A few years ago, I was falsely accused of calling a person an "abomination" based on his reading of Hard Verses where I quoted what Moses said in Leviticus 20:13, were Moses uses the word abomination. The reader took my quoting of Moses' use of "abomination" about sinful behavior and equated it to mean I was calling him an abomination. I had only directly challenged his atheism before, but he searched my site, and found the article. Since the article identified the sinful behavior associated with his lifestyle, he was offended. He did what some do nowadays where they take any sort of challenge or disagreement as an attack, even framing it as hatred. Disagreement isn't hate even if it is stark disagreement over worldviews. It's disagreement. The article wasn't shoved in front of him. He looked for it and drew that invalid conclusion. Invalid? Yes, because, the bottom line is this: he is not an abomination. No human being is.
Looking at Leviticus 20:13, are the persons involved abominations or is it something else? If it's the persons involved, then I could see how the young man could say I implied he was an abomination, but I certainly didn't do that. I quoted Moses and Moses didn't do that, either. According to BibleHub's Leviticus 20:13 Hebrew Text Analysis the Hebrew phrase in the verse is: "an abomination have done both of them". It is the action, the sin that is the abomination, not the persons involved. Consider the use of "abomination" in the Scriptures:
So, we know what an abomination is. Generally speaking, it is sin -- yours, mine, and ours -- every person's sin. Our sins are abominations in view of a Holy God. He is Holy! When the woman was caught in sin, and threatened with being stoned to death, Jesus didn't condemn her, but did tell her to go and sin no more. Love the sinner. Hate the sin.
Your sins are an abomination. So are mine. You, however, are not an abomination. You are created in God's image as am I. See Genesis 9:6. People are to be treated with dignity, but this doesn't mean caudling, condoning or celebrating sin.
It hurts to have your sin challenged. Maybe it is a pattern. Maybe it feels ingrained in you. Yet, there is hope. You are still breathing. So, there is hope. Jesus loves you as you are but doesn't leave you as you are. He loves us too much to leave us as we are. We are poor, pitiful and blind without Him. We are destined for destruction without Him. Why would He leave us there? He offers hope. I heard one young man say that meeting Jesus doesn't change anything. That just tells me he hasn't yet met Jesus and had a relationship with Him. Jesus was the only sinless person and Jesus is God in the flesh. The rest of us are sinners in need of Him. Will you turn to Him, accept His love as you are and be open to what He has to not leave you where you are as He makes you more like Him? Countless millions have been changed by embracing Christ. I am one. Are you?
Matthew 9:20-22 (NIV) says the following:
Just then a woman who had been subject to bleeding for twelve years came up behind him and touched the edge of his cloak. She said to herself, "If I only touch his cloak, I will be healed."
Jesus turned and saw her. "Take heart, daughter," he said, "your faith has healed you." And the woman was healed at that moment.
Christ is available to you. Reach out in faith as the woman did and may your faith in Him heal you. We will struggle with committing sin throughout life this side of Heaven, though in sanctification and becoming Christlike, it will become more momentary lapses rather than a continual lifestyle or identity. Yet, you are not an abomination. The sin is. Repent. Cast it at the cross of Jesus Christ, trust the work He has done where we could not do it ourselves to remove the sin, and rise anew in Him.
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