EASTER 2014: Important new open discussion on this blog:
Heaven is for Real, the Akiane Prince of Peace, the ISA Mosaic and the Shroud of Turin
Also see:
- Akiane’s Jesus, Heaven is for Real and the Man in the Turin Shroud
- Still More on Akiane’s Jesus, Heaven is for Real and the Man in the Shroud
One reader writes:
Can you imagine what might have happened if the 4 year old kid had been shown a picture of the shroud and said, “Yep, Dad, that’s him.”
Another reader writes:
This idea that the Akiane portrait looks like the Shroud face or the face developed by the History Channel assumes that Jesus had a haircut or a full salon treatment sometime between the time he was in the tomb and the time that Colton saw him. I’m dubious of the account in the book but I can’t rule it out. There is a resemblance.
Actually, the image was developed by Ray Downing and his team for the History Channel.
BostonBean wrote:
I think the painting of Jesus by Akiane Kramarik looks like the Shroud inspired painting of Jesus by Ariel Aggemian. Given that I have reservations about such visions or near death encounters, I find it very spooky.
B&B comments:
The Akiane looks like the St. Catherine Pantocrator with a new hair style.
And finally one reader of this blog wrote:
Maybe Akiane’s vision was the face on the Shroud. Remember that a vision is just that, a vision. It could come from a book or a picture in the news. The memory of a seven-year-old child being asked over and over to remember what he saw at age four is also something to take with a grain of salt. But they do look similar.