Test Of Inspiration 25
God killed Onan for his selfish envy. He did not want his
deceased brother’s name to carry on as was required by the
Mosaic Law. Ask your Bible-thumper, under which of the four
headings will he put this instant retribution of God? Under —
Doctrine?
Reproof?
Correction? or
Instruction unto Righteousness?“REPROOF!”, again, is his answer. The problem did not tax his
brain.
1 hope that you have already framed the verses 15-18 as
instructed on page 21. This short chapter, Genesis 38, is the
choicest and spiciest piece of pornography in a ‘ Book of God”.
Make a point of reading it a few times.
Judah sends his daughter-in-law, Tamar, to her father’s house
with the promise that when his third son Shelah was big enough
to consummate the marriage he would recall her for him to fulfil
his obligation to give her a baby to perpetuate the name of her
deceased husband Er.Judah was a superstitious person. He had reasoned that he had
lost two sons already through this witch Tamar, his daughter-in-
law, and he was not prepared to risk the life of his only
remaining son Shelah, fearing “ Lest peradventure, he die
also, as his brethren did.” (holybible) Genesis38:it
Shelah is grown, and perhaps already married, but the old man
is not recalling Tamar to enable her to conceive a child in the
name of her late husband.
“ Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned.” She wanted to
avenge Judah’s dereliction of duty. She gets the news that her
father-in-law was going to Timnath to shear his sheep. She
planned to waylay him. She went and sat by the wayside,
knowing in her heart of heart that the old man will never pass
her by without making a pass. True to tradition, Judah saw her
and supposing her to be a harlot, a prostitute, a whore, he
proposes to her -