Do you think you are more deserving of heaven than your gay neighbor?

I saw the cartoon on the right on the Internet today and thought I would comment on it.

if you did a survey of visitors to any theologically conservative website like monergism.com and asked them "Do you think you are more deserving of heaven than your gay neighbor?" I am willing to wager that 95 out of every 100 Christian persons surveyed would emphatically say no they are not more deserving ... not even close.

Why would they say this? Because it is politically correct? No. Because it is Christianity 101. No one who understands even the very basics of Christianity thinks they are more deserving of heaven than anyone else because if they did they they do not even remotely understand the gospel. In fact the entire Christian community would consider such a view to be outside the realm of Christian orthodoxy:

"....do not say to yourself, “The Lord has brought me here to take possession of this land because of my righteousness.” No, it is on account of the wickedness of these nations that the Lord is going to drive them out before you. It is not because of your righteousness or your integrity that you are going in to take possession of their land; but on account of the wickedness of these nations, the Lord your God will drive them out before you, to accomplish what he swore to your fathers, to Abraham, Isaac and Jacob. Understand, then, that it is not because of your righteousness that the Lord your God is giving you this good land to possess, for you are a stiff-necked people." Deut 9:4-6

Did you notice the Lord repeated it three times?

In the end, moralism is just a damning as libertinism, if not more. When we beheld the beauty and glory of God in all his holiness, we could only cover their mouth and declare with the rest: “Woe to me!, I am ruined! For I am a man of unclean lips, and I live among a people of unclean lips, and my eyes have seen the King, the Lord Almighty.” Isaiah 6:5

My question is why they had to draw a cartoon and not take an actual picture of Christians doing the same thing. Because such a picture is largely non-existent. They could likely only find some small obscure marginalized church like Westboro, which obviously does not represent any type of theologically conservative Christianity.

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