Proverbs 15:26
The thoughts of the wicked are an abomination to the Lord:
But the words of the pure are pleasant words.
I would like to present here a vernacular literal translation of this proverb. ‘The abomination of God is thoughts of evil; words of pleasantness should be pure’. This proverbs tries to point out the evil of clothing ungodly ideas in mellow seemingly spiritual language. This is an abomination to God because the righteous, who is sometimes simple, often falls for the deception.
This age of relativism is dangerous. In ancient cultures, faith was more easily defined. You believed in the God who made the Heavens and the earth, or you believed in some idol. The two represented opposite concepts; it was one or the other and never the twain shall meet. (There was no such thing as ‘atheism’. Even today, atheism is really only the creed of man worshipping himself called: humanism)
Today we live in different times. The devil has used the Almighty’s seeming invisibility and muteness to be a sight and voice for Him. For now about two centuries, we have taken upon ourselves the liberty to define the Creator. Modern preachers tell us what He likes and doesn’t like. They establish on Him a character according to ‘modern’ man’s own definition of righteousness. What our ‘modern’ civilization has done is akin to Aaron in the desert who formed and carved a golden calf and called it by the Name of the Almighty. Today, we don’t need a golden calf; all we need is smart semantics.
Paul advised his leaders to speak as the ‘Oracles’ of the God; meaning, ‘don’t speak unless you are spoken through’. It is blasphemous to say that God doesn’t mind that we do or don’t do certain things about which he was very specific in His Words about. It is lie and deceit to cloak Him with a cover of free everlasting forgiveness that does not involve any retribution for sin.
The character of the Father is easily revealed to us though His deeds. It is by His story in His Book that we know how He is. Let us therefore be true and pure in our presentation of Him to others, to our children, and most importantly, to ourselves.
The thoughts of the wicked are an abomination to the Lord:
But the words of the pure are pleasant words.
I would like to present here a vernacular literal translation of this proverb. ‘The abomination of God is thoughts of evil; words of pleasantness should be pure’. This proverbs tries to point out the evil of clothing ungodly ideas in mellow seemingly spiritual language. This is an abomination to God because the righteous, who is sometimes simple, often falls for the deception.
This age of relativism is dangerous. In ancient cultures, faith was more easily defined. You believed in the God who made the Heavens and the earth, or you believed in some idol. The two represented opposite concepts; it was one or the other and never the twain shall meet. (There was no such thing as ‘atheism’. Even today, atheism is really only the creed of man worshipping himself called: humanism)
Today we live in different times. The devil has used the Almighty’s seeming invisibility and muteness to be a sight and voice for Him. For now about two centuries, we have taken upon ourselves the liberty to define the Creator. Modern preachers tell us what He likes and doesn’t like. They establish on Him a character according to ‘modern’ man’s own definition of righteousness. What our ‘modern’ civilization has done is akin to Aaron in the desert who formed and carved a golden calf and called it by the Name of the Almighty. Today, we don’t need a golden calf; all we need is smart semantics.
Paul advised his leaders to speak as the ‘Oracles’ of the God; meaning, ‘don’t speak unless you are spoken through’. It is blasphemous to say that God doesn’t mind that we do or don’t do certain things about which he was very specific in His Words about. It is lie and deceit to cloak Him with a cover of free everlasting forgiveness that does not involve any retribution for sin.
The character of the Father is easily revealed to us though His deeds. It is by His story in His Book that we know how He is. Let us therefore be true and pure in our presentation of Him to others, to our children, and most importantly, to ourselves.
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