Heresy has long been a part of the Church. As long as people have been worshipping God, people have been getting things wrong in their understanding of God. One particularly strange (to put it very mildly) new heresy is one that came about at Cambridge University a number of years ago. This heresy is one which purports to believe that Jesus 'had a trans body'. This is based on the depiction of Christ on the cross by a medieval artist. The Telegraph newspaper and Church and Culture reported the following:
The latest is the claim that Jesus could have been transgender. Dr. Michael Banner, the dean of Trinity College, Cambridge, said that such a view was “legitimate” after a sermon by a student claimed that Christ had a “trans body.”
The sermon was given by Joshua Heath, a junior research fellow, during a Sunday evensong service at Trinity College chapel. In the course of his message, Heath displayed Renaissance and Medieval paintings of the crucifixion that depicted a side wound that he likened to a vagina.
I promise you I’m not making this up.
Beyond displaying a painting by Jean Malouel (the 1400 work Pietá), Heath also told worshippers that in the Prayer Book of Bonne of Luxembourg (from the 14th century), the side wound was isolated and “takes on a decidedly vaginal appearance.”
According to a report in the Telegraph, Heath also drew on non-erotic depictions of Christ’s penis in historical art, which “urge a welcoming rather than hostile response toward the raised voices of trans people.”
Going further, he argued that “In Christ’s simultaneously masculine and feminine body in these works, if the body of Christ as these works suggest the body of all bodies, then his body is also the trans body.”
So… three isolated pieces of medieval art (out of untold works) said to depict a side-wound that to the mind of this student looks like a vagina, and since there is also art that depicts Jesus with a penis, we obviously have an apologetic for affirming all things trans."
The utter fact that one would lean into these apparent heresies about the human nature of Christ is beyond strange...it is vilely disgusting at its core. We must pray that society does not continue down these pathways further...they lead nowhere but destruction!