Jesus Christ: space alien

According to Roger Olson, “Jesus post-resurrection body had substance, but was not composed of matter–at least not as we know it.”

So that presents two bracing possibilities:

i) The risen Christ was a phantom

ii) The risen Christ was a space alien, whose body was composed of exotic matter rather than protoplasm

Perhaps the body of the risen Christ was made of tachyons, R-baryons, or antiquarks–with negative mass. What happens when you get too close to Jesus? Do you vanish into a black hole, like the “Soft Light” episode of the X-Files?

This opens up exciting new fields in Christology, viz. exobiology, astrobiology, and xenobiology. Maybe Baylor will endow a new chair for Olson: The Distinguished H. G. Wells Professor of Exochristology.

I can hardly wait to see the thrilling developments. To boldly go where no postevangelical theologian has gone before.