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Here is what is indecent and wrong (and characteristically "Big Eva") about this article: https://www.thegospelcoalition.org/article/ballot-booth-not-your-baptism/

I would summarize the error of the article as:

He argues that conservatives are misrepresenting God's moral standards and also that they are holding a new standard of their own creation as being a salvific work.

Both claims are so ludicrous that he tries to avoid stating the claims outright and he avoids showing any cases of the thing he is arguing against.

For him to make all these errors, what probably happened is that he heard someone say, "If you're promoting Democrats, you're probably not saved," and then...

... because he has a weak reasoning ability, he tried to demolish that claim by hanging any possible error he could think of around conservatives' heads--without bothering to find out what we actually think.

In fact, publicly promoting an agenda that is obviously opposed to the standard of God in every way is an indication that a person is unaware of (or uninterested in) the very basics of Christian teaching, which amounts to strong evidence that they do not love Jesus (John 14:15).

If the author wanted to engage, he would have needed to engage with *those* claims.

If the author had his wits about him, or was an honest man (neither are true), it would have occurred to him that if he wants to reject the way that we use John 14:15, then he would also need to reject the way leftists try to use it, because leftists use it in the same way.

Conservatives and leftists agree that John 14:15 is at play, and we are disagreeing not over the principle that we as Christians should obey God, but over what the commands of God actually are.

The TGC guy stepped into the middle of an argument without even bothering to understand it, and he has made vaguely targeted, but false, dishonest, and insulting accusations against conservatives in such an inept way...

...that any Christian who has thought about the relationship between faith and works will know this poor man is either an antinomian, a moral relativist, or someone who is hopelessly theologically incompetent.

Or he could be a liar.

The most likely answer involves all four.