Onan was a figure detailed in the Book of Genesis chapter 38, as the second son of Judah who married the daughter of Shuah the Canaanite. Onan had an older brother Er and a younger brother, Shelah as well. After being commanded by his father, Judah, to perform his duty as a husband’s brother according to the custom of levirate marriage with the late Er’s wife Tamar, Onan instead refused to perform his duty as a levirate and “spilled his seed on the ground whenever he went in” because “the offspring would not be his”, and was thus put to death by Yahweh. This act is detailed as retribution for being “displeasing in the sight of Lord”. Onan’s crime is often misinterpreted to be masturbation but it is universally agreed among biblical scholars that Onan’s death is attributed to his refusal to fulfill his obligation of levirate marriage with Tamar by committing coitus interruptus.
By their own definition, anything that happens DOES happen through God, so IVF and scientific breakthroughs should shed even more beauty on God. But… no, they spit in the face of science. I’m pretty sure God would be the biggest space/science nerd in any room.
Also wouldn’t IVF be like, really against “god”’s wish? Like, highly unnatural, biblically speakining, no? Like wearing glasses.
Or refusing to impregnate your dead brother’s widow.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Onan
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Idk why the religious wear sunscreen. They’re interfering with God’s plan to bestow a mysterious eye-opening lesson on the meaning of life.
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By their own definition, anything that happens DOES happen through God, so IVF and scientific breakthroughs should shed even more beauty on God. But… no, they spit in the face of science. I’m pretty sure God would be the biggest space/science nerd in any room.