I think taking birth control precautions is pretty comission-y.
I must concur. We’ve been judging the wasting of sperm as an act of commission at least as far back as when Genesis was written.
Onan knew that the offspring would not be his; so when he went in to his brother’s wife, he wasted his seed on the ground in order not to give offspring to his brother. But what he did was displeasing in the sight of the LORD; so He took his life also.
There’s a little debate on what Onan was being punished for, whether it was the not-impregnating-and-disobeying-the-Lord or the spilling-seed part. I incline to the disobedience explanation; as the Wikipedia entry mentions, Leviciticus’s punishment for spilling seeds is very far from ‘execution’.
I must concur. We’ve been judging the wasting of sperm as an act of commission at least as far back as when Genesis was written.
Apparently that sperm really was sacred.
There’s a little debate on what Onan was being punished for, whether it was the not-impregnating-and-disobeying-the-Lord or the spilling-seed part. I incline to the disobedience explanation; as the Wikipedia entry mentions, Leviciticus’s punishment for spilling seeds is very far from ‘execution’.