What is Your Favorite Abomination?
 

We have been taught that there is sin, but an even more serious level of sin is an abomination. Assuming that all abomination are equal before God (no white-black) here is a list of abominations that I found:

1. a proud look
2. a lying tongue
3. murderers (hands that shed innocent blood)
4. wicked imaginations
5. mischievousness
6. a false witness
7. one that sows discord among brethren
8. homosexuality
9. One who justifies the wicked
10. One who condemns the righteous
11. women who wear men's clothing
12. men who wear women's clothing
13. business people who skew the weights for measurement
14. holy sacrifice given by wicked people
15. a devious heart
16. one who won't listen to the law
17. arrogant people
18. bestiality
19. adulterers

These are all called abominations in the bible! We have a habit of glossing over the ones that we aren't passionate about, and focus on the one's we can use to judge others. With that in mind, which ones are your favorites? :icecream:icecream

Re: What is Your Favorite Abomination?
 

I would say that no abomination should be our favorite... the question is just... wrong!

:stirpot

Re: What is Your Favorite Abomination?
 

Snow crab.

Re: What is Your Favorite Abomination?
 

No, wait. Bacon!

I know that the question is provocative, but I want people to think about the abominations that are just as wrong as the ones that we use to judge others.

When we think of abominations, we put a lot of weight behind the sins of homosexuality, beastiality, false witness and women wearing men's pants, but almost ignore some of the others that hit closer to home! What about arrogance or a proud look? What about mischievousness or stirring discord among the brethren? Do we realize that those abominations are just a bad as the others?

Isn't it hypocritical to call out someone for homosexuality, yet arrogantly be causing discord among the brethren? Isn't it the pot calling the kettle black?

SS,

It is argued that an abomination and an abomination unto God are not the same thing.

That is why they continue to misapply Deut 22:5.

Lying is an abomination unto God. That one is rarely enforced.

Re: What is Your Favorite Abomination?
 

Beastiality is my favorite abomination to beat others over the head about.

Everyone agrees it is wrong and it is easy to declare how wrong it is without offending others!

Re: What is Your Favorite Abomination?
 

Our society is not so bad as to demand the right to sodomize Fluffy.

The more I think about it, the word "abomination" in the bible could be replaced with the modern word " despicable". Some on the list were culturally despicable at the time, some were sexually despicable, but most were morally and behaviorally despicable.

This is true, because we universally think of that behavior as despicable. We have no experience and don't love someone who has struggled with this. In other words, we have no emotional connection with this abomination! The ones on the list that might hit close to home, we just gloss over as if they don't exist! Ignore it and it doesn't exist.