Originally Posted by kyles
I ain't disagreeing with anyone's ideals not one bit. But we need to delve into why God struck Onan dead. He must have been pretty displeased with him. I also understand fully well this was an isolated incident. Because I did not want kids early. My wife stayed on the pill till I was 27. I more or less gave in to her and we have two daughters then she had her tubes tied. I did not fully understand love till we had kids . I thought we were in the right but I can't give you a scripture proving we were. He did not strike me dead so he was not as mad as me as he was Onan. That's all I got on this back to talking about trapping only for me

My reading of the Onan story is that he was punished for failing to provide offspring for his dead brother (levirate marriage) and not for masturbating/pulling out.