A reader writes:
Dear Dr. Roemer:
You start your slide show with a fairly good summary of some of the recent scientific discoveries about the shroud’s image. Then you quote some ancient documents in a rather untidy way, I think to tell us that the Image of Edessa is the Shroud of Turin. I have no issue with that.
Then come these exact words of yours, in order. The bullets are added.
Gnostics thought you got to Heaven, not by being good, but by being bad. Gnostics may have been capable of crucifying someone in the 1st or 2nd century in order to create an imprint of his body. If so, the technique and skills they used to do this have been lost to history. There is evidence that there were a lot of Gnostics in Edessa in the 2nd and 3rd centuries.That’s it? Gnostics may have been capable and if so the technique is lost and there were maybe a lot of Gnostics in Edessa. That’s it? I find this no more compelling then speculations like ‘da Vinci did it’ or ‘it is an image of Jacques de Molay.’
Original posting with comments: Was the Shroud of Turin created by Gnostics?