If Jesus did not die upon the cross: A study in evidence - a knol by Zia Shah

This is a small booklet with a very descriptive title, written by an Australian Judge, in 1920. He became a judge of the District Court and chairman of Quarter Sessions for the north-western district in 1881. He retired in 1918 after the passage of the Judges Retirement Act.

He examines the limitations in the so called testimony of the apostles about resurrection in his book.
He makes several strong points against resurrection of Jesus, may peace be on him, but one that can be described in a few lines is quoted here:

"He (Jesus) expressed his forebodings to His disciples, I firmly believe; I am equally convinced that He did not predict His rising again. The Conduct of the disciples after crucifixion shows that they had no expectation of a resurrection; and it is altogether incredible that they could have forgotten a prediction so remarkable."

There are 15 parts of this short booklet by Ernest Brougham Docker, published in 1920. The fifth part concludes with this paragraph:

"Dr. Sparrow Simpson also goes too far when he says (p. 47): 'Believing as we do that all the evidence concurs in declaring that the grave was vacant, the interpretation of the fact must be ultimately one of two things: either this was a human work, or else it was the work of God. Either human hands removed the corpse or the Almighty raised the dead. That is exactly the question.' I venture to submit that that is not exactly the question. What if the supposed corpse was not really dead, and revived? I confidently submit that this interpretation of the fact of the vacant grave is ample and satisfactory. It postulates neither fraud nor miracle."

In this knol we present the 'Word' file of the booklet. It can also be read in PDF format at the following link:

http://www.ahmadiyya times.com/files/IfJesusDidNotDieUponTheCross.pdf

For additional details that Jesus did not die on the cross, go to my other knol:

http://knol.google.c om/k/jesus-did-not-die-on-the-cross#

The picture in the knol and accentuation of certain paragraphs have been added by me.