Christopher Yuan - A Christian Response to Homosexuality 

"God's unconditional love is not the same as unconditional approval of my behavior." Amen

"The ultimate issue is not whether I'm tempted or I'm struggling but whether I yearn after God."

So true. God absolutely loves each of us, and He does not love everything we do. I am so thankful that He loves me no matter what I do.

​@@cwp2614 Remember that the goal is rightrousness unto holiness. As the speaker said, Be holy as I am holy.

God's love is so unconditional. That He sent His Son to saved us from our sins.

Very thoughtful and caring

It's so weird that you need someone to tell you to be compassionate towards people who aren't doing anything wrong, towards you or in general. Who even taught you to lack compassion towards other people based on some aspects of their lives?

​@@ocvetkovic3130 Their parents. Their friends, their family, their influences. Not everyone is aware enough to question deep seated predispositions within their own lives.

@@sethgleason7611 it amazes me that they don't see it

@@ocvetkovic3130 listen to this video again.

Gays can't have sex. The DIGESTIVE TRACT does not qualify as sex. Only sex organs can engage in sex. You must have the union of male and female sex organs for sex. Gays use sex organs inside digestive tract. That by definition is not sex. THIS IS SODOMY

I've never listened to someone speak my own heart.....thank you God for showing me this 🥲.... I'm tired of trying to convince myself and others that a gay man can be ok with just Jesus...so eloquent and loving a video!

Yes 🫂💗🫂

You are loved. By Jesus and me, your Christian brother. I have never had this struggle but I have had my own, different struggles. You CAN have community, friends, and love (even if it isn't romantic). Love you and stay strong!!!

I spent 4 years in the struggle before getting a crush on the opposite gender, you got this. God restores and heals, and He can repurify your mind if you are willing to let Him go through the sometimes uncomfortable process on you.

Rosaria Butterfield (The Secret Thoughts of an Unlikely Convert) and Becket Cook have amazing, heartwarming stories as. All 3 of them on you tube are wonderful to listen to. God bless you.

Homosexuality comes from adults around a child,

@Museau Moustachu no Johns Hopkins and ot hers say no one is born this way

@Museau Moustachu so how come people revert if born a homosexual,this would be impossible,on RU-vid there a lot who have

@@berniefynn6623 ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-oRVREnnKMPQ.html There is a lot of gay people that are forced to pretend they are straight There is a lot of bi people who were in a gay couple and then broke up and remarry with an opposite-sex partner There is a lot of straight people that came through a questionning phase and then find out they are straight All these people are considered as "ex-gays" But none of them are

Just support and love your child. Homosexuality is not a sin. We pick and choose what we wish to be sin. The Bible was used to support slavery of African Americans as well, did the Bible change? No our interpretation of the text changed. This has been happening since the Inception of the Bible.

I was wondering if anyone else noticed the irony.

God's timing is AMAZING!

I noticed that too.

You must "go back" to the place you fell, & repent.

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What I mean is this man sharing his message deserves to be listened to sharing the word in truth

Nobody listens to people who write like this. Fix yourself.

Amen, He's still in control and loves us all.

I believe you are absolutely right. If God has forbidden homosexuality then we should not take any part in anything.that recognises, affirms or celebrates it. We HAVE to put God first even if we are rejected, judged, misunderstood, or despised for our obedience. Jesus was despised and rejected. We must not do anything that says that sin is ok or doesn't matter. That's encouraging people in their sin and deception. That isn't right and it isn't loving. "Woe to those who call good evil or evil good." (Isaiah 5 vs. 20).

@@sarahlaslett3279 ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-5iXA_0MED98.html

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You still love him? Tell him so

The “snarky comments” come from the fact that you believe that his love, the thing he cherishes more than anything in life, is sinful inherently. If my parents thought my nature was sinful dispite the fact that every mammal on the planet has shown homosexual behavior and a complete lack of evidence showing it is harmful I might make some jokes to lighten the situation too. You are luck he even talks to you

I agree with you 100% Marie Jackson 😄

That is right. Those who love homosexuality hates Jesus.

I believe you. I wonder what you think though about how dr yuan phrased things because i often think using " to be" isn't correct. It makes something ones identity when it could be seen as a temptation... and maybe make it easier to love oneself?

I also wonder about hormones because i did chemo

And it made chastity much easier

I went through something similar, raised in a two parent household with a straight older brother and we all went to church regularly. For YEARS I hated being gay and tried to pray it away because I was taught it was this horrible thing that god hated me for it, but no matter what I did it wouldn’t go away, it was just how I have always been. but as an adult I function just like anyone else would.

We don't choose our temptations, we choose our reactions: Whether we will resist temptation or succumb to it. You aren't alone. We all face temptations, but God does provide a way of escape. It is impossible to fight temptation by our selves.

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And he knows that too but is willing to use his being bisexual to discredit fully homosexual people to gain acceptance by his heterosexual colleagues

@Museau Moustachu no they often make it their whole identity because of other people

You already did make it an identity by using the statement "I am". You can say I have same sex attraction.

100%

It's 2024 everyone's identity is what they lead with now. To be same sex attracted isn't even enough now. You must be multi gendered, no gendered queen bi pansexual poly amorous etc. Your sexuality is your social currency now.

Lesbian and gay you mean

Perfect dad? Why didn't he just throw out the snake and put a big fence around the tree. Easy. When your kid falls off the stairs you don't blame the kid, you blame yourself for not putting a little lockable gate there.

Eve and Adam were not kids. They were given instructions and free will to choose. Is the absence of temptations make God perfect?

@@DoubleYumDoubleHappiness They had zero life experience which essentially makes them kids in adult bodies. Knowledge requires time to amass. Comparing your 30 year old self to your 20 year old self should illustrate this point sufficiently. Then think of being a 6 month old in an adults body.. So yeah, I kinda screwed up there. But the cool thing about being god is getting to define morality! I guess that makes it subjective but I'm cool with that if it means I get to perpetually shift the blame!

@@DoubleYumDoubleHappiness how were they supposed to know right from wrong when they didn't eat the fruit of knowledge? Only after they ate it could they differentiante that listening to god is "good" and not listening is "bad". God gave two weak, curios and clueless humans 0 knowledge, an impossible task of resisting something very tempting, let the devil into eden and then punished them for failing to listen to something they couldn't have known they absolutely had to to listen to. That makes 0 fucking sense

@@Maksie0 If God didn’t place the tree in the garden and allow the snake (the devil) in the garden, then Adam and Eve would have had no choice but to follow what God says. What God wanted was for Adam and Eve to choose to love and listen to Him, not be forced into it. But Adam and Eve, like all of us, chose not to listen to God and disobey Him. This had consequences. Like a child who is repeatedly told not to go to the top of the stairs without assistance, but does it anyway, it’s the child’s fault for not listening to good advice. This of course does not apply when the child doesn’t comprehend what they are being told. It would be then down to the parent to properly protect their child. With Adam and Eve, they wouldn’t have been only a few months old. They were created as adults with adult brains and adult comprehension. When reading the creation story in Genesis, it is also highly likely that they would have lived many years in the garden of Eden before eating from the one tree God told them not to.

Freudism is nothing to the Christian faith. Jesus know about human psychology because He read our hearts and cure our mental depression.

Even the religious folks and righteous, too.

Imagine a child with 2 mommies or 2 daddies? It will be strange!

​@@jacobtennyson9213i have two daddy I love them

​@@jacobtennyson9213strange to you

@@YorkYolk .. Then where is your mommy? One of you two dad's can't make babies.

@@jacobtennyson9213 No I am adopted by two dads

I don’t think you’re going to sell many gay people on the wonders of singleness, especially if it means they can never be in a romantic relationship and experience intimacy with another human.

@@levkamenev3904 There are lots of heterosexual people are who are single and don't experience romantic relationships or have intimacy with another human so I don't understand your comment.

@@sallybyrd3712 because they are trying to sell it across the board to gay people because they believe being in an gay relationship is bad, but the number of people who want to live a celibate life are very few.

@@sallybyrd3712 also, I would not say that there are lots of straight Christians who are single because they want to be. From my experience that’s a very small minority of single Christians. Most are single because they just haven’t met the right person.

@@levkamenev3904 I don't like the label straight christian; we are just christian period and should not add extra labels. If you watch Becket Cooke he discusses this topic of labels. However, I have met a lot of people who have chosen to be straight singles after having failed marriages. The fantasy of romantic relationships wears off and one realizes that they like the peace and quiet and stability of the single life. Many straight people say "never again" to chaotic relationships but you may not have met them. But yes, there are people who never give up on the futile fantasy; they are constantly meeting new people on dating sites; it becomes an addiction. They are like hamsters on a wheel.

Then you are a bigot. Plain and simple. Religion doesn't excuse it.

Its not a choice

What's not a choice? Every day, we are forced to confront the big question. How much of our behavior is programed, and what can we really control? True, our tendencies to be or think about being gay may be innate, just as are our tendencies to chase women or gamble, or to get drunk. But to imply that you're helpless to stop abusing pets or children and just can't help cheating on your taxes strikes most of us as hollow. The lies we tell ourselves are the most destructive.@@YorkYolk

@@kevinrussell1144 no way you compared attraction to crimes

@@kevinrussell1144 innate is not a choice

Jesus said if you're attracted to wickedness and think about it, you have as much as committed it. That's why we are all sinners. But you don't HAVE to do those evil things. Last time I checked, being gay is NOT a crime. Being attracted to children AND acting on it IS.@@YorkYolk

It is not a "lifestyle". She is just being who she is, which may be gay or bisexual. God doesn't care.

@@CS-oy7qp I’m always confused as to why they refer to it as “the homosexual lifestyle” or “those who struggle with same sex attraction”. I wish they would just say gay like everyone else.

May the Lord restore your marriage. Keep praying for her

@@CS-oy7qp God does care. Did you actually listen to this testimony? God cares deeply, because he wants you to live your best life. Those relationships and this twisting of His teachings and perfect plans are not what is best for us.

She is gay. Leave her alone, let her be happy with a woman

God doesn’t care what you are what he cares about is repentance of sins and changing your life. If Jesus can be beaten and crucified than you can choose celibacy and live the way he wants.

Listen to me, god loves you. Whoeverso will may come. And whosoever will, let him take the water of life freely. People have used the Bible as a way to spread hate and hurt for thousands of years. It has been rewritten and retranslated numerous times. The word “HOMOSEXUAL” wasn’t even added into the Bible until 1947. It’s full of HUMAN biases. Pray, worship and give your life to Jesus and tell me you don’t feel the overwhelming love of god surrounding you.

@@BigdaddiZ I really want to believe you, but it isnt true. My compassion and love for everyone remains, but I must follow the bible. Sorry.

Feelings won’t guide you, dear friend. Only scripture.

I also pray about my sexuality like for guidance towards the right thing that Gods wants for me and sometimes (I’m a girl) my feelings toward girls feels sooo much stronger than other days and sometimes I’m like is this even right and then I will think about a boy and then I’m just like but this isn’t what I want

Same

Bless. What blows me away about his testimony is his arrogance. His singular experience of greed, hedonism, selfishness and narcissm is held up as the gay lifestyle. BS. I work with heaps of cool, enlightened gays with very spiritually grounded lives. This dude may well have contributed to his pawns drug habits and even potential death due to getting hiv from him. He closes by saying: you are dismissed. His arrogance repulses me

@@MJ-qb5ph is it really “his arrogance” that offends you, because I work 40hr weeks with psychiatrists and psychologists, and I don’t hear the perceived arrogance in Mr Yuan’s talk.

Grateful you left but here you are watching people talk about the gospel and redemption. Thats like me watching videos on how to grow great Cannabis strains.

A good example of Romans 1. That’s your prerogative and Free Will.

@King James obviously Adam and Eve were straight because they were literally the only two people on earth, if the point was to make babies then yeah that’s what they would have to do. But now that there’s more than two people why would god have a problem with it? It literally isn’t effecting anyone.

@King James Did you not learn about practicing safe sex in school? Because gay sex is perfectly safe when performed correctly. And as far as the aids epidemic, straight people can get aids just as easily as gay people so I really wish y’all would stop spreading misinformation.

@King James Gay sex happens all the time in nature, literally just watch a nature documentary or go outside, you can see it happen all the time. The problem is these man made religions declared gay sex as immoral because it doesn’t result in giving birth to children as if that’s the only reason people have sex.

@ shènɡ jīnɡ AMEN I agree with you.

@@ii954 After their punishment, God made Adam and Eve married with each other. Yes truly this is a establishment of man-woman marriage but it's by their punishment. But the committed marriage between a man a and woman has been established with traditional taboos whether it's good or bad in the eyes of God. But what will never accept is same sex marriages or any immoral adulterous sexual relationships. When He, Jesus and Holy Ghost went to Sodom and Gommorah to rescue Lot, they saw people practice homosexuality, bestiality. The people of Sodom saw these three angels, they want to RAPE them all! So three angels blinded, them told Lot to leave the two wicked cities for they will destroyed it with fire and brimstone. This lead to to time of Moses after God released the Israelites from Egypt, gave the Ten Commandments and one of commandments saying 'Thou shalt not commit adultery.' Even the New Testament Gospels when Jesus gave His sermon on the mount called the 'Beatitudes.' He did said the 'Thou shalt not commit adultery.' And He gave an example that 'If any man looks into a woman with lust had already committed adultery in his heart.' This action also symbolic that sexually immorality is not just adultery, its with anyone committed any lustful actions with any person whether it's any child, adult or even an animal. Yes God created sex, but He sets moral standards to every creature not to use sex as immoral practice of power, but to promote balance between a male and female relationship by committed union and that male and female martial relationship can have sex to each other. Any violations can lead to serious consequences to your life and body and your relationship with your martial partner and with Jesus Christ. So the practice of same sex marriages, changing your sexual nature remains to this day an abomination in the eyes of God. And I hope all nations of the Earth should practice sex in God's Way.

completely agree with you. i used to think like he did, and all it gave me was self hatred and misery

@@Ash-jl9wd I believe it. I hope you’re doing well now. It can be a challenge to find the right spiritual environment as an LGBTQ person, but it’s definitely possible.

Yes

@@Kattchatt just because he says that doesn't mean he's right. Once you step outside of that church door, you're no longer exempt from the law and have to be open and accepting of the LGBT community. Don't call yourself a patriot otherwise.

True marriage, as defined by Jesus is a man/woman relationship for life no other option exists

@@cathyhamlin3611 Jesus isn't president and doesn't create the laws of the land, so stop using faith to say that marriage MUST be this way. Your justification of faith for everything is DISGUSTING! Live in the real world and stop living in your fantasy. Accept LGBT for who they are and stop pushing your fascist agenda on them.

@@cathyhamlin3611 The bible also believes in slavery yet says "love thy neighbor" etc. It contradicts itself all the time. Y'all just pick and choose what to believe. Do everyone a favor and stay out of politics if this is your line of thinking.

Seek to know God and to have a relationship with him! That’s why he created us. Read the Bible and talk to him and practice faith in everything. Not easy but also so awesome. Look at all he has for you instead of all the things you "can’t" do. In him is so much peace, love, joy. He forgives you if you mess up, he helps you to do what’s right. Lean on him like you like depends on it

This might be a little harsh but maybe that’s the point, god mad you that way because you thought that love was everything and he wants you to focus on him. Just because you are struggling with any kind of sexual sin like masturbation or homosexuality doesn’t mean that you won’t be happy

@@ezekielcoronado700 It seems like if you are forced to be single when you don’t want to be, it’s unlikely you’re going to be particularly happy.

@@ezekielcoronado700 No moral being would subject another to a life without love.

@@fellowish You are 100% right in this. To subject someone else to a life without love would not be moral. What God does though is offer His love to all people - this initially may seem strange, but as you grow your relationship with God, the more you'll realise that His love is all sufficient. If you don't understand, this is why: 1 Corinthians 2:14

God did in the old testament (Jesus is God). Paul did in the new testament. And Jesus did affirm the covenanted union of MAN and WOMAN as the only normative expression of human sexuality in Matthew 19 and Mark 10.

@@ethanweber7976 the Old Testament is the book followed by the Jews. As a devout Jew, Jesus would have followed the customs. I am Christian. I follow his word. He never said anything about gays.

@@Btx931 First, which is it? Does Jesus follow the old testament or not? Again the entirety of Scripture is the word of God. Jesus IS God. He is eternally existent and inspired Leviticus and was involved in the judgement of Sodom and Gomorrah. It sounds as if you are throwing out the old testament as a reliable source of knowledge and instruction. Second, Paul DID address homosexuality in the new testament. Third, your argument is an "argument from silence" argument. This is a fallacy. I also disagree that Jesus did not address sex and marriage. Again I point you to the two chapters that I listed in my original comment. Jesus references the law repeatedly and ,in the two chapters I listed, references God's original design of one man and one woman.

@@Btx931This is because it was never a problem back when he was around, The norm was Male and Female, if you were to be gay during this time, everyone would be super confused

@@Spaku1 the Romans had same gender lovers. Jesus knew it and never said anything about it.

Aren't eunuchs single, as in, they live without a sexual partner?

​@@User_Happy35 Scripture must be read in context and the historical cultural settings should be considered to receive the entire meaning. These words were given in response to the question: which men should not marry women. First, there are those who have made themselves eunuchs for the kingdom of heaven, i.e., those who foreswear marriage to better serve God. Second, he mentions those who have been made eunuchs by others, an apparent reference to castrated males. But Jesus mentions a third category eunuchs who were "born that way". This term "natural or born eunuchs " in ancient Jewish culture (as reflected in the Talmud), were not associated with missing testicles. Rather, they were associated with people with gay tendencies. It should be obvious that this category of male eunuchs should not marry woman, as they are gay. Furthermore, Jesus was very specific... "let him who is without sin cast the first stone." As none as are free from sin, none of us should be passing judgement onto others. Anyone who is condemning homosexuality is in fact going against the teachings of Christ.

@@jean-pauldebeer8151 There is only one, valid expression of sexual contact between two people and that is between one man and one woman in matrimony. No matter how the latter-day intellectuals spin it, that is always what the church has preached with apostolic authority given by Jesus. The only reason this issue keeps popping up is because of that old problem that perpetually hits us all....rebellion. We don't want to be told that our sin is wrong. Unfortunately, you'll have any number of people, Christian or otherwise, that will "accept you where you are" and tell you that God "loves you unconditionally". These are phrases out of the New Age lexicon and have no basis in biblical truth.

@@atcoatco Luke 18:9-14 “Two men went up to the temple to pray, one a Pharisee and the other a tax collector. The Pharisee stood by himself and prayed: ‘God, I thank you that I am not like other people-robbers, evildoers, adulterers-or even like this tax collector. I fast twice a week and give a tenth of all I get.’ “But the tax collector stood at a distance. He would not even look up to heaven, but beat his breast and said, ‘God, have mercy on me, a sinner.’ “I tell you that the tax collector, rather than the other, went home justified before God." By your comment. Would you say that you resemble the Pharisee or the tax collector ?

@@jean-pauldebeer8151 Straw man, my friend. We are all miserable sinners; what makes us acceptable to the Lord, having been saved by grace, is our desire to rid ourselves of sin and obey Christ every day. It's not hard to work out what those things are. Sexual purity is a huge issue in this day and age and just about every sexual orientation is pushing to insist that their view of sexuality is allowed for, not because God allows for it in Scripture, but because these folks feel it's fair. A subjective sense of fairness has nothing to do with Truth. Again, the only God-given expression of sexual contact between two people is between a man and a woman in marriage. The church has always taught that and always will, modern "progressive" churches excepted.

Yes, only straight dudes like me have been a criminal and a drug dealer. Your next bit is just like your opinion, man; some kind of an amalgamation of Scripture and odd fringe evolution material. Like Mr. Yuan indicated with Romans 1:25 it seems you’re trading that truth pretty fast and loose. Don’t get stuck there, it’s easy to pick up, believe and recite the popular language from the New Downtown Church of What’s Happenin Now.

It is a sin you postmodernist and scripture revisionist.

@@fernandocuriel124 I don’t worship a book written by a man. I worship God. Homosexuality is a variation of sexuality , nothing more , nothing less. Christians try to turn it into something it’s not. Most people are right handed, some are left handed. It’s the same with sexuality.

@@adamcaul That’s an opinion too. A postmodern version.

@@adamcaul “Homosexuals are not criminals, they are not drug dealers.” That’s a straw man argument. He never said that. He was talking about his life.