The Gay Gene - “If Your Straight Desires Are Natural, Why Not My Homosexual Desires?”

Greg answers the question “How can I argue that gay people aren’t born that way if I seem to have been born with the desire for premarital sex?”
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  • @ronsmith2241
    @ronsmith224116 сағат бұрын

    The fact that I am gay was medically proven during electronic shock therapy. I am proud of who I am as a gay man.

  • @raindacer
    @raindacer8 күн бұрын

    Testimony of David Wood. Naturally born without empathy, choose to love and do the right thing

  • @Yesica1993

    @Yesica1993

    8 күн бұрын

    Love him so much!

  • @JadDragon
    @JadDragon8 күн бұрын

    Jesus lives ♥️ and is God 🙏🏻 Christ ✝️ and King 👑

  • @PhDpad
    @PhDpad9 күн бұрын

    I disagree with your approach. I think it's a trap to make this argument from the perspective of "its not natural or immutable." Because firstly, that allows for your argument to succumb to new information. What if older studies are shown to be fallacious, or what if new studies show, unequivicably, that there is actually a"gay gene"? You briefly alluded to acknowledged the correct answer early on: even if it were natural, even if it were immutable, that doesn't make it right. The entire Christian faith is predicated on the harmatological belief that we are Naturally and Immutably sinful, apart from a Miracle. So this isn't even a hard case to make. "Your homosexual desires are sinful just like my heterosexual desires are/were." At the core of this issue is how we as Christians define right and wrong, and why we define it that way. Do we teach our children to abstain from stealing because its "unnatural"? Or to be honest? No. Then why are we relying on that for sexual morality? Are people with Kleptomania excused to steal? Of course not. But is the reason that stealing is wrong, simply because the rest of us.. aren't kleptomaniacs? That is the argument you are making when you appeal to natural biology for why homosexuality is wrong. This is the way the majority are, so the deviaton from the majority is "sin." Clearly this isn't the case. And reminds where our definition of right and wrong come from; the special and general revelations of Moral Law. Deviation from God's design is what makes it sin; and God's design for sexuality isn't simply: if it's heterosexual, it's okay. When we look at the total picture of God's design for sexuality, there are some follow on questions... Do we expect non-christians to view marriage as a sacred metaphor for Christ and the Church? Clearly not. So then, why would we expect them to the other details? To Marriage-night consummation, to monogamy, to headship and submission, etc.? Finally, If someone claims to be christian and also be gay, we can dialogue about why i disagree with them, and appeal to Christian sexual morality as a reason to change.. But if someone isn't a Christian, they don't need to be given the gift of heterosexuality, they just need Jesus. Let's not put the Cart before the horse.

  • @STRvideos

    @STRvideos

    8 күн бұрын

    These are some great thoughts. Thanks for sharing! Please consider calling in to the broadcast some Tuesday to discuss your thoughts with Greg. He is out for the summer, but would love to hear from you when he returns.

  • @kimsteinke713
    @kimsteinke7137 күн бұрын

    Everybody everybody knows what's going on with y'all in Texas.

  • @glstka5710
    @glstka57108 күн бұрын

    Morality is by nature restricting. Natural or unnatural, if you didn't desire to do something there would be no need to regulate it. Morality is all about what it is right to do about our desires.

  • @kimsteinke713
    @kimsteinke7137 күн бұрын

    I'm 64 and I was born gay and it doesn't matter what y'all want to believe persistent believing and twist to believe the reality is the gay people were created by God and that makes y'all wrong you'll need to deal with it the whole world's been watching in dismay in awe of sadness. 💙🙏😇

  • @STRvideos

    @STRvideos

    6 күн бұрын

    Sinful people (no matter the sin) are created by God. That does not mean our sins are permissible, right, or good.