“If any man teach otherwise, and consent not to wholesome words, even the words of our Lord Jesus Christ, and to the doctrine which is according to godliness; he is proud, knowing nothing, but doting about questions and strifes of words, whereof cometh envy, strife, railings, evil surmisings, perverse disputings of men of corrupt minds, and destitute of the truth, supposing that gain is godliness: from such withdraw thyself,” 1 Timothy 6:3-5.
A controversy has broken out as a result of the evil ravings of one, Joshua Heath, a junior research fellow at Trinity College, Cambridge. Heath claimed in a sermon that Christ had a “simultaneously masculine and feminine body” during the Crucifixion. He was supported in his vile assertions by Michael Banner, dean and director of studies in theology at Trinity, who said Heath’s view was “legitimate”!
It is reported in the press that worshippers left the chapel on Sunday of last week weeping, with one shouting “heresy” at the dean. I have not reproduced the news reports in any great detail for what it was this evil man said in his sermon, which caused some understandably to weep, is so offensive to decency, I was unable to read very much of the report before I was forced to stop,
Sadly, I feel, that the same ‘weepers’ will likely be back at this ‘chapel of corruption’ next week again. It seems that all too many professing Christians put loyalty to their place of worship far above loyalty to God and His Word.
God’s command to those offended by the evil surmising of these agents of the devil is plain.
“Be ye not unequally yoked together with unbelievers: for what fellowship hath righteousness with unrighteousness? and what communion hath light with darkness? And what concord hath Christ with Belial? or what part hath he that believeth with an infidel? And what agreement hath the temple of God with idols? for ye are the temple of the living God; as God hath said, I will dwell in them, and walk in them; and I will be their God, and they shall be my people. Wherefore come out from among them, and be ye separate, saith the Lord, and touch not the unclean thing; and I will receive you, and will be a Father unto you, and ye shall be my sons and daughters, saith the Lord Almighty,” 2 Corinthians 6:14-18.
The basis of Joshua Heath’s view of Christ (he is one of the many ‘educated ejits’ masquerading as God’s servants today) was the ‘Renaissance and Medieval paintings of the crucifixion’. These vain imaginings of these artists, most of whom if not all were men of utterly corrupt character, depicting the crucifixion of the Saviour hundreds of years after the event, is the ‘Bible’ upon which Heath rests his ‘evil surmisings’!
To liken this process of reasoning unto basing your view of God upon the 19th century work of children’s fiction, ‘Grimm’s Fairy Tales’ or making the fairy tale, ‘Goldilocks and the three bears’, the foundation of your thesis on matters divine, would be to grossly understate the matter. (more…)
The article below was kindly sent to me by a friend. Sadly, the article quotes a perversion of the Bible, the NIV! I do not necessarily endorse all that is written in this article but the core subject is to be noted by believers.