Did Jesus Really Suffer on the Cross?

Jesus did not descend from the cross. He was powerless, delivered up to his opponents. There was a false and erroneous form of Christianity that refused to accept that. As early as the second century the evil flower of Docetism put out its shoots. This was a belief that what hung on the cross was only the appearance of a body. Of course, the real Jesus was not miserably crucified, because the Son of God certainly could not suffer! Islam still maintains this Docetic heresy when it says of the prophet Isa (=Jesus) that he was confused with someone else, that Jesus did not die on the…