“.. .the nature of the image and how it was fixed on the cloth remain deeply puzzling.” -Wikipedia 330px-Shroud_positive_negative_compare

The Resurrection

Urantia Book 189

The tomb of Joseph was empty, not because the body of Jesus had been rehabilitated or resurrected, but because the celestial hosts had been granted their request to afford it a special and unique dissolution, a return of the “dust to dust,”

without the intervention of the delays of time and without the operation of the ordinary and visible processes of mortal decay and material corruption.

The mortal remains of Jesus underwent the same natural process of elemental disintegration as characterizes all human bodies on earth except that, in point of time, this natural mode of dissolution was greatly accelerated, hastened to that point where it became well-nigh instantaneous.… but we would have his mortal remains put in our custody for immediate dissolution. We do not propose to employ our technique of dematerialization; 

we merely wish to invoke the process of ACCELERATED TIME. 

His material or physical body was not a part of the resurrected personality.

When Jesus came forth from the tomb, his body of flesh remained undisturbed in the sepulchre…” 

It is enough that we have seen the Sovereign live and die on Urantia;

the hosts of heaven would be spared the memory of enduring the sight of the slow decay of the human form

of the Creator and Upholder of a universe. In the name of the celestial intelligences of all

Nebadon,

I ask for a mandate giving me the custody of the mortal body of Jesus of Nazareth and empowering us to proceed with its immediate dissolution.”

None of these watchers suspected that the object of their vigil had risen to a new and

higher form of existence

 and that the body which they were guarding was now a discarded outer covering which had no further connection with the delivered and resurrected morontia personality of Jesus…

 

“Shroud of Turin ~ Carbon-14  ” Bringing the physical body to a higher  morontia  level…” –Michael of Maui

MORONTIA ORDER OF EXISTENCE