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I'll agree with that and also add why his violation of natural law was so bad that God killed him for it.

(I'm repeating myself from another post)

I'm of the thinking that Onan did not impregnate Tamar because he knew that if she had a male child, it would be Er's and that child would receive the double portion and blessing from Judah. And Onan - who was now, with Er's death, the oldest male child - thought himself to be the inheriter of the double blessing and wanted it for himself. He enjoyed sex with Tamar but ejaculated on the ground so as to avoid losing his dead brother's inheritance that would go to him, if no son for Er was produced.

Onan was greeeeeedy little man. Greedy for sex on his terms and greed for his father's wealth.

The sin here wasn't one of making a decison to not have a child or birth control all by itself. The sin was [1] disobedience to God, [2] dishonoring the law of the levirate marriage, [3] dishonoring one's father (Judah told Onan to take Tamar in), and [4] dishonoring one's wife (Judah told Onan that he had a duty to her) and [5] the sin of keeping her a childless woman with no security - that would have put her in a bad place.

And, in my opinion, the overarching sin was the sin of greed - a selfish greed that would have and did cause disrespect and harm to others.

 

I think you mean endometrium.

 

Nope. Not at all!! I just seem to know a little more about conception and the Bible than you do.

Interesting because questions have been asked and we still don't see answers. We are allowed to ask but you won't answer?

What verse in the Bible says that preventing a pregnancy in couples is a sin?

 

And I will disagree with you here. The sin was the clear disobedience of the law. It had nothing to do with the fact that he withdrew, it had to do with the fact that he would not fulfill the law and his duty.

Remember that we are not under the law.

 

It's interesting because you've had time to post many posts since you were asked the question.

 

See, it's interesting because when something is not mentioned in the Bible as sin, there are no verses for it OR against it as is the case here. If it's a sin, it's not mentioned in the Bible as such. So, if it's not mentioned in the Bible, is it sin?

 

Do we see what the sin was here? It was not obeying in giving his brother a child. This is not directive in the issue of birth control.

 

Please read post #41.

This passage is not about a couple practicing birth control.

It's about greed.