(March 4, 2015 at 11:48 am)Jenny A Wrote: *gasp* I'm going to have to agree with the Professor on this one--at least about what it means. It mattered to Hebrew men a great deal at that time that they have sons to carry on their name. When a man died without sons, his brother was supposed to marry the widow and have sex with her until she had a son, and that son was to be raised as the son of the deceased brother. Onan didn't want any son of his raised as his brother's, so he defied god's direct order by making sure he didn't have any children with his brother's widow. He was using primitive birth control, the withdrawal method in fact.
God killed him for disobeying. That's simple enough. Icky, but simple. The idea that he was killed for being generally wicked is silly. The story tells us in what way he was wicked. Apparently, not obeying an order to have sex with your brother's wife is sufficiently wicked to merit the death penalty. What else would we expect from a god who dooms an entire species because two people ate a piece of fruit.
I think it was wrong for any being to say sleep with your brothers wife in the first place so i why he chose to rub one off rather than do as he is told.
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