Abominations

About this episode

Rushdoony discusses the biblical concept of abominations and their implications for understanding God's holiness and justice.

In “Abominations”, Rushdoony explains that Scripture’s strong language about sin reflects God’s holiness and justice, not vulgarity or excess, and that the biblical term abomination consistently denotes what God finds utterly abhorrent because it is idolatrous, lawless, and spiritually corrupt. Drawing on Hebrew and Greek usage, he shows that abominations are actions and attitudes that despise God’s law while often masquerading as faith—ranging from sexual immorality and idolatry to dishonest worship, lying, and false weights—revealing the unity of moral, spiritual, and physical corruption. What God calls an abomination is not culturally relative or emotionally offensive but objectively repulsive to Him, marked by filth, stench, and rebellion, and barred from His kingdom. Because God does not change, what He abhors must also be abhorrent to His people; therefore, encountering this word in Scripture is a warning that demands clear obedience, moral clarity, and submission to God’s law rather than accommodation to cultural standards.

People in this episode

Host: Rushdoony

Topics covered

• sin
• holiness
• justice
• abomination
• idolatry
• moral clarity
• God's law

Keywords

• abominations
• Scripture
• idolatry
• lawlessness
• spiritual corruption
• moral clarity
• cultural standards

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