What Is an Abomination to God?
Back to Perspectives | Inklings | Main FAQ Among Adventists, as well as other conservative Christians, we often meet the engrained conviction that “homosexual behavior” is the worst of sins and that God hates homosexuals. This conviction may have originated in the “abomination” texts, assuming these to indicate that same-gender sex is a worse sin than heterosexual sex in the same context. But is this really what the Bible says? I believe that a careful study of the texts will yield quite different conclusions.* So please join me in an investigation of the matter. Sexual sins of any kind are considered “abominations” to the Lord. See Leviticus 18: 18 – 30, paying particular attention to verses 27 – 30, which refer to “all these abominations” — after various kinds of sexual activities apart from marriage have been mentioned. A similar list is repeated in Leviticus 20, concluding that God’s people ought not to do these things “after the manner of the nations which I cast out before you.”
