Is this the face of Jesus? (Watch closely as the image changes) |
The first image you see is a photo negative of the face on the Shroud of Turin.
The final picture was created using the face as a template.
As you watch the picture cycle over and over, consider these points:
1) On the Shroud cloth image, notice how swollen his right check is next to his mouth and below his eye.
2) The vertical lines from the weave and folds in the cloth make his face look artificially square and narrow.
3) The image on the cloth shows how his hair and beard were filled with blood, mated down and completely disheveled.
4) The face you see on the shroud is of a cadaver, now dead for at least 36 hours with no embalming.
All these mask the way he looked before he was crucified. But, the position of the important facial points (eyes and eyebrows, nose, lips, cheekbones, beard length, and hairline) are immovable benchmarks that allow for a close interpretation of what he truely looked like.
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My thoughts about the Shroud of Turin
The whole historical, global discussion about the Shroud of Turin is ultimately a discussion about the man – Jesus Christ of Nazareth. If we go with who he said he was – God in the flesh, we can assume he "knows all things" and thus he knew what would happen if he created us and placed us on this earth. It would follow, then, that he created the universe for the very purpose of facilitating his own death and subsequent resurrection – for us... (I believe for reasons that are incomprehensibly and infinitely beautiful).
If he did create the universe for such a purpose, then the apex, the focal point, the main and most important event of all time and space was his resurrection from the dead.
How did the image get onto the Shroud cloth? Scientists don't know. The thickness of the image itself is as thin as the skin of a soap bubble. Whatever the method, the image on the cloth is a picture of what he looked like just before he was brought back to life.
My conclusion: The image on the Shroud of Turin is a snapshot of that very point in time which was the reason why all this – this universe, us, life, creation... exists. That infinitely important moment was captured visually and left as a gift to us from God himself. Why would he leave such a gift? Clearly, it's because he loves us.
Michael D.
Special thanks to Barrie Schwortz, Official Documenting Photographer for the Shroud of Turin, for his kind permission to use his beautiful original photograph of the shroud.
Original Shroud Photograph © 1978 Barrie M. Schwortz
Final Shroud Picture Copyright © 2008 M. Bruce Douglass