What is an abomination?


An abomination is something that causes hate or disgust. In biblical usage, an abomination is something that God loathes or hates because it is offensive to Him and His character.

The Hebrew words translated “abomination” are often used in association with things like idolatry and false gods (Deuteronomy 17:2–5; 27:15; 29:17; Isaiah 66:3; Jeremiah 32:34; Ezekiel 5:9; 11:18; Hosea 9:10). In 1 Kings 11:5, the god Molech is called “the abomination of the Ammonites” (ESV). The NIV translates it as “the detestable god of the Ammonites.” The point is that God hates the falsehood, impurity, and wickedness of these pagan gods.

Occult practices are also called an abomination in Scripture, as is child sacrifice (Deuteronomy 18:9–12; 20:18; 2 Chronicles 28:3). Other abominations in God’s sight are ungodly sexual relationships like homosexuality and adultery (Leviticus 18:22–29; 20:13; Deuteronomy 24:4), cross-dressing (Deuteronomy 22:5), imperfect sacrifices (Deuteronomy 17:1), dishonest business dealings (Deuteronomy 25:13–16; Proverbs 11:1; 20:10, 23), wickedness (Proverbs 15:9, 26), injustice (Proverbs 17:15), turning a deaf ear to God’s instruction (Proverbs 28:9), and hypocritical offerings from the unrepentant (Proverbs 15:8; Isaiah 1:13). Most of the references to that which is abominable or detestable come in God’s Law in Leviticus and Deuteronomy, in prophecies declaring God’s judgment against Israel, and in Proverbs.

Proverbs 6 contains a list of seven things that God calls an abomination: “There are six things that the Lord hates, seven that are an abomination to him: haughty eyes, a lying tongue, and hands that shed innocent blood, a heart that devises wicked plans, feet that make haste to run to evil, a false witness who breathes out lies, and one who sows discord among brothers” (Proverbs 6:16–19, ESV).

In Luke 16:15 Jesus tells the Pharisees, “What is exalted among men is an abomination in the sight of God” (ESV). The context of Jesus’ statement is a rebuke of the Pharisees’ love of money. He had just been teaching that a person cannot serve two masters and that serving God and serving money are mutually exclusive (verses 13–14). The Pharisees responded with ridicule, showing the blindness of a heart that revels in what God calls an abomination.

Titus 1:16 says that false teachers may “claim to know God, but by their actions they deny him. They are detestable, disobedient and unfit for doing anything good.” Jesus and Daniel both predicted the abomination of desolation that would corrupt the holy place of the temple (Matthew 24:15; Daniel 9:27). Also related to the end times, the whore of Babylon is pictured as holding “a golden cup in her hand, filled with abominable things and the filth of her adulteries” (Revelation 17:4). She is said to be the mother of all the abominations on earth (Revelation 17:5) and identified as “the great city that rules over the kings of the earth” (verse 18). This city with all of its loathsome acts will be destroyed (verses 16–17).

From idolatry to unfair scales to ungodly sexual relationships to wickedness of various kinds, abominations separate people from God. Really, all sin (missing the mark of God’s perfection) can be considered an abomination. All sin separates us from God and is detestable to Him (Romans 3:23; 6:23; Proverbs 15:9). God’s hatred of sin makes Christ’s sacrifice on the cross all the more remarkable. It was at the cross that “God made him who had no sin to be sin for us, so that in him we might become the righteousness of God” (2 Corinthians 5:21). As He suffered and died for our sin, Jesus could identify with the psalmist: “I am a worm and not a man, scorned by everyone, despised by the people” (Psalm 22:6). Jesus took our abominations upon Himself and gave us the gift of His righteousness in return. All who put their trust in Him will be saved.








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Well, side-stepping the claptrap, in Yemen it's the USA/UK, in Gaza it's Israel and in Ukraine it's Russia.

God IS just an excuse for weak people. Liké communisme and islamism

There is nothing Weak about Almighty God Jehovah.
Only weak Men are Non Believers.

The supporting evidence is weak, in fact it's non-existent.

The Word of God is always Truth.

Those who are Non-Believers or Atheist cannot understand Truth. You have to except the existence of God to know who HE is.

Living in darkness comes from rejecting Truth.

Examples of abomination from the Qur’an:
(1) And marry not those women whom your fathers married, except what hath already happened (of that nature) in the past. Lo! it was ever lewdness and abomination, and an evil way.
(2) Forbidden unto you (for food) are carrion and blood and swineflesh, and that which hath been dedicated unto any other than Allah, and the strangled, and the dead through beating, and the dead through falling from a height, and that which hath been killed by (the goring of) horns, and the devoured of wild beasts, saving that which ye make lawful (by the death-stroke), and that which hath been immolated unto idols. This is an abomination.
(3) And eat not of that whereon Allah's name hath not been mentioned, for lo! it is abomination.
(4) And Lot! (Remember) when he said unto his folk: Will ye commit abomination such as no creature ever did before you?
(5) For come ye not in unto males, and cut ye not the road (for travellers), and commit ye not abomination in your meetings?
(6) Allah enjoineth justice and kindness, and giving to kinsfolk, and forbiddeth lewdness and abomination and wickedness.
(7) And come not near unto adultery. it is an abomination and an evil way.

In the Bible, all violence is considered an offence against God and against humanity. Scripture is full of condemnations of violence – time and again violence is associated with wickedness and condemned as “detestable to the Lord” (Psalm 11, Proverbs 3 & 10). In particular, violence against women is condemned.
In Leviticus 18:21, 20:3 and Deuteronomy 12:30–31, 18:10, the Torah contains a number of imprecations against and laws forbidding child sacrifice and human sacrifice in general.
About 15,000 Palestinians were killed in a series of mass atrocities, including dozens of massacres. On April 9, 1948, Zionist forces committed one of the most infamous massacres of the war in the village of Deir Yassin on the western outskirts of Jerusalem.

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2022/5/15/nakba-mapping-palestinian-villages-destroyed-by-israel-in-1948#:~:text=Mapping%20the%20Palestinian%20villages%20Israel%20destroyed&text=About%2015%2C000%20Palestinians%20were%20killed,the%20western%20outskirts%20of%20Jerusalem.

Israel has killed 8,800 children alongside 6,300 women since the offensive on Gaza started Oct.

https://www.aa.com.tr/en/middle-east/israeli-army-has-killed-8-800-palestinian-children-in-82-days-gaza-media-office/3094121#:~:text=Israel%20has%20killed%208%2C800%20children,offensive%20on%20Gaza%20started%20Oct.

Quran is one of false doctrine religions.

Hi Toodygirl5
You deny the word of God - the Qur’an - and you have no evidence for that. This puts you in front of a difficult reckoning on the Day of Resurrection and you will enter Hell. What would you say in that case? You will say, “My Lord, bring me back to life so that I may do good deeds.” The Lord will say to the angels: Take her to the torment of the blazing fire in hell.
Revelation 20:12: And I saw the dead, small and great, stand before God; and the books were opened: and another book was opened, which is the book of life: and the dead were judged out of those things which were written in the books, according to their works.

I ways taught that the Bible was the word of God and I know Revelation is the last book of it.

Only Jesus Christ will Judge at Judgement day.

If you Believe different that's your own Personal Choice. I have notice your remarks on topics here.

You have no where to put me in Eternity.
Quran is False teaching , HOLY Bible is the proof. Try reading it.

Toodygirl5 he seems to quote both books so he’s read both. To me the Quran is what Muslims read and they believe Jesus is a prophet while the Holy Bible says he’s the Son of God and you’re write that only Jesus can judge.

Julie

You are Right !

Then some men can read the Bible but still believe the Quran.

Quran is False doctrine.

I know Muslims friends and I Pray for them.

All prophets must be respected and revered
But some people insult other religions. I believe that the main reason is the presence of distorted verses in the Torah and the Gospel, which gave some people a wrong perception. The second reason is that political parties deliberately spread ideas against religions, especially the role of Zionism in insulting Islam.
We notice in the following verses a clear violation of the behavior of the prophets:
Genesis [9:20]:
Noah, was the first to plant a vineyard. He drank some of the wine and became drunk, and he lay uncovered in his tent. And Ham, saw the nakedness of his father, and told his two brothers outside. Then Shem and Japheth took a garment, and covered the nakedness of their father; their faces were turned away, and they did not see their father’s nakedness.
Genesis; 19: 30-36
And Lot went up out of Zoar, and dwelt in a cave, he and his two daughters. 31 And the firstborn said unto the younger: 32 Come, let us make our father drink wine, and we will lie with him, that we may preserve seed of our father. 33 And they made their father drink wine that night: and the firstborn lay with her father. 34 And the firstborn said unto the younger, Behold, I lay yesternight with my father: let us make him drink wine this night also; and go thou in, and lie with him. 35 they made their father drink wine that night also: and the younger lay with him. 36 Thus were both the daughters of Lot with child by their father.
The Second Book of Samuel [11:2].
2 David arose from off his bed, and walked upon the roof of the king’s house: and he saw a woman washing herself; and the woman was very beautiful. 3 And David sent and inquired after the woman. And one said, Is not this Bath-sheba, the daughter of Eliam, the wife of Uriah the Hittite? 4 And David sent messengers, and took her; and she came in unto him, and he lay with her; and she returned unto her house.
5 And the woman conceived, and told David, and said, I am with child.
First Book of Kings [11]
King Solomon, however, loved many foreign women besides Pharaoh’s daughter—Moabites, Ammonites, Edomites, Sidonians and Hittites. 2 They were from nations about which the LORD had told the Israelites, “You must not intermarry with them, because they will surely turn your hearts after their gods.” Nevertheless, Solomon held fast to them in love. 3 He had seven hundred wives of royal birth and three hundred concubines, and his wives led him astray. 6 So Solomon did evil in the eyes of the LORD; he did not follow the LORD completely, as David his father had done.
The Book of Hosea [1:2]
When the LORD began to speak through Hosea, the LORD said to him, “Go, marry a promiscuous woman and have children with her, for like an adulterous wife this land is guilty of unfaithfulness to the LORD.” 3 So he married Gomer daughter of Diblaim, and she conceived and bore him a son.
The Book of Exodus [32:2].
When the people saw that Moses was so long in coming down from the mountain, they gathered around Aaron and said, “Come, make us gods who will go before us.” 2 Aaron answered them, “Take off the gold earrings that your wives, your sons and your daughters are wearing, and bring them to me.” 4 He took what they handed him and made it into an idol cast in the shape of a calf, fashioning it with a tool. Then they said, “These are your gods Israel, who brought you up out of Egypt.”
Deuteronomy [32: 48, 52]:
48 On that same day the LORD told Moses, 49 “Go up into the Abarim Range to Mount Nebo in Moab, and view Canaan, the land I am giving the Israelites as their own possession. 50 There on the mountain that you have climbed you will die and be gathered to your people, just as your brother Aaron died on Mount Hor and was gathered to his people. 51 This is because both of you broke faith with me in the presence of the Israelites at the waters of Meribah Kadesh in the Desert of Zin and because you did not uphold my holiness among the Israelites. 52 Therefore, you will not enter the land I am giving to the people of Israel.”
The Book of Isaiah 20:2
the LORD spoke through Isaiah son of Amoz. He said to him, “Take off the sackcloth from your body and the sandals from your feet.” And he did so, going around stripped and barefoot.
Objection to the validity of these verses
Prophets are believers and they are the only people most capable of resisting Satan and adhering to the teachings of the Lord.
Jesus used to say:
Matthew, chapter 5:13
“You are the salt of the earth, but if salt has lost its taste, how shall its saltiness be restored? It is no longer good for anything except to be thrown out and trampled under people’s feet.’’
This means:
As salt preserves meat from rotting, believers in Jesus, help to preserve humanity from falling into godlessness, immorality, chaos, and the resulting judgment.
These teachings are for all people, so how could prophets commit flagrant violations of the Lord’s teachings?
This means that whoever wrote the Bible distorted it. Many studies point to this distortion, including:

https://file.scirp.org/Html/8-1650387_48549.htm

This paper argues that there are at least five reasons why the claim that the Bible is to be taken literally defies logic or otherwise makes no sense, and why literalists are in no position to claim that they have the only correct view of biblical teachings.

Richard Friedman argues in his book; Who Wrote the Bible? that Ezra is the one who redacted the Torah, and in fact effectively produced the first Torah.

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/102104.Who_Wrote_the_Bible_

Go read and study the Holy Bible and seek Christ for deliverance and be Enlighten to Truth ! Get your mind out of the Quran.

Lung

Bible is unreliable
Jacob Shelton wrote; Turns Out The Original Bible Is Drastically Different From The Version You Grew Up With
To find changes in Bible verses, one simply has to find some of the most popular sections (the Ten Commandments, the immaculate birth, etc.) and compare one Bible to a different version. It’s likely that you’ll notice something different. The biggest Bible changes happen when a church branches off from its parent and tries to set out with its own identity. Jehovah’s Witnesses and the Church of Latter Day Saints, for example, have managed to add their own bible histories to the mix, making things significantly murkier than they already were.

https://www.ranker.com/list/has-the-bible-changed/jacob-shelton

Jehovah God is the only True and living God, He
Who was in the beginning and always will be.
God inspired Men to write the Bible by the power of the Holy Spirit.
Seek God in Prayer for the Truth.

Denominations are Man made. Men created different Denominations. Salvation does not come from being in any certain Denomination.

Jesus Christ died on the Cross for the sins of all Mankind, when we put our Faith in Him alone.

Jesus suffered, died on the cross then He rose again by the Power of God.
Jesus is in Heaven now with God.
Jesus is the son of God. All power is in His hands for the judgement of Mankind.


Message of the Cross is
Jesus and Him Crucified.

Without FAITH it is impossible to Please God, you must believe that He exist and He is a rewarder of them who diligently seek Him.

Sin came about after the Fall of Adam and Eve.

God had a plan to reconcile Mankind to God.

That plan was through His son Jesus Christ.