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New Testament scholar Jeremiah J. Johnston believes the most compelling archaeological evidence for Jesus is the famed Shroud of Turin, a burial cloth believed by some to show an image created during Christ\u2019s resurrection.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019ve published 300,000 words on the resurrection of Jesus,\u201d Johnston recently told CBN News. \u201cThat\u2019s my personal expertise. I\u2019m a historical Jesus scholar, did my PhD on the resurrection.\u201d<\/p>\n
But until recently, he hadn\u2019t written about the shroud \u2014 something he was once quite skeptical of, but has since fully embraced.<\/p>\n
\u201cI have traveled the world meeting with the physicists, the scientists, the mathematicians, the medical doctors who have staked their academic reputation that the Shroud is not only authentic, but that there\u2019s a one in 200 billion chance it\u2019s not the Jesus of the Bible,\u201d Johnston continued, \u201cAnd I essentially collate all the data that I\u2019ve learned over the last three years on the Shroud \u2026 and say, \u2018Here is the best arguments for the shroud,\u2019 because the shroud is a divine, literally itemized receipt of how much Jesus loves us.\u201d<\/p>\n
The scholar believes that, outside the Bible, it\u2019s the only artifact that documents the death, burial, and resurrection of Jesus, thereby distinguishing it from other findings.<\/p>\n
\u201cNothing else does that,\u201d Johnston said. \u201cAnd so I find the shroud to be the most compelling.\u201d<\/p>\n
Listen to the latest\u00a0episode\u00a0of “Quick Start”<\/strong><\/p>\n In his new book, \u201cThe Jesus Discoveries: 10 Historic Finds That Bring Us Face-to-Face with Jesus,\u201d\u00a0the scholar explores the Shroud of Turin and nine other discoveries that point to the historicity of Jesus. Johnston believes knowing more about these discoveries will help people better navigate faith discussions.<\/p>\n \u201cI\u2019m just simply serving it up to them, guiding them by the hand to say, \u2018Hey, here\u2019s 10 discoveries that are unimpeachable that you can use to evangelize others and start with your own children,’\u201d he said.<\/p>\n Johnston hopes to help people see some powerful truths about Jesus: that the Lord never shames people when they doubt. Instead, Johnston said, Jesus \u201csharpens us.\u201d Johnston hopes to inspire readers to see the archaeological evidence for Jesus as a compelling tool.<\/p>\n \u201cWe all have moments of doubt, and so one thing I wanted to do in my book, \u2018The Jesus Discoveries,\u2019 was really affirm the body of Christ, that our faith in Jesus is well placed,\u201d he said. \u201cIt\u2019s historically accurate, it\u2019s scientifically provable, and it is absolutely spiritually transformational.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" New Testament scholar Jeremiah J. Johnston believes the most compelling archaeological evidence for Jesus is the famed Shroud of Turin, a burial cloth believed by some to show an image created during Christ\u2019s resurrection. \u201cI\u2019ve published 300,000 words on the resurrection of Jesus,\u201d Johnston recently told CBN News. \u201cThat\u2019s my personal expertise. I\u2019m a historical<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":28069,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[5093,1896,478,481],"class_list":{"0":"post-28068","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-jesus","8":"tag-archaeological","9":"tag-compelling","10":"tag-evidence","11":"tag-jesus"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblelon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28068","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblelon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblelon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblelon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblelon.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=28068"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/biblelon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28068\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblelon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/28069"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblelon.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=28068"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblelon.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=28068"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblelon.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=28068"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}