Evangelist Franklin Graham held little back this week when he publicly rebuked a University of Cambridge research student’s purported claim Jesus has a “trans body,” calling the utterance “repulsive” and a “heresy.”
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Graham responded in a Facebook post to a news report about a U.K. man who reportedly delivered a sermon earlier this month about the subject — an address that left some congregants so angry they were in tears.
Others reportedly shouted, “Heresy!” as Joshua Heath spoke about depictions of Jesus in art.
“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,” Heath reportedly said.
Graham shared a link to a story about how Trinity College dean Dr. Michael Banner publicly defended Heath for his remarks, according to Fox News.
“This is repulsive and shameful,” the evangelist wrote. “To insinuate that Jesus Christ, the Holy Son of God, is transgender or to sexualize in any way His sacrificial death on the Cross for the sins of mankind is utter heresy.”
He said it should be no surprise why some were so disgusted and in tears after the “blasphemous message,” and offered a dire warning.
“The Bible warns us about false teachers,” Graham continued. “This speaker and the dean at the University of Cambridge who defended him, are false teachers, preaching heresy.”
He added, “People don’t need messages from the pulpit that are trying to interpret art like this speaker was — people need the truth of the Word of God that has the power of God to change hearts and lives for eternity!”
Graham concluded with 2 Peter 2:1, a verse that decries false teachers and warns of their “destruction.”
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