126 Is The Bible God’s Word?answer again. No prizes are offered for these easy answers. They
are so basic. Do wrong and bear the consequence! Onan is
forgotten in the “Book of God,” but Christian sexologists have
immortalized him by referring to “coitus interruptus,” as Onanism1
in their “Books of Sex.”
Now Judah tells his daughter-in-law, Tamar, to return to her
father’s house until his third son Shelah attains manhood, when
she will be brought back so that he can do his duty.A WOMAN’S REVENGE
Shelah grows up and is, perhaps, married to another woman. But
Judah had not fulfilled his obligation to Tamar. Deep in his heart
he is terrified. He has already lost two sons on account of this
“witch,” - “LEST PERADVENTURE HE (Shelah) DIE ALSO, AS
HIS BRETHREN DID/9 (Genesis 38:11). So Judah conveniently
forgets his promise. The aggrieved young lady resolves to take
revenge on her father-in-law for depriving her of her “seed” right.Tamar learned that Judah is going to Timnath to shear his sheep.
She plans to get even with him on the way. She forestalls him,
and goes and sits in an open place en route to Timnath. When
Judah sees her, he thinks she is a harlot because she had covered
her face. He comes up to her and proposes — “ALLOW ME TO
COME IN UNTO THEE; AND SHE SAID WHAT WILT THOU GIVE
ME, THAT THOU MAYEST COME IN UNTO ME?" He promises
that he would send her a goat kid from his flock. What guarantee
could she have that he would send it? What guarantee did she
require, Judah queried. "His ring; his bracelet and his staff' is the
ready answer. The old man hands those possessions to her, and
"CAME IN UNTO HER, AND SHE CONCEIVED BY HIM." (holy
BIBLE) Genesis 38:16-18.
THE MORAL LESSON
Before we seek the heading from Timothy 3:16, under which to
categorize this filthy, dirty story from the “Book of God," 1 amI “ONANISM:” Now immortalized in the Oxford Dictionary.