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What is an abomination to God?

May 22nd 2010

By: Inge Anderson

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A list of six “abominations”

These six things doth the LORD hate:
yea, seven are an abomination unto him:
A proud look, a lying tongue,
and hands that shed innocent blood,
An heart that deviseth wicked imaginations,
feet that be swift in running to mischief,
A false witness that speaketh lies,
and he that soweth discord among brethren.
~~ from Proverbs 6: 16 – 19

Who can claim innocence from all these “abominations”? Are all the sure dispensers of judgments on gay people free from a “proud look” or “false witness”? (Who can be sure that words repeated are absolutely true?) Or sowing discord in God’s congregation?

The simple term “wickedness” is equated with “abomination” in Proverbs 8:7. “Lying lips” are added to the list in Proverbs 12: 20 and a “proud heart” in Proverbs 16: 5. It seems then that pride and lies to further one’s own agenda are every bit as hateful to a holy God as are sexual sins.

Who then can stand before Him?

Those that justify the wicked or condemn the just, as well as scorners are listed as “abominations” in Proverbs 17: 15 and Proverbs 24:9.

Prayer is added to the list of “abominations,” if it comes from one who turns his ear from hearing the law in Proverbs 28:9. That becomes especially significant when we consider that all of God’s laws are summed up in the great principle of Love to God and to one’s neighbors and that Christ Himself demonstrated that Law in His life.

Are my prayers an “abomination”? Are yours?

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- Thom Hunter
  
  June 8th, 2010 at 17:01
  
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  Inge,
  
  I have certainly done things which God considers abominable. And I have been a victim of abominable things done by others. But me? I’m created in the image God and am the apple of his eye. And thankfully, even though I have been abominable in behavior at times and may be again, the hate that he holds for the abomination is not as great as the love He holds for the sinner, expressed through His grace and the gift of His only Son.
  
  I sure don’t intend to behave abominably, but I am so thankful that He forgives me and sets me back up. If I refuse to learn from the consequences, I guess I could find myself in a quicksand state of abomination, but it would not be because He did not provide a way out. It would be because I resisted.
  
  People in the church would do well to understand the application of the abomination word. We wirld it like a club, while we carry grace like a feather.
- Inge Anderson
  
  August 15th, 2010 at 16:07
  
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  Thanks for the comment, Thom.
  
  I like your reminder that we are each created in the image of God and are the apple of His eye. As Jesus reminds us, even the hairs of our head are numbered. Therefore no one whom God created is an “abomination.” But we may behave “abominably” — not just sexually, but in a number of different ways. The point of my essay was that an “abomination” is anything that God hates. And it is clear that God hates pride, among other things, which is a rather common human quality. But most people immediately think of sexual behavior when they think of the word “abomination.”
  
  Strange, how people can read so selectively, isn’t it?
- TS
  
  August 17th, 2010 at 23:59
  
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  I agree 100%, if we read the bible with an OPEN mind than we would really understand what God is trying to convey to us. I think personally, that those who will argue homosexuality is a sin are reading the bible with a close mind. I will bring up the Westboro Baptist they think homosexuality is so bad that they condemn the United States for supporting homosexuality, they protest at soldiers funerals with hate messages and lies about God, i don’t believe how CLOSED minded and ignorant they really are, the true message is that we all are equal in the eyes of God and that a gay man is no more guilty of sin than a hetersexual man, and the Lord loves us all infinetly. No matter of we are gay or straight.
- Inge Anderson
  
  August 21st, 2010 at 16:24
  
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  Oh, dear … do you know that the “Westboro Baptist Church” isn’t really a Baptist church? (Just thought I’d throw this in to prevent the Baptist church from being painted with the same brush. The “Westboro church” is really only one man and his family who obsess over homosexuality and feel quite free to act hateful and un-Christian in the name of Christianity.
  
  Again, whether or not homosexuality is a sin depends very much on how you define homosexuality. The condition of being homosexually or heterosexually oriented is essentially morally neutral. Heterosexuality can be sinful just as homosexuality can be sinful. That is, heterosexuals may sin sexually, and homosexuals may sin sexually. We need to be clear on God’s design for sexuality to understand what sexual behavior is sinful and what is according to God’s design.
  
  Being obedient won’t necessarily be easy. After all, Jesus said, “”If anyone would come after me, he must deny himself and take up his cross daily and follow me.” (Luke 9:23) Self-denial and cross bearing doesn’t sound like a whole lot of fun to me.
  
  On the other hand, this is what Jesus promised to all those who would accept his invitation to follow Him: ““These things I have spoken to you, that My joy may remain in you, and that your joy may be full.” (John 15:11) So it looks to me that the path to fullness of joy leads through self-denial — kinda the opposite of what the world teaches, isn’t it?
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