You're watching one of a series of videos where Elisa Childers and I respond to 23 progressive Christian claims,

kind of like a progressive Christian manifesto that was written by Ragamuffin TV.

We deal with these claims, some good, some bad, some ugly, and I'm hoping

that this helps you to think biblically.

All right, number two in the list is, it's not a sin to be gay. How would you respond to that Mike?

I think I would I mean I wish I could talk to the person right who's writing this because I would first

want to have them explain what do you mean by be gay?

Because that's really key here.

Are you talking about an identity or a behavior?

Right.

And if you're talking about an identity, then I mean, it's irrelevant to the issue.

I know if you are tempted with homosexual desires or any sort of sexually sinful desire, your temptation is not a sin, giving and

yielding your heart to it so it becomes fantasizing or if you yield your life in your

body to it so it becomes the action, then it's a sin and in that case, yeah, it's a sin.

And the response to this isn't like Christian saying, Pray the Gay Away, that's the verse.

That's the quote I always hear.

I never hear anybody saying it like they mean it

it's always saying it like sort of caricature the conservative oppressive

Christians that we all that we all are and that's not actually the goal

biblically it's died itself it's resist temptation and honor Christ with your life

and there's gonna be a host of things you know number one and two of these first two questions, they're about

liberating a person to relax and just kind of be who they are, be who they want to be.

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