[kirklancaster]

Originally Posted by Jules2

Morning all, Kirk did you get any answers to your OP, what would you like to think is the answer?

One thing seems for certain, it helped her and it has put her onto a different level of thought, hopefully this will help her to get over the turmoil of such a horrible event.

Have you had a look at the Deep Sea Scrolls at all, have to admit that it has explained at least three things for me, one of which I have had to change my original thought. I believe for myself it has been to easy to compare things to this days rules and regulations but I have to accept that it was not the same then. Consequently some of the so called miracles are explained, if the scrolls are fact. They have been scientifically processed for the age and material around at that time.

Morning Jules,

I reproduce my answer to LT Jules to save duplication:

It was not a rhetorical question - I genuinely do not know why. I have my own ideas - theory if you will - obviously biased and based upon my faith, but I don't know.

I wanted to discover other viewpoints for the very reason that I wasn't sure.

I would like to think that because she was an atheist and not a religious person (according to her own testimony in articles I have read, and in a documentary which someone on here mentioned) that Christ did actually appear to her.

I am not concerned that the vision she actually saw was an image -- a medieval artists impression -- of the 'Veronica Cloth', because no one can look upon the countenance of God, and if she did 'perceive' a vision of Christ, then her mind would project the image of Christ which she could identify.

Incidentally, the image of Christ - long hair and bearded - on that particular painting, is notable, because it is the sterotypical image that most artists depicted once the image on the Shroud of Turin had become known. Before then, depictions of Christ in art were diverse and generic.

As to the Dead Sea Scrolls, yes, I have always been interested in them, and have a couple of books which I've had for years and have also researched them - as you have Jules.

I have no reason to doubt the scrolls authenticity, or the Copper Scrolls.

Do your ideas on the connection between the Scrolls and Christ come from reading the works of Edmund Wilson Jules?