(Ron) Sex, lust, and the Catholic Church
Farrell Till jftill@midwest.net
Mon, 07 Sep 1998 23:28:06 -0700 (00905254086, 2.2.32.19980908062806.00878b78@midwest.net)
At 07:26 PM 9/7/98 -0700, Michael W. Fisher wrote:
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>Brian Dean sent: Monday, September 07, 1998 6:03 PM
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>ELF
>Why?
>Onan's sin wasn't "spilling the seed" qua "spilling the seed", it was
>breaching his duty to his dead brother.
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>BRIDEAN
>Actually, the Bible contradicts that because breaching your duty to
>your dead brother was NOT a death penalty offense (Deut 25:5-10).
>Since God gave Onan the death penalty, it must have been some
>other offense. Unless you are going to argue that God killed him
>capriciously (not the first time something like that would happen).
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>ELF
>A quick review of the applicable scripture explains the difference.
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>In Gen 38: 8-10, Yahweh himself charges Onan in particular with the duty of
>the leverate. Thus the punishment meted out to Onan had more to do with
>disobeying direct orders from God than with the breach of the leverate.
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TILL
Actually as the story was told, Judah (Onan's father) was the one who told
Onan to go in to Tamar and "perform the duty of a husband's brother to her"
(Gen. 38:8).
Farrell Till
Skepticism, Inc.
jftill@midwest.net