oh, please. So violation of the Levirate wasn’t quite a capital offense, but coitus interruptus was? Or the coitus interruptus was the straw somehow that broke the camel’s back? Give me a break. The twin offenses were failure to honor the Levirate (by far the biggest) and refusal to consummate the marriage (second). “spilling seed” (much less masturbation) still has nothing to do with it.
Many biblical passages began to be misinterpreted in the middle ages, and this was one of the worst offenders. Few serious biblical scholars these days agree with this nonsensical interpretation arising from medieval moral codes having little to do with actual biblical mores and anthropological practice.
There are other biblical arguments against premarital sex. There are few against basic contraception, some Catholic doctrine notwithstanding. Onan has nothing to do with either.
You have already lost the argument here
Or the coitus interruptus was the straw somehow that broke the camel’s back? Give me a break. The twin offenses were failure to honor the Levirate (by far the biggest) and refusal to consummate the marriage (second). “spilling seed” (much less masturbation) still has nothing to do with it.
Many biblical passages began to be misinterpreted in the middle ages, and this was one of the worst offenders.
You know who the Church Fathers are right? Check them out as well. Way before the middle ages. I'll take St. Clement, St. Augustine, St. John Chrysostom, St. Jerome, over the baloney of "modern" liberal scholarship.