-Caveat Lector-
In a message dated 12/17/99 6:48:28 AM Eastern Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
writes:
> << is said to have "spilled his seed on the ground". God then kills Onan.
> Personally I think Onan was killed for disobeying God and not for the
> masturbation, or the spilling of the seed. >>
>
> I've always wondered at the odd interpretation in this case. If your God
> orders you to do anything, and you failed to do so, I would imagine it was
a
> sin. Besides I'm seeing Coitus Interruptus rather than masterbation
anyway.
> Oh well. Prudy
I agree, my point was that it was the disobeying which was the sin, not the
"coitus interruptus" (or masturbation if anyone prefers to interpret it that
way).
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