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In the Biblical Book of Genesis, Onan (Hebrew: אוֹנָן , Modern Onan Tiberian ʾװnān ; Strong) was the second son of Judah. Certain interpretations of the narrative concerning him ...
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For centuries the Christian churches of various persuasions have identified the sin of Onan with masturbation and identified this act as the reason for the fact that the Lord slew Onan. This has become part of secular myth and entered the language in specific terminology. ... and she called his name Onan. 5 And she yet...
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In other words, according to those exegetes who focus their attention exclusively on this custom in their reading of Genesis 38, Onan's sin is presented here as consisting only in his selfish intent to deny offspring to his brother's widow Tamar, and not even partly in the unnatural method he employed in doing so.
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I turned from this depressing prospect to see a young woman striding past, wearing a T-shirt with the legend: `Masturbation is not a sin- ... Even the biblical Onan who spilled his seed on the ground instead of inseminating his dead brother's wife was `probably not a masturbator at all', Laqueur tells us (p. 20).
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Moreover, in the view of revisionist exegetes, Onan's sin is presented here as being essentially one of omission. We are asked to believe that, according to Genesis, Onan committed no sinful act;
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The Sin Of Onan and Contraception Sacred Scripture ... The sin of Onan is coitus interuptus with the intent to 1) deny the continuance of his brother's line, 2) insult Onan's widow by deceit (the pretense of sex without the intent: his action is neither unitive nor procreative), 3) holding her up to public ridicule as...
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