Families|July 08, 2015 02:02 EDT
Evangelist Ray Comfort Says Homosexuals Were Born Gay; Claiming All People Have Sinful Nature But Some Choose to Give in [INTERVIEW]
BREATHEcast caught up with well-known evangelist Ray Comfort to talk about his new film 'Audacity' in which he confronts the delicate subject of homosexuality and Christianity.
The film is coming at an interesting time being that history was made this year with the Supreme Court ruling of same-sex marriage. Comfort's film serves as a perfect evangelism tool for Christians who want to peacefully share the truth of the Bible with the LGBTQ community.
Unlike the popular Christian argument that homosexuals were not born gay, Comfort takes a different approach with homosexuals in his new film which maintains that they are born that way. When asked to explain that statement further the New Zealand native clarified.
"Every one of us makes a choice to commit adultery, to fornicate, to look at pornography to lie and steal. In once sense we were born with it because we were born with a sinful nature. But as a choice we choose to sin," He said, "If we didn't choose to sin then God wouldn't hold us responsible and God considers along with adultery, fornication, lying and stealing, God considers homosexuality to be a sin."
Comfort continued, "That is a choice that comes through the sinful nature because we prefer our own pleasures rather then God's ways."
The popular street evangelist says there's a solution.
"The new birth changes everything. We are born with a sinful nature but when we're born again we're born with a nature that wants to please God and that's what we must push," Comfort advised.
In Comfort's many evangelism videos on YouTube he tackles controversial issues that many avoid but he believes that in order to combat the issue of sin people must really be born again.
"We can keep saying 'lets keep boycotting all these companies.' Well we're going to end up boycotting oxygen. The whole world has gone pro-gay!" he declared. Going on to say, "We could keep doing more petitions we could elect Godly men, but we have been doing that for the past 40 years."
Comfort does not believe that politics is the answer. "Politics merely shakes the branches; the gospel goes to the root of the tree. It transforms the human heart and that's what we want," he explained.
He sustained that the church has looked at things natural and temporal when they should looking at things "supernatural and eternal."
"We shouldn't be trying to clean up America. All we'll do is get it back to the way things were in the 1950s when you didn't lock your door and you didn't lock your cars and there was no violence in the streets as there is now, and it would still be under God's wrath for its sin," the Living Waters founder said, "What we want to do now is what they did in the book of Acts. Preach the gospel, because there is a judgment day and all of us need a savior, Hell is a reality."
The hope in a savior Comfort hopes will reach the soul of the homosexual beyond intellect. He trusts that a genuine conversion has the power to change a persons desire to sin.
"The train of the gospel is righteous. What happens when someone becomes a Christian is they don't commit adultery, they don't lie, they don't steal, they don't become homosexuals, they don't sin, they turn from sin perpetually because they've got a new heart and new desire," Comfort expounded, "So if we want to clean up America lets not put the cart before the horse. Let's put the gospel first. Seek first the kingdom of God and his righteousness and all these other things will be added to us."
'Audacity' serves as a conversation tool between Christians and the LGBTQ community. It did not come off as Bible thumping and insensitive but instead from the heart of someone who genuinely wants to share the truth of God's word with a community that has been singled out. The film is relevant and timely and was seemly made with the intention of raising awareness but also providing the simple solution of accepting a savior in Jesus Christ that can wash away all sins.
Read our BC review HERE.
If you are interested in watching the short film or finding out more information visit audacitymovie.com