Resurrection Or Resuscitation?
Ahmed Deedat
In lesson No.2- "Who Moved the Stone?"*
I had promised to deal with the anomaly, where believers were reading simple English, yet were so conditioned that they were understanding exactly the OPPOSITE of what they were reading. The following story from real life will not only illustrate the point but will also elucidate our present case - "RESURRECTION OR RESUSCITATION?"
I was about to leave for the Transvaal on a lecture tour, so I phoned my friend hafiz Yusuf Dadoo of Standerton, informing him of my impending visit, as well as to enquire whether he needed anything from Durban. He said that as he was taking up Hebrew, I should try and obtain a Bible in the Nebrew language with a translation in English side by side.
I went to the "BIBLE HOUSE" in Durban. Without any difficulty I found the appropriate Bible for my friend, the "Authorised Version," also known as the "King James Version," looking for one with the best print and at the cheapest price, I noticed the lady behind the counter had lifted up the telephone to speak to someone. I was out of hearing distance, nor was I interested, but after an exchange with the preson on the other side of the line she put her hand on the mouthpiece and addressed me.
"Excuse me, sir, are You Mr Deedat?" I siad, "yes." She said, "The Supervisor of the Bible Society would like to speak to you." "It would be my pleasure," I answered. She spoke a few more words into the telephone and replaced the receiver. I said with a smile, "I thought that you were ringing the police." (perhaps because of the number of bibles I was handling) - She laughed and said, "No, it was the Rev. Roberts, the Supervisor, who wishes to speak to you."
WINNING A CONVERT
Presently, Rev. Roberts approached me and after introducing himself, he gestured to me to hand over to him the Bible which I was holding in my hand. I handed the book. He opened it and began reading to me - "and this is life eternal that they should know Thee the only True God and Jesus Christ whom Thou has sent." (John 17"3). (Subsequently, I checked up the Gospel references of his quotations).
After having listened to his reading of this scripture, I responded with the words: "I accept!" - meaning the implication of the Message he was trying to convey to me. I did not tell him then that what he was trying to convey to me was the same as the Holy Qur`an was telling mankind for the past fourteen hundred years - that all must believe in the 'ONE AND ONLY GOD ALMIGHTY AND JESUS CHRIST is only a MESSENGER OF GOD.' The words of the Holy Qur`an are as follows:-
"MOST CERTAINLY THE MESSIAH, JESUS THE SON OF MARY,
WAS AN APOSTLE OF ALLAH* AND HIS WORD,
WHICH HE BESTOWED ON MARY AND A SPIRIT PROCEEDING FROM HIM.:
SO BELIEVE IN ALLAH AND HIS APOSTLES..." Holy Qur`an 4:171
LOVE ONE ANOTHER
Rev. Roberts must have been elated to hear my words - "I ACCEPT," to his first quatation. He quickly opened the Bible in another place and began reading these words attributed to Jesus:-
"A new commandment I give unto you. That ye love one another; as I have loved you, that ye also love one another." By this shall all men know that ye are my disciples, if ye have love for one another." John 13:34-35
A NEW CONVERT?
When he had finished reading these verses, I remarked - "very good!" He was greatly encouraged with my comment. I sincerely menat what I said, and there was no pretence. The Reverend found yet another quotation to clinch a convert for Christ. He began:-
"Judge not that ye be not judged." "For with what judgement ye judge, ye shall be judged; and with what measure ye mete, it shall be measured to you again." Matthew 7:1-2
To this quotation I responded with the words, "I agree!" My only reason for agreeing and accepting everything that the Reverend was reading to me was not of the "special discount" I was getting from the Bible Society on my purchases, but because these particular quotations were conveying the same message and ideals which Allah Subhanahoo Wa Ta`aala was commanding the Muslims to preach and practice.
I would be spiritually jaundiced totake exceptions to what was common to both of us - The MUSLIM and the CHRISTIAN. For me to say that an identical message from my Book (the Holy Qur`an) was VERY GOOD, but the same message in his Book (the Holy Bible) was VERY BAD would be hypocritical in the extreme. It would be soul shaming untruth.
THE PURPOSE
What was the real purpose of the Reverend's reading the Scripture to me? Indeed, I was getting a special discount on all my purchases from the Bible Society and I was perhaps the only non-Christian to get such a discount, though it was depending purely on a business transaction, and this information must have been passed on to the Reverend as the Head of the Bible Society; that I was a Muslim there was no mistaking my identity, for my beard and my deadgear were the badges of Faith, easily recognised as such in this part of the world; and that, despite my numerous purchases of the Bibles in English (various versions), in Zuly, Afrikaans, Jrdu, Arabic and other languages, I was not yet "converted" Perhaps, what I really needed was a gentle push, the Supervisor must have been told. Hence the recitation of the preceding quotations to me. The implication of this reading was that I had probably not read those beautiful passages; how else was it possible, then, that I had not yet embrached Christianity?
A PROBLEM
The Reverend gentleman had taken the role of a teacher who wanted to teach, who wanted to impart new knowledge to his pupil.
Since I am commanded by my Prophet (peace be upon him) to "SEEK KNOWLEDGE FROM THE CRADLE TO THE GRAVE," and "SEEK KNOWLEDGE EVEN IF IT BE IN CHINA," I wanted to learn. I said, "I agree with all that you have read to me, but I have a problem with you Bible," "What problem have you got? he asked, I said, "please opne the Gospel of St. Luke, Chapter 3 verse 23." This he did. I said, "please read." He read:- "And Jesus himself began to be about thirty years of age, being (as was supposed) the son of Joseph, which was the son of Heli," Luke 3:23
I drew the Reverend's attention to the words - "(AS WAS SUPPOSED)' I said, "Do you see that the words 'as was supposed' are written within brackets?" He said that he saw that. I asked him, "why are the brackets there?" He acknowledged, "I don't know, but I could find out for you from some Bible scholars." I admired his humility. Though I knew that all Supervisors of Bible Houses in South Africa are retired reverends, it was possible that this aspect of Bible knowledge was beyond their sphere. I said, "If you do not know then let me tell you what the brackets are doing there in this verse. You do not have to take the trouble of looking for a Bible scholar."
I explained that in the "most ancinet' manuscripts of Luke, the words (AS WAS SUPPOSED)' are not there. Your translators felt that without this interpolation the "little lambs" not well grounded in faith, might slip and fall into the error of believing that JOSEPH the Carpenter was the actual physical father of Jesus. So they took the precaution of adding their own comment in BRACKETS to avoid any misunderstanding. I said, "I am not trying to find fault with your system of adding words in brackets to assist the reader, but what intrigues me is that in all translations of the Bible in the African and Eastern languages you you have retained the words "as was supposed" but have REMOVED THE BRACKETS, Couldn't the nations of the Earth besides the English understand the meaning and purpose of the brackets?
What is wrong with the Afrikaner? Why have you eliminated the brackets from the Afrikaans Bible? The supervisor protested, " I didn't do it." I said, " know that you personally did not do it but why have the Bible Society that you represent and your Bible scholars been playing with the "Word of God?" If God Almighty did not see fit to preserve Luke from error, what right has anybody to add to or delete from words in the "Book of God?" What right have you to manufacture 'GODS WORDS?"
INTERPOLATIONS
The translators' own addition of words in brackets can easily be put into the mouth of St. Luke by merely removing the brackets, and by implication, if Luke was imspired by God to write what he did, then the interpolations automatically become the WORD OF GOD, which really is not the case. (More will be said on this subject in the forthcoming publication - "is the Bible God's Word?)* I concluded my explanation with the words - "Your theologinas of the day have succeeded where the alchemists of youre failed - of turning beser metal into shining gold."
THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE
At this stage the Reverend introduced irrelevancies into the discussion and the subject chagned. He made some claims which made me say, "You see, sir, you English people do not know your own language." (With apologies to my readers whose mother tongue is English.) He quickly retorted, "You mean to say that you know my language better than I do?" I said, "It would be presumptuous on my part to tell - an Englishman - that I understand your language better than you do."
"Then what do you mean that we English people do not know our own language?" he demanded. I said again, "You see, Sir, you read your Holy Scripture in your mother tongue, like every Christian belonging to a thousand, different language groups, and yet each and every Christian language group understands that facts, OPPOSITE to what he is reading." What are you refering to?" he asked.
A GHOST
I contiuned: "Do yu remember the occasion when Jesus returend to that upper room after his alleged crucifixion 'and saith unto them, his (disciples), Peace be unto you' (Luke 24:36) and his disciples were terrified on recognising him?" He answered that he remembered that incident. I enquired, "Why should they be terrified? When one recongnises one's long-lost friend or one's beloved, the natural reaction is to feel overjoyed, elated and one wants to embrace and kiss the hands and feet of the beloved. Why did they get terrified?"
The Reverend replied that, "They (the disciples) thought that they were seeing a ghost." I asked, "Did Jesus look like a ghost?" He said, "No." "Then why did they think that they were seeing a ghost when he did not look like a ghotst?" I queried. The Reverend was clearly puzzled. I said, "Please allow me to explain.
DISCIPLES NOT EYE WITNESSES
"You see, sir, the disciples of Jesus were not EYE-witnesses, or EAR-witnesses to the actual happenings of the previous three days, as vouched for by St. Mark who says that at the most critical juncture in the life of Jesus, "they all forsook him and fled," (Mark 14:50).
All the knoweldge of the disciples regarding their Master was from hearsay. They had heard that their master was HANGED ON THE CROSS they had heard that he had GIVEN UP THE GHOST they had heard that he was DEAD AND BURIED FOR THREE DAYS. If one is confronted by a person with such a reputation then the conclusion is inescapable; they must be seeing a GHOST. Little wonder these ten brave men were petrified."
"To disabuse their minds from the fear that gripped them, Jesus reasoned with them. He said, 'Behold my hands and my feet, that it is I myself: To put it in colloquial English, this is how he told them: WHAT IS WRONG WITH YOU FELLOWS, CAN'T YOU SEE THAT I AM THE SAME PERSON- who walked and talked with you, broke bread with you-flesh and blood in all respects.
Why do doubts enter you minds? 'Handle me and see, for a spirit has no flesh and bones as you see me have.'(Luje 24:39). In other words he is telling them: If I have FLESH and BONES, then I am not a GHOST, not a SPOOK and not a SPIRIT!" "Is that right?" I asked. "Yes," he replied. I continued that, Jesus is telling them, as recorded in this verse, in Basic English, that what the disciples were asked to "HANDLE AND SEE' was not a translated body, not a metamorphosed body and not a resurrected body, because a RESURRECTED body, is a SPIRITUALISED body.
He is telling them in the clearest language humanly possible that he is NOT what they were thinking. They were thinking that he was a SPIRIT, a RESURRECTED body, one having been brought back from the dead. He is most emphatic the HE IS NOT!"
SPIRITUALIZATION
'But how can you be so sure that the resurrected body cannot materialise physically as Jesus had obviously done?" murmured the Reverend. I replied: "Because Jesus ahd himself pronounced that the resurrected bodies get spritualised." When did he say any such thing?" enquired the Reverend. I answered, "Do you remember the incident as recorded in the Gospel of St. Luke, Chapter 20, where the learend men of the Jews- "the chief priestsand the scribes with the elders'- had come to him with a number of posers, and among them was one about a Jewess who had seven husbands in turn, one after another according to a Jewish custom, and in time all seven husbands and the woman too died?" The Reverend sadi that he did remember the occasion.
I continued: "The trap that the religious meirachy was trying to spring on him was; which one of the seven husbands was going to possess the woman on the 'Other side' - at the resurrection? - since they reasoned with Jesus that the seven brothers "had her." There was no problem while they fulfilled their obligation of trying to give her a child, because they had possessed her one by one in turn, and it was after the death of one that the other had taken her to wife.
But since at the resurrection all seven will be brought to life simultaneously, there will be strife in heaven because all seven would want to get at her at the same tiem, specially if they had pleasure with her."
"Jesus debunked their false notion of the resurrection, by saying that at the resurrection 'neither shall they die any more:' (Luke 20:36) meaning that the resurrected persons will be IMMORTALISED.
They will not be subject to death any more, no more hunger or thirst, no more fatigue. In short, all the instruments of death will be powerless against the resurrected body. Jesus continues to explain: "for they (the resurrected bodies) are equal unto the angles," that is, that they will be ANGELISED - spiritualised, that they will become spirit-creature, i.e. SPIRITS; and the children of God, for such are the
children of the resurrection.' (Luke 20:36)
JESUS NOT SPIRITUALISED
I was taken off from the theme I was expounding two paragraphs above by the Reverend with the challenge, "But how can you be so sure...?" To continue from where I had deviated above - 'HE IS NOT' what they were thinking, that he was not a SPIRIT, not a GHOST, not a SPOOK. To assure them further after having offered his hands and feet for inspection and verification that his was a material, physical body, and that all their bewilderment and disbelief was unjustified, he asked his disciples: "Have you here any meat?" (Meaning something to eat). 'And they gave him a place of brolled fish and of a honeycomb, and he took it, and did eat before them.' (Luke 24:41-43)
A DRAMA?
What was Jesus trying to prove by all his demonstrations of wanting his hands and feet to be handled and chewing and masticating broiled fish and honeycomb?
What all this a pretence, make-beliefe, an act or drama? "No!" Said Schleliermacher in 1819, a hundred years before I was born. Albert Schweizer records him saying, "IF CHRIST HAD ONLY EATEN TO SHOW THAT HE COULD EAT, WHILE HE REALLY HAD NO NEED OF NOURISHMENT, IT WOULD HAVE BEEN A PRETENCE - SOMETHING DOCETIC" ("In Quest of the Historical Jesus, "page 64)
I had not know of Schieliermacher and other Christian scholars who over a hundred years ago doubted the death of Jesus on the cross as recorded by Albert Scheweizer, when I was discussing this subject with the head of the Bible Society.
NO RESURRECTION
"What is wrong with you (Christian) flok?" Jesus is telling you in the most unambiguous language that he is not a SPIRIT - not spiritualilsed, not a RESURRECTED person, and yet the whole christian world believes the he was RESURRECTED, i.e. SPIRITUALISED. Who is lying, you or him? How is it possible that you (each and every Christian) are reading your Holy Bible in your own mother tongue and yet EACH AND EVERY LANGUAGE GROUP IS MADE TO UNDERSTAND THE EXACT OPPOSITE OF WHAT THEY ARE READING? If you read the bible, say, in Hebrew, and pleaded that you did not understand what you were reading,
I can appreciate this fact. If you read it in Greek and pleaded that you did not really understand the implications of what was written; I can appreciate this fact, also. But the anomaly is that you are reading the Book, each and every one, IN HIS OWN MOTHER TONGUE, and are trained to understand the OPPOSITE of what is written. How have you been brainswashed, or rather ,how have you been 'programmed," as the Americans would put it.
"Please tell me as to who is lying? Is it Jesus or a thousand million Christians of the world? Jesus says, "NO!" to his being, resurrected, and all of you say "YES!" Whom are we Muslims to believe, Jesus or his so called disciples? We Muslims would rather believe the master. Did he not say, "The disciple is not greater than the Master." (Matthew 10: 24)
This was nore than the Reverend had bargained for. He politely excused himself by saying that as he had to get ready to close his office, he would look forward to meeting me again. This was sheer evasive politeness!
With the Bible Society, I won the DEBATE but lost the DISCOUNT! No more discount for me from the Bible Society. But let my loss be your gain. If you dear reader, can remove a few cobwebs from your thinking on the subject of the 'CRUCIFIXION,' I will be amply rewarded.
Those of you who have already mastered Lesson No. 1 and 2 from "What was the Sign of jonah?" and "Who Moved the Stone?" will do well to memorise the following verses for your Lesson NO. 3 if you have not yet recieved your FREE copies of the foregoing literature, please do not hesitate to write. We will also forward you a more comprehesnive work on the subject "WAS CHRIST CRUCFIED?" also absolutely FREE on request.
"Jesus himself stood in their midst, and said unto them, Peace be unto you.
"But they were terrified, and supposing that they were seeing a spirit.
"And he said unto them,...
"Behold my hands and my feet, that it is I myself: handle me and see; for a spirit has not flesh and bones, as you see me have.
"And showed them his hands and feet.
"And while they yet believed not for joy and wondered, he said unto them, Have ye here any meat?
"And they gave him a piece of brolled fish, and of a honeycomb.*
"And he took it, and did eat before them.
* The words: "AND OF AN HONEYCOMB" are now expunged from the 'Revised Standard Version" of the Bible and from other translations in the African Languages Why? Our publication, "IS THE BIBLE GODS WORD? explains. If you have not received your FREE copy, write for yours NOW!
THE FAMILY OF "GOD"
"God" Was the Son of Joseph: "Philip findeth Nathanael, and saith unto him We have found him of whom Moses in the law, and the prophets, did write, Jesus of Nazareth, THE SONS OF JOSEPH,." (John, 1:45)
Brothers and Brothers-in-law of "God" And when he was come into his own country, he taught them in their synagogue, insomuch that they were astonished, and said, whence hath this man this wisdom, and these mighty workds? Is not this the carpenter's son? Is not his mother called Mary ? and his brethren, James, and Joses, and Judas? And his sisters, are
they not all with us? Whence hath this man all these things? (Matthew, 13:54-56).
THE DEVELOPMENT OF "GOD"
Spiritual Development of "God" And the child grew, and waxed strong in spirit, filled with wisdom. " (Luke, 2: 40)
Mental, Phusical and Moral Development of "God".
And Jesus increased in wisdom and stature, and in favour with God and man." (Luke, 2:52)
"God" Was Twelve Years Old When His Parents Took Him to jerusalem: "Now his parents
went to Jerusalem ever year at the feast of the passover. And when he was twelve years old, they went up to jerusalem after the custom to the feast." (Luke, 2:41-42)
The Powerless "God" Jesus said, I can of mine own self do nothing." (John, 5: 30)
"God" Was Ignorant of the Time: Jesus said: "But of that day and that hour knoweth no man, no, not the angels which are in heaven, neither the Son, but the Father." (Mark, 13: 32)
"God Was Ignorant of the Season: "And on the morow, when they were come from Bethany, He (Jesus was hungry: And seeing a fig tree afar off having leaves, he came, if haply he might find anything thereon: and when he came to it, he found nothing but leaves; for the time of figs was not yet.' (mark, 11-13)
"God" Was Unlettered: "Now about the midst of the feast Jesus went up into the temple, and taught, And the jews marvelled, saying, How knoweth this man letters, having never learned? (John, 7: 14-15)
"God" Learnt Through Experience: "Learned he obedience by the things which he suffered. (hebrews, 5:8)
THE TEMPTING OF "GOD"
The Devil Tempted "God" For 40 Days : " And immediately the spirit driveth him into the wilderness. And he was there in the wilderness forty days, tempted of Satan," (Mark, 11 12-13)
The Devil Tempted "God" Continuously: And when the devil had ended all the temptation, he departed from him for a reason." (Luke, 4, 13)
Like The Sinner, "God" Was Tempted In All Things: "But (he) was in all points tempted like as we are, yet without sin." (Hebrews, 4:15)
True God Cannot be Tempted With Evil: "God cannot be tempted with evil, neither tempteth he any man." (James, 1: 13)
Only The Ungodly Are tempted With Evil: But every mani s tempted , when he id drawn away of his own lust, and enticed." (James, 1:14)
THE MISSION OF "GOD"
The Confession and Repentance of "God" Before the beginning of his public ministry, Jesus was baptized by John the Baptist (Matthew, 3:13), which signified the confession of sins (Matthew, 3:6) and repentance from his sins (Matthew, 3:11)
"God" Did Not Come to Save the Sinners: "And when he was alone, they that were about him with the twelve asked of him the parable. And he said unto them, unto you it is given to know the mystery of the kingdom of God: but unto them that are without, all these things done in parables: That seeing they may see and not perceive; and hearing they may hear, and not understand; LEST AT ANY TIME THEY SHOULD BE CONVERTED, AND THEIR SINS SHOULD BE FORGIVEN THEM."

THE RACIAL "GOD"
"God" Was A Tribal Jew: "The Loin of the tribe of Juda." Revelation, 5:5)
"God" Came For The Jews Only: But he answered and said, I am not sent but unto the lost sheep of the house of Israel; " (Matthew, 15: 24)
Racial Discrimination of "God": "These twelve Jesus sent forth, and commanded them, saying: God not into the way of the Gentiles, and into any city of the Samaritans enter ye not: But go rather to the lost sheep of the house of Israel." (Matthew, 10:5-6)
According to "God" The Gentiles Are Dogs: "it is not meet to take the children's bread, and to cast it to dogs. (Matthew, 15: 26)
The Kingdom of "God": And he (Jesus) shall reign over THE HOUSE OF JACOB for ever; and of his kingdom there shall be no end." (Luke, 1: 33)
The Title of "God" "The King of the Jews" (Matthew, 2:2); The King of Israel" (John, 1:49: 12: 13)
A "GOD" UNLIKE THE GOD
A Hungry "God" And when he had fasted forty days and forty nights, he was afterward an Hungered." (Matthew, 4:2) "Now in the morning as he returned into the city , he HUNGERED," (Matthew 21:18) "and on the morrow, when they were come from Bethany, he was HUNGRY," (Mark, 11:12)
A Thirsty "God" ("He saith, I THIRST." (John, 19: 12) A Sleepy "God". He was ASLEEP." (Matthew, 21:18) "he fell ASLEEP)" (Luke, 8: 23) And he was in the hinder part of the ship, ASLEEP on a pillow." (Mark, 4: 38)
A . Weary "God": Jesus therefore , being WEARIED WITH HIS JOURNEY , SAT THUS ON THE WELL." ( John, 4: 6)
A Groaning "God" : "He GROANED in the spirit, and was TROUBLED." (John, 11: 33).
Jesus therefore again GROANING IN HIMSELF COMETH TO THE GRAVE." (JOHN, 11: 38)
A Weeping "God" "Jesus WEPT " (John, 11: 35)
A Sorrowing "God" And (he) began to be SORROWFUL: and VERY HEAVY." (Matthew, 26: 37)
"Then saith he unto them, My soul is EXCEEDING SORROWFUL, even unto death." (Matthew, 26: 38)
A hesterical "God" " And (he) began to be SORE AMAZED and to be VERY HEAVY." (Mark, 14: 33)
A Weak "God" "And there appeared an angel unto him from heaven, STRENGTHENING him." (Luke , 22:43)
THE WARRING "GOD"
The Strong-Arm method of "God" "And he went into the temple, and began TO CAST OUT them that sold therein, and them that bought . (Luke 19: 45) And the Jews' Passover was at hand, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem, And found in the temple those that sold oxen and sheep and doves, and the changers of money sitting: And when he had made a SOURGE of small cords, HE DROVE THEM ALL out of the temple, and the sheep, and the oxen; and POURED OUT the changers' money and OVERTHREW the tables" (John, 2:13-15)
The "God" of War: Jesus Said: Think not that I am come to send peace on earth: I came not to send peace, but a SWORD." (Matthew 10:34)
"God" Was Panic-Stricken." After these things Jesus walked in Galilee: for he could not walk in Jewry, because the Jews sought to kill him." (John, 7:1)
"God" Walked in Fear of the Jews: "Then from that day forth they took counsel together for to put him death. Jesus therefore waled no more openly among the Jews>" (John, 11: 53-54)
"God Fled in Disguise: Then took they up stones to cast at him: but Jesus hid himself, and went out of the temple, going through the midst of them, and so passed by," (John, 8:59)
THE CAPTURE OF "GOD"
A Friend Betrayed The Secret Hiding Place of "God" "And Judas also which betrayed him , knew the place: for Jesus oft-times resorted thither with his disciples. Judas then, having received a band of men and officers from the chief priest and Pharisees, comet thither with lanterns and torches and weapons." (John, 18: 2-3)
"God" Was Arrested. Bound and Led Away: "then the band and the captain and officers of the Jews took Jesus, and bound him and led him away." (john, 18:12:13)
"God" Was Humiliated: "And the men that held Jesus mocked him, and smote him. And when they had blindfolded him, they struck him on the face." (Luke, 22: 63-64) "The did they spit in his face, and buffeted him; and others smote him with the palms of their hands." (Matthew, 26:64)
"God" Was Defenseless: "One of the officers which stood by struck Jesus with the palm of his hand", he said, "Why smitest thou me? (John, 18:22-23)
"God" Was Condemned to Death: "And they all condemned him to be guilty of death." (mark, 14:64). "They answered and said, He is guilty of death." (Matthew, 26:66)
The Dumb and docile "God" "He was led as a sheep to the slaughter; and like a lamb dumb before his sharer, so opened he not his mouth." (Acts, 8:32)
THE SUPPOSED END OF "GOD"
The Dying "God": "And Jesus Cried with a loud voice, and gave up the ghost." (Mark, 15:37)
The "god" That was supposed Dead and Defunct: "Christ died." (Romans, 5:6) "he was dead". (John, 19:33)
The supposed Corpse of "God": "he (Joseph of Arimathaea) went to Pilate, and begged the body of Jesus. then Pilate commanded the body to be delivered." (matthew,27:58)
The "Shroud" of "God": And when Joseph had taken the body, he wrapped it in a clean linen cloth." (Matthew, 27:59)
The "Obituary" of the "Late" and Lamented "God" "Now when the centurion saw what was done, he glorified God saying saying, Certainly this was righteous man." (Luke,23:47)