I maintain that a disproportionate number of sadomasochists are Catholic.
Anyway, this is another time that I'd like to study theology--more from a scientific standpoint than to learn to become a clergyman. The gospels all have slightly to outright conflicting stories--and there are a ton of noncanonical gospels.
By all accounts Jesus has physically risen from the dead and is tooling around in a reanimated corpse. The Doubting Thomas story most clearly proves that. But he is often not recognized by his disciples until he does or says something--the supper at Emmaeus. He enters and leaves locked rooms. He spontaneously disappears--again, the supper at Emmaeus.
I gotta wonder, the pulp character The Shadow has a hypnotic ability to change his appearance, "dodge" bullets, become invisible, and other things. If Jesus was/is an advanced "homo superior" human of some kind, perhaps his body could recover from apparent death and mental projection powers account for some of the discrepancies in the gospels.*
*I mean, there are other much more plausible explanations for skeptics, but it isn't as interesting to argue that they were stories written long after Jesus life on Earth and many were perhaps created to advance a fledgling religion. Jesus was a Cylon is much more interesting.