Proverbs 6:16–19
The Bible4Jesus.com Podcast
About this episode
Our culture, and sadly, much of the church, has refashioned God into a celestial grandfather whose chief attribute is a sort of benign, indiscriminate tolerance. He would never be so severe as to hate anything. But a god who hates nothing is a god who loves nothing. Love and hatred are not opposites; they are two sides of the same coin. The God of the Bible is a God of intense, passionate, and holy affections. This is not a petty dislike, like a man who dislikes broccoli. This is the revulsion of a holy Creator against that which deforms and destroys His good creation. An abomination is something that is ritually and morally repugnant, something that pollutes, that defiles, that corrupts. And here in Proverbs, the Spirit of God gives us a catalog, a divine list of seven such things.