Part 3: Jesus Died in Kashmir at age 120.
The Truth about The Santa Sindone (The Shroud of Turin).
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“The discovery of the tomb of Jesus is really the last nail in the coffin of the false Christian god who had been bolstered up throughout the world for nearly two thousand years with every earthly art, artifice, artificiality and violence.” (The Life of Ahmad, p. 319)
I will explain, shortly, how the ongoing controversy over The Shroud of Turin carries on my theme, in this series, about the contribution of Christianity to the birth of Zionism, as well as the birth of the death-cult misnomered1 “Israel.” The current dangers in the Middle East reveal how believing and living a fiction can actually lead to the extinction of all life on earth—plant, insect, animal and human—through a global thermonuclear war.
The Shroud of Turin (aka, The Santa Sindone) shows full-length front and back images of what appears to be a crucified man. It is made of fine linen and is 3.5 feet wide by a little over 14 feet long. The markings and the image on the Shroud appear to correspond to Biblical descriptions of the brutal beating and persecution of Jesus Christ.
The controversy over the Shroud has three basic components:
Is the Shroud a genuine ancient cloth that dates to 2000 years ago, whose markings reveal that the individual it wrapped had been brutalized?
Is the Shroud a Middle Ages forgery, created by a very clever artist?
Are the markings on the Shroud “proof” that it is the “burial” cloth of Jesus Christ?
In the late 1970s, early 1980s, a team of scientists examined every fiber of the Shroud. The team became known as STURP, the acronym taken from Shroud of Turin Research Project. The team was composed of nuclear physicists, thermal chemists, biophysicists, thermodynamicists, optical physicists, electricl power experts, and forensic pathologists.
Two of the photographers that would take photographs of every single portion of the Shroud were Vern Miller and Barrie Schwortz. The photgraph below was taken by Barry Schwortz, and appears on page 321 of my book, Saving the Savior: Did Christ Survive the Crucifixion, which was originally published by my press, Jammu Press, under my Arabic name, Abubakr Ben Ishmael Salahuddin. Upon my written request, Mr. Schwortz provided me with this photograph of the Shroud:
In my book, Saving the Savior, I thorougly cover the controvery surrounding the Shroud in the 34 pages of Appendix D. Throughout the Ages, the Vatican, which owns the Shroud, has occasionally paraded the Shourd, attempting to use it as “proof” that Jesus Christ actually did “die for the sins of the world,” that “proof” being the markings on the Shroud that appear to have been caused by a severe beating.
Opponents of that view, such as Holger Kersten (See his book, The Jesus Conspiracy: The Turin Shroud and the Truth about the Resurrection) state the opposite: that the markings and stains on the Shroud prove not that Jesus “rose from the dead,” in some miracularous manner, but quite the opposit: that Jesus survived the crucifixion physically, and in a natural manner. Crucifixion was meant to be a torture. To die as a result of crucifixion, one would have had to hang on the cross for days. Jesus was on the cross only for a few hours.
Since I am a propopnent of the belief that Jesus survived the crucifixion, was healed of his wounds, travelled with his mother, his aunt, and Mary Magadelene to Kashmir, married, lived a natural life and died a natural death, I am going to present only the parts of Appendix D of my book that support that belief. To find out the stance of the other side, you can obtain a copy of my book, Saving the Savior, or search for books that support the idea that the Santa Sindone proves that Jesus “rose from the dead.” I now present two important sections of Appendix D:
Holger Kersten demonstrates that the Santa Sindone shows markings that are identical to six of the Stations of the Cross reported in the Gospel.
An exerpt of Kert Berna’s book, Christ did not Perish on the Cross (1975), first published 1962, in German, under the title, Jesus nicht am Kreuz gesstorben. The excerpt that Berna provided was from Dr. Theodor Hirt
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Holger Kersten: The markings
The Man of the Shroud was alive.
Conclusion
As I showed in the two previous Parts of this series, the role of the eschatological beliefs of Christianity in the development of, and final creation of, Zionism, was massive. And, today, Evangelical Christian Zionists are the prime supporters of Zionism and the death-cult misnomered “Israel,” very much responsible for supporting the “settlers” who routinely steal Palestinian land for their goal of creating the death-cult as a land only for Jews.
The alleged return of a dead man, Yehoshuwah Ben Maryam (Jesus, son of Mary) to this earth is the single motivation for Evangelical Christian Zionist support of the death-cult, “Israel,” which now threatens the lives of 8 billion human beings on this earth due to its fanatical belief in the appearance of its Jewish Messiah. It seems rather shocking, doesn’t it, that a religion, Judaism, would produce a doctrine that sanctions the genocide of an entire people.
Well, Judaism did not produce such a doctrine. And you can discover this very, very easily by researching the works of non-Zionist Jews, which are available all over The Internet. It is there where you will find the true Judaism. .
I submit that the most powerful Zionists on this planet are Christians. It is the Christian nations, or nations where Christianity is supposedly the most influencial religion, such as the United States of America, where unlimited amounts of money, probably easily up into the trillions, if not hundreds of trillions of dollars, have been spent to support and sustain a sick, racist, supremacist, apartheid, psychopathic, death-cult mis-nomered “Israel.”
Like all holy men, Yehoshuwah Ben Maryam came; lived his life; delivered his Supreme Message; set the example of his message, and left. Let the man rest.
As with Parts 1 & 2 of this series, here are video-documentaries that you can watch that deal with the historical Jesus and his survival from the cross and his travel to Kashmir, India, as well as books that you can read that cover the same subject:
DOCUMENTARIES
Jesus in India (Produced by Paul Davids)
Jesus in Kashmir (Documentary produced by the Indian government)
Did Jesus Die (Produced by BBC-Four)
The Hidden Story of Jesus (Produced and directed by David Batty. Presented by Dr. Robert Beckford)
Jesus in India (Paul Wallis)
Jesus in India (A presentation by Edward T. Martin)
BOOKS
Jesus Lived in India - 264 p. (Holger Kersten)
Jesus Died in Kashmir - 184 p.(Andreas Faber-Kaiser)
Jesus in Heaven on Earth - 471 p. (Khwaja Nazir Ahmad)
Jesus in India - 315 p. (Dr. James Deardorff)
Jesus in India - 160 p. (Hazrat Mirza Ghulam Ahmad
NOTE: This is the first book published on the theory of a post-crucifixion life of Jesus. Although the book is partially tied to the author’s personal claim to be “The Promised Messiah & Mahdi,” this book is must reading. It was first published in the Urdu language, in 1908, under the title, Masih Hindustan Mein, i.e, Messiah in India)
Saving the Savior - 408 p. (Abubakr Salahuddin)
The Tomb of Jesus - 60 p. (Sufi Mutiur Rahman Bengalee)
The Lost Years of Jesus - 432 p. (Elizabeth Clare Prophet)
NOTE: This books examines the theory that Jesus spent those “lost years” of his life that are not accounted for in the Bible in “the Orient.” Some researchers, such as Ms. Prophet, believe that Jesus, between the ages of 13 and 29, went to India only before the crucifixion, some believe only after the crucifixion, and some believe both before and after the crucifixion. Ms. Prophet says that Jesus traveled to India, Nepal, Ladakh, and Tibet.
I say “misnomered” because Jacob (called Yacoub, in Qur’an), whose name was changed, by God, to Israel, was a righteous Prophet of God. And, as a righteous Prophet of God, he would never have condoned, nor committed, genocide, as is being committed, right now, by the country that Mahmood OD, at his YouTube Channel, has labeled a Death Cult.