Years ago, I got into a discussion with a young man who was convinced the Bible did not prohibit homosexuality. He reasoned that that in passages such as Leviticus18:22 that describe the practice as an “abomination,” the Hebrew word “toebah,” which we know transliterate as taboo, is something only found wrong because it violates cultural norms. In other words, it was only said as wrong because it went against what was wrong for them. Since we no longer think that way, it’s not condemned.
There is a lot of
wrong thinking there. First, we can’t take a modern use and apply it to what was
said back then. Second, if we hold to that, we must apply it every time it is used.
And the term is used for activities that God is always clearly against, i.e.,
idolatry and child sacrifice. Third, the Bible condemns the practice with
various other terms and descriptions.
Yet maybe the
biggest flaw in that thinking is that if we become ok with something, then God
does. Mankind has an abysmal way of talking himself into approval of what God
finds abhorrent. We may lose our sense of shame, but God doesn’t.
"Were they ashamed
because of the abomination they have done? They were not even ashamed at all;
They did not even know how to blush. Jeremiah 6:15
The world may adapt its morality, but God
never does, as Proverbs 17:15 says He
who justifies the wicked and he who condemns the righteous, Both of them alike
are an abomination to the LORD.
Just because we
accept or not doesn’t matter. It is God who has the final say!
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