Sin versus Abomination

Have you ever realized that whereas sin seeks concealment, rebellion seeks attention?

As I was going through the book of Judges this came out very clearly, even when we link it to the destruction of Sodom. Remember the precursor to the Benjamite war?

I have never seen anybody demonstrating to be allowed to sleep with their neighbor’s spouse. I have never seen a thief proudly demonstrating prowess in his art, whether in the pickpocketing, armed robbery or seeking legal protections as part of their jobs.

Why then do we have homosexuals all over the world demonstrating and fighting to be protected by the law? Why do we have harlots advocating for their ‘rights’? Why do atheists fight to make their voices heard all over? And why do we not have adulterers doing the same?

The reason is the difference between the two.

Sin is a transgression against laid down rules, many times the product of a temptation. Though it may be pleasurable, it carries with it a tinge of shame and regret. Remember Adam and Eve hiding once they sinned?

Homosexuality is a rebellion, not only against God, but also against creation and everything it represents. It is a choice one must make long before they start practicing it. They must mull over it since they know it represents rebellion against everything they know as right.

Atheism involves making a decision to go against everything one has known and experienced about God. Again I must decide long before I confess that I stand for everything wrong.

Misery loves company. And nothing makes rebellion look good than its expansionist zeal.

They want to convince others that what they are unable to convince themselves is right is actually right as if denying the reality of gravity will do anything to annul it.

Why does the whole city ask Lot to give them his three visitors to sodomize? And why do they refuse to take his daughters instead?

Why does the city ask for the single priest to sodomize? And how does a whole city rape a single woman the whole night?

Have you ever witnessed hordes of men proudly flooding brothels? Do they not hide as they seek those services?

The difference between sin and abomination is as glaring as the one between day and night.

Though they are both sins, one is akin to shaking a fist against God and everything He represents, especially what He has so clearly said.

What causes a sober father disown his son?

It is not because the son has broken a rule, or even a tranche of sins. It is because the said son has blatantly taken sides against his father and everything he represents.

Reuben was disinherited because of that. Ishmael was chased away because of the same.

But I want us to appreciate the fact that abomination is not simply the act of sinning.

How does two siblings wittingly get married? How do you explain the fact that the nakedness of a sibling of the opposite gender does not produce the ‘excitement’ a stranger’s does?

How does a parent have sex with their own child?

That is so unnatural that it must require immense ‘encouragement’ to even think about it.

It is no wonder that they all seek to build their confidence in numbers because they know it is wrong. They know they have no argument against their rebellion.

Incidentally you will find the same in femininity. They know they are standing against God’s declaration about marriage and the place of the woman in it and so must shout it from the rooftops to gather a following.

Otherwise explain to me why there are no women in stable and fulfilling marriages in those forums. Why is it that it is women who are unable to get or keep a man at the forefront of those movements? Why do they not look at Proverbs 31 to see what exactly a woman needs to thrive?

And you see the same with divorce and remarriage. Why do they not seek the counsel of couples who have remained married for decades to guide them through that labyrinth?

Rebellion is a choice. And it is a choice against what God has revealed.

It therefore seeks to recreate a new narrative to make the rebellion acceptable by making so much noise to attempt to swamp God’s voice. Let me get us a verse.

Then they cried out with a loud voice, and stopped their ears, and ran upon him with one accord, (Acts 7:57)

These characters could not trust any one method to block Stephen’s witness. Just imagine that scenario?

Yet that is what abominations seek to do to counter truth.

That is why we have governments the world over fighting to legalize abortion and homosexuality. They want to buffer their rebellion with laws as if could ever make it right.

But there are only two choices; doing right or being wrong. Nothing can be done to convert one into the other, irrespective of the volume of the voices shouting otherwise.

Will you choose to be on the Lord’s side?