[wideawake]

The person you are thinking of is Odin and it was old testament law that if your brother died before providing his wife with a child you had a duty (not required) to provide her with that child. The sin here was that Odin apparently just used her for sex and tricked her into it even though he hated the woman.

Unbelievable.

(1) Odin was the Scandinavian god of the sky.

(2) Onan was one of the very few people in history that God killed with His own hand using no intermediary.

(3) Onan's sin was to deliberately turn a natural act of intercourse into an unnatural one.

(4) How can a duty be not required?

(5) The law of levirate marriage (marrying one's deceased brother's wife to provide offspring in his name) was a duty and its violation was not punishment with death. The punishment for failing to consummate levirate marriage was to be publicly insulted by the wife of one's deceased brother.

(6) God killed Onan because he turned natural intercourse into unnatural. By the way, God also destroyed Sodom for unnatural intercourse. And God also mandated capital punishment in the Levitical law code for a number of the most heinous acts of unnatural intercourse.

(7) If you are completely unfamiliar with the actual text of the Scripture as written, why should we trust your invented-on-the-spot exegesis?

[LukeL]

Sorry, I was wrong it is Onan. And the death of Onan was basically raping his brothers widow and not wanting to raise a child whom he could not claim as his own blood. To interpret this as a punishment for a primitive birth control method shows a shallow reading the the scripture.

Like I said if you want to condemn the act Onan is commonly accused of doing, look at the teaching of Jesus and adultery of the heart. The act it self is not wrong, it is what accompanies the act.

[Borges]

Unbelievable.

I guess that makes 'Paradise Lost' a sort of 'Clash of the Titans' doesn't it?

Someone needs to say three 'Hail Athena's and check the 2nd Commandment of the Ten that Thor brought down from Sinai (or was it Olympus?)

[cva66snipe]

Onan's sin was to deliberately turn a natural act of intercourse into an unnatural one.

Say what? His sin was disobiedence because he was told to give his brothers wife a child. Had he done the required deed and later spilled his seed in a river afterward it would have not mattered. Spilling hisd seed on the ground was not the sin. Refusing to do as he was told however was please learn the huge difference.