Well Ralph, that punishment just doesn't make any sense to me. Just like when a man sleeps with a sheep the sheep is suppose to get the ax too. Why? What did the sheep do?<br> <br> _DJA<br><br><b><i>Ralph Nielsen <nielsen@uidaho.edu></i></b> wrote:<blockquote class="replbq" style="border-left: 2px solid rgb(16, 16, 255); margin-left: 5px; padding-left: 5px;"> <br>You really must read your Bible more carefully, Donovan. I was <br>referring to the Onan story in Genesis 38:8-10. It was not God who <br>ordered Onan to get his brother's wife pregnant; it was his daddy <br>Judah. Instead of death for disobedience, the usual punishment is as <br>follows: "... then his brother's wife shall go up to him in the <br>presence of the elders, pull his sandal off his foot, spit in his <br>face, and declare: 'This is what is done to the man who does not <br>build up his brother's house..'" (Deut. 25:9).<br>Ralph Nielsen<br><br>[Vision2020] Re: Parasite?<br>Donovan Arnold
donovanjarnold2005 at yahoo.com<br>Tue Mar 14 14:42:39 PST 2006<br><br>"Why God killed Onan for his disobedience<br>instead of exacting the usual penalty (Deuteronomy 25:5-10) we are<br>not told. But anybody who reads the Bible carefully knows that we<br>can't trust in God."<br><br>What a horrible thing to say! I trust in God more than myself.<br><br>God took back Onan's life because God gave him a direct command to marry<br>his dead brother's wife and give her a child and Onan openly defied<br>God.<br><br>The moral of the story here is, when God tells you to have<br>sex with a woman and get her pregnant, by golly, you better do it! :)<br><br>I was also unaware that Holy Water induced an abortion. I thought<br>that only worked on vampires.<br><br>_DJA<br><br><br>Ralph Nielsen <nielsen at="" uidaho.edu=""> wrote: [Vision2020] Re: Parasite?<br><br><br>Ralph Nielsen<br>Many Bible commentators prefer the word "murder" instead of "kill." A<br>Hebrew is specifically forbidden to!
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fellow Hebrew. Killing<br>people for picking up sticks on a Saturday is commanded by God.<br><br>Joan is correct, the word "abortion" is not found in the Bible. But<br>God does speak of it in two places. Read my letter, the last one, in<br>the Lewiston Tribune, Sunday March 12.<br><br>According to God's law, in Leviticus 27:3-7, the lives of children as<br>well as women are not valued as highly as those of adult men, while<br>no value whatsoever is given to a child under the age of one month.<br>There is no indication that a fetus has any status at all. So size<br>and gender do matter to God.<br><br>Onan's sin was not that of coitus interruptus. It was his refusal to<br>impregnate his brother's widow in order to father a son for his dead<br>brother (Genesis 38:8-10). Why God killed Onan for his disobedience<br>instead of exacting the usual penalty (Deuteronomy 25:5-10) we are<br>not told. But anybody who reads the Bible carefully knows that we<br>can't trust in
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