoulders.
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And so, on the back, do you see all the abrasions?
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Those are from when not just he falls and he drops the cross beam.
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That's when we believe that his shoulders were dislocated.
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His shoulders are dislocated, and that's why his arms are elongated and rigor mortis.
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Let's talk about what we can learn about crucifixion from this.
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And it's kind of odd to say that I'm an expert in Roman crucifixion, but that's one of my
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And Jesus dies in a particularly demonic, shameful, heinous way.
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And we've brought some crucifixion elements here.
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So, you have the scourge, the spear, the nails, the crown of thorns, which is just horrifying.
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These are actual Bethlehem thorns, and they're like nails.
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So, often, we'll start with the crown of thorns.
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When we look at art, we believe that Jesus is wearing some kind of sweatband or wreath.
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We know that as he's led to the cross, he's completely naked.
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But he's not totally naked because they fashion a crown of thorns, really though a helmet of
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thorns, a dome, a cap of thorns, and that is pressed into his head.
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And we know that there are 30 to 50 puncture wounds in the head of the crucified man.
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We have thousands of crucifixion victims explained, both in the Roman annals, Tacitus, others, Suetonius.
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We have no mention of a crown of thorns, except in one particular case, the man who said,
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And they fashion a crown of thorns, a helmet of thorns.
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And one of the applications for me is we live in a time of such despair, such agony, so much
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When I think about the crown of thorns, when I stare at this glen and I think about it,
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I think about that passage that Saul of Tarsus wrote in Romans 5, 8.
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But God demonstrated his love for us, and that while we were his enemies, we were his
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And that reminds me of the lengths that Jesus would go.
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What we see in the crown of thorns is love in its most radical form.
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And it gives us pause, and we say, well, that should have been my head in that crown.
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I don't think people understand the crown of thorns until you see the thorns that came
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I mean, it is horrifying, absolutely horrifying.
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We know that there were at least, there were probably two whipping Jesus.
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Now you can see that has three cords on it and two lead balls.
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So with each lash, you're getting six lashes in when you count up their balls.
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We know that he's lashed 372 times, but keep in mind, we don't have the lateral sides on
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There's got to be more on the sides than there were.
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700 wounds that Jesus, the man of the shroud, endured for us from that phlegm, the scourging.
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Often crucifixion victims wouldn't even make it to the cross.
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But again, it seemed that Jesus was brutalized under the reign of Pontius Pilate, who would
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ultimately get on the outs of Tiberius and die by suicide, interestingly enough.
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We know a lot about nails from the archaeology.
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And most people have the nails going through his palm, but it would have ripped...
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All that weight would have ripped right through.
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Again, this wasn't the first rodeo, as we say in Texas, of these executioners.
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They know that Jesus, they knew exactly where to puncture at the exact angle through the
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wrists into the hands, and it would foist his body weight of around 170 to 180 pounds.
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And they crushed his wrist when they did that, and they nailed him to the cross.
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Keep in mind, his shoulders are already separated.
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It's the same Greek word for you scripture scholars out there, hands and wrists in the
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Now, what's fascinating is crucifixion nails become something like a rabbit's foot then
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We actually have a Roman crucifixion victim under the reign of Pontius Pilate, who is crucified,
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So he's a crucified victim, the worst way to die ever in the ancient world.
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It's the heel bone of Yehohanan, because his heel bone still has the crucifixion nail in
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And this is again in the 20s AD under the reign of Pontius Pilate.
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A year after a Jewish man died, his bones would be collected.
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And then osalagium, a process of second burial, would take place.
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So that's like when you go to the land of Israel, where I know you've been, and thank you for
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Those ossuaries are where you would put the bones that were collected one year after the
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And so we have this great artifact where we see crucifixion nails in a crucified victim,
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because the skeptical scholars will claim that crucified victims were not given proper
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But isn't that true to the fact, I mean, crucifixion was not only supposed to be horrifying for the
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And we always see the crosses as these big, tall things.
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So when you're walking into the city, you're like, I don't want to do that.
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And they were left there for a while for the dogs to eat.
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And again, remember, yeah, this is not a monolith.
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And what do we, again, everything I say is based on the evidence.
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The only time that we have, we know that Philo, a Jewish historian in Alexandria, Josephus,
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So there's six amazing sources right there that Jews were allowed to bury their dead properly,
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The only time that we know of where Jews were not allowed to bury their dead was during the
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My dear friend and colleague at Christian Thinkers, Craig Evans, has done phenomenal, groundbreaking
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Um, so they, um, they have nails in his wrists through his hands.
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And the only way he can breathe is if he's pushing himself up, right?
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Because everything's collapsing on him and he has no strength in his arms to pull him,
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So the pain of pushing himself up must've been.
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And can you imagine how could you, I wouldn't be able to speak.
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I wouldn't be able to, you fight for every breath.
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I, as a pastor, I've been with people when they are fighting for every breath at the
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And I think about Jesus and Jesus is able to utter certain words, even from the cross.
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And Mark 8, 31, Mark 9, 31, Mark 10, 33 and 34.
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He constantly reminds his audience, even though they're confused, the son of man must die and
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Luke's gospel, the great historian, Luke, the doctor who gives us his wonderful Luke
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He tells us that Jesus set his face like Flint to the cross.
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Asked if he could, if he could ask the father, if it could be held back in any way, which again
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shows us that he can empathize with us, even in our weaknesses.
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That is to scale a Roman Lance three and a half centimeters wide.
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And remember they're coming around, uh, you know, the Jewish sensitivities, Sabbath and
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So they break the, they break the bones of the criminals onto the right and the left of
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Jesus of Nazareth, but they come and Jesus is already dead.
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And again, these guys knew what they were doing.
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They use this Lance and they penetrate right between the fifth and sixth rib, three and a
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And the scriptures tell us that blood and water come out.
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And again, how would first they know this if they were making up forged documents?
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But secondly, what do we see as we have already suggested on the shroud?
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We see that three and a half centimeter wound in the side of the man of the shroud.
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It's just above the patch in the, in the, in the left there.
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And I would like to mention, if I may, Glenn, I want you to hold a temple tax coin.
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This, at this moment, I think it's important to, for you to handle this.
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That is the currency that you had to pay for the temple tax at the Jewish temple.
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And so there's a miracle in the gospels where Jesus says to Peter, open that fish's mouth
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But even more so, Judas Iscariot has paid 30 of those to betray Jesus, the price of a slave.
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We know from the writing on it, it's from the twenties when Pilate is in power.
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You can imagine what that must've felt like to Judas seeing this play out.
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I went over to Jerusalem and I, I bought one just like this because I wanted something that
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I kind of feel bad for Judas, you know, because it had to happen.
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And, uh, you know, if you just look at him as a bad guy, but he knew as soon as he did
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And except for God's grace, there go every one of us.
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It would have been an interesting meeting of Christ on that day.
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And Jesus then is asked, according to the Mishnah, which is a, is a second century AD
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Jewish source of how to live out the Jewish law, Talmud, it's late second temple Judaism.
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If the Sanhedrin condemned a Roman criminal or excuse me, a criminal to death, even under
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Roman law, um, it was on the Sanhedrin to bury the crucified criminal.
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What do we see in the juridical procedure in the gospels?
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We see that Nicodemus and Joseph of Arimathea, two members of the Sanhedrin take control of
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And so they don't have much time and they take Jesus to a new tomb and a quarry, a rock
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So this is not a tomb that has been used, um, before by a family.
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So, uh, Glenn, I've had the opportunity to film at all the resurrection sites of Jesus
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I've been in more tombs than probably anyone you've ever interviewed.
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You walk into the tomb and there is, you usually walk down the steps.
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It's usually just a meter square because not a lot of rich people got buried in the land
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And so when you see this large circular stone, circular stone, that's, that's a, that's a
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They've got a big stone because 80% of the tombs that we've discovered in the land of Israel
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But when you would get in inside your palm of your hand, that's where you would pray.
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And then the finger slots are niches for the bodies to be buried.
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So the Jewish family burial would have, there's only one niche in this, right?
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I have stood and I am convinced based on the archeology, based on all of the evidence.
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And I write about this in my book, Body of Proof at Length, that the edicule inside of
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the Church of the Holy Sepulcher is in fact the place where Jesus was buried.
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My sticking point on this is the mother of Constantine who is like, yes, that is the place.
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She picked out the church too at Bethlehem, the Church of the Activity.
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I've been to the garden tomb and to the place that she says.
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Coins were like the social media of the first and second century.
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They would tell you who was in power, what the name of the city is and what, what culture,
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what cultural sensitivities you needed to be aware of.
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After three Jewish revolts in the first and early second century, Hadrian has had enough
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of the Jews and he demolishes Israel and in particular Jerusalem after the third revolt,
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132 to 135 AD, the Bar Kokhba, the son of the star revolt.
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And Hadrian sees Christianity is just a Jewish sect.
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It is the reason I never use the word Palestine when referring to the holy land, the Jewish
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Hadrian originates the term Palestine and he does so very pejoratively.
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I, I fly with American airlines, but I was on one of their one world partners.
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It doesn't say any Israel anywhere on the flight map.
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It says Palestinian territories as a echo back to Hadrian.
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And that bronze coin that you hold in your hand from the second century said it's stamped
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This is the new name for the city of Jerusalem.
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When Hadrian demolishes and raises Jerusalem in the second century, he hears about this
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venerated site of this dying and rising God and he absolutely demolishes it.
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And then whereas Jesus is crucified, another venerated object to Jupiter and Hadrian unwittingly
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becomes the protector of this sacred Christian site of Jesus's death by Roman crucifixion
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Because people didn't move around a lot, Glenn.
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If you would have lived in the first and second century, you would have said, oh, you would
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have taken your kids there and said, hey, this is where he died.
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It's like our liberals today who demolish our history.
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You know, we can call it whatever we want now, but this is where Jesus died.
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And then when you see in 2017, the tomb is open for a remodeling, really a refurbishment
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is what we should call it because it's falling apart.
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And I know that everything seems wrong about the Church of the Holy Sepulchre.
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But even the director of the Garden Tomb knows that that's not the historical site.
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It looks like a skull right there above the bus stop.
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The tomb, specifically, I should mention, the tomb is about 700 years earlier than the
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We know that to be true, based, again, on the archaeology.
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I always, I think science and God go hand in hand.
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God's got to be the greatest scientist and mathematician of all time.
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And I don't believe that he works outside of that.
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If he's resurrecting and there is energy that's coming in like that, you would think that there
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So this isn't a miracle as much as it is just a marker of God doing something scientifically.
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So this isn't, this is not something that God did so we'd have faith.
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This is just one piece of evidence that, yeah, it happened.
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But it's not, it's, do you see this as a faith thing or just, just evidence that it happened?
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And so I see it as a, yet another evidential layer of the greatest event of human history,
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Jesus' death and resurrection on our behalf on the cross.
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So I see it as just another layer of very important evidence.
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It's a historic, it's the only historical evidence we have of the resurrection outside
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I've been to several places that have the cross.
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So truly it's the only, and it doesn't, this is as close as your audience, and I'm so
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This is as close as any of us will ever get to the shroud today.
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I have, I've wanted to go to Turin my whole life.
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Even this year in the Jubilee, we're not sure if it's even going to be on display.
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Some youth locally, and it's all up to the Archbishop of Turin.
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So we need to, I mean, they have the technology to keep it safe.
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Was this, was this ever more vibrant than it is now?
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We don't know that it was ever more vibrant, but we do know that it is degrading based on
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The image has always been faint that, you know, and again, Secando Pia didn't even see
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1898 is the point at which Secando Pia, a lawyer, takes a photograph of the shroud and in the
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It was on display and he had to build a scaffolding to take.
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And it was one of the first photographs ever taken with a flash, with electricity.
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The exposure takes hours, literally, you know, for our, for the benefit of anyone under the
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age of 30, you know, our phones do not always take pictures.
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I mean, he still had a phone, don't get me wrong, but it didn't have a camera with it.
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So for 125 years now, we've enjoyed modern scientific study of the shroud and all of it
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Glenn, if I'm putting up on your table right now, all the evidence for and all the evidence
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against the shroud of Turin scientifically, there's one shred of evidence against it.
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The erroneous 1988 carbon dating and then a absolute deluge of evidence by scientists, not
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theologians, not pastors, hoping that it's hoping that it is.
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Most pastors and theologians, they discredit this.
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And I say to evangelicals who are watching, don't be conditioned as I was to think, oh,
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Read it, study it, read from people like me and Glenn and others who actually look at the
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science, we look at the reports, we learn from everyone, but we don't let anyone think
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And, you know, too bad I was conditioned in England to not believe in it either.
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It's a mistake to think that just because Catholics, I mean, I grew up Catholic.
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But you're conditioned to think, oh, it's Catholic.
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So the one thing, I was actually given permission to go into the secret archives.
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So I went in with the chief theologian and the head of the archives.
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The theologian who is the one who consults with the Pope and says, okay, theologically,
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But the things that I saw, the things that they have, you know, the Vatican Museum is
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I'm walking in a hallway and the head of the Vatican archives says, oh, we passed something,
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And he's like, oh, wait, turns around, goes back and says, you'll love this, opens the doors.
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And it is the parchment with all of the wax seals saying that King Henry VIII should be,
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you know, they should be pardoned in, you know, his marriage annulled.
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And that was just in a hallway that they were like, ah.
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Just because they have, just because they have it doesn't make it Catholic.
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And, but you've just explained one of the big pitfalls that many, many Christians who
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hear about the Shroud of Turin, they don't seem to care.
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And when I have yet to be with someone and give all the evidence to where it doesn't
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immediately invite them into the mystery of the Shroud, because when you get beyond the
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mystery, you hear the message of the Shroud, which is God and his love for us in the most
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You, I mean, you gave me this statue of the crucified man.
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And you now, AI, you've done it and take that face and make it real.
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Um, I, I'm, I'm, you know, we're in this place now where things are going to get really
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Um, and now you can do that, but then you could put all of the words of Christ into a
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chat, uh, and you can make that man speak to you, uh, which would be freaky.
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Have where we get verified information from becomes crucial.
00:57:23.140
I wrote an op-ed a few years ago when AI was just coming on the scene and it was the title
00:57:28.480
of it was my daughter prayed to Alexis because it was just a, it was just a slip.
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You know, we have Alexis in our house and instead of saying, dear Jesus, she said, dear Alexis.
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But I remember Googling white American couple at the time in this Fox news op-ed and what
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the, what the learning machine sent back to me was everything but a white American couple.
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And so ever since then I've been saying to my students, to those where I speak, where I publish,
00:57:56.320
we have to be so careful where we get verified information.
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And the great thing why I'm not too concerned about it is we have an embarrassment of riches
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of the earliest words of Christ as codified in the New Testament scriptures.
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But again, when we come back to these sources, this is where it's on us to be educated.
00:58:21.820
This is why where I get information is paramount for me and my wife and our five children.
00:58:30.180
I want to be able to understand what I believe and why I believe it based on evidence.
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Because the same follow the science crowd has tried to suppress this science.
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Christians were like, okay, well, I don't know exactly how he creates, but the big bang.
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And the scientists originally were against that because they said, yeah, but what lit the match?
00:58:58.380
And they were, they, they thought the universe had always been in existence.
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So shroud of turn research has never been taken more seriously by scholars.
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And my prayer is that thanks to voices like yours joining in, we can make this where the
00:59:21.960
Because when I look deeply at the evidence of the shroud, I see God's plan for me.
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And what I want to talk about, Glenn, is let's say it's real.
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What are the implications that we have the exact moment of Jesus's resurrection caught in the
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It makes the hair on the back of my neck stand up because the gospels don't tell us what happened
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Only John and the women who are mentioned in Luke eight stay behind to actually be with
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Um, they know something weird is happening at the tomb because normally soldiers were not
01:00:06.520
We know that there are second and third century writings that talk about what happened at the
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But when we see if this is indeed, and I believe it is the shroud of Jesus unequivocally
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based on the evidence, this tells me that this is God's answer to suffering.
01:00:23.180
This tells me I have hope that Greek word in the new Testament scriptures, LPS used a hundred
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Peter says, I have a living hope based not because I feel like being hopeful today because
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man, I didn't really feel like doing anything today.
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I have a living hope because Jesus historically raised from the dead.
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So when I see it, I see hope and I see God's answer to injustice and the suffering in our
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I mean, I think we're seeing evil like we haven't seen in a very long time.
01:00:57.200
And I honestly, I think we are going to see godlessness and the birth of a new God through
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And you can easily see how the book of Revelation, its prophecies are possibly just over the horizon.
01:01:24.340
Things that I remember reading when I was young going, that'll never happen.
01:01:32.400
But as darkness grows, shadows can only grow darker if the light is stronger.
01:01:48.200
I think that there are things happening all over the world.
01:01:51.400
I mean, the stuff that's happening in Jerusalem now where they've just found the temple.
01:01:57.300
And the things that I believe they're on the road of discovering are astonishing.
01:02:12.780
And will, for a lot of people who need that kind of stuff, it's going to be a choice.
01:02:26.080
And there will be those who will always reject it.
01:02:32.800
That there is a, there is a new, and I think different and deeper kind of spiritual awakening
01:02:43.580
I wrote a book called Unimaginable because without Christianity, without God, we destroy
01:02:50.360
And I think that we have so cannibalized ourselves through the godlessness that we see in
01:02:56.040
the world, people are starting to seek God again.
01:02:58.680
And the scriptures promise in Romans chapter one, that when you seek after God, he will
01:03:03.820
I have to share one thing with you about light.
01:03:07.920
In the photographic negative of Jesus, at the moment of resurrection, guess what color
01:03:18.020
When that is now, and it's negative, but in the positive, his hair is white.
01:03:23.240
What does the book of Revelation say about Jesus when he returns?
01:03:31.000
So we're seeing Jesus at the moment of resurrection.
01:03:35.260
Remember when he transfigures himself in Mark nine, the disciples don't want to leave.
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In fact, his body was likely still glistening after the fact.
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There was something beautiful about seeing Jesus.
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Remember the revelation explains that someday there'll be no need of the sun because light
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And so I think that's consistent with the 34,000 trillion watts that it took in one 40th
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of a billionth of a second, electromagnetic light to create this energy that created this
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That's a new finding that his white, his hair is white, like wool, just like in Revelation.
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Based on the, when you put the negative, when you look at the negative, you're seeing the
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So when you look at the light shades, that's what you, you made me think of it when you
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And I want to give credit to one of our students for that.
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Well, when you take this on the road, I would love to help you.
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I know this is a copy of it, but it is an exact copy.
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And I mean, I was hoping that maybe my wife and children would go with me to Turin this
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year, but I feel like this is, I mean, I'll never get this close.
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