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ganon, if that much is true, beastiality is suddenly an acceptable practice? There are no mentions of it in the new testament. Yes yes, extreme example.
The problem was, and still is with the Catholic church, that your actions can make you more or less holy, which Paul believed to be utter bullshit.
In Genesis 38:8-10, the proper interpretation by some of the more heavily educated biblical man will tell you that he was withdrawing from her, and therefore disobeying God.
Some translations will read something like:
Then Judah said to Er's brother Onan, "You must marry Tamar, as our law requires of the brother of a man who has died. Her first son from you will be your brother's heir."
But Onan was not willing to have a child who would not be his own heir. So whenever he had intercourse with Tamar, he spilled the semen on the ground to keep her from having a baby who would belong to his brother. But the LORD considered it a wicked thing for Onan to deny a child to his dead brother. So the LORD took Onan's life, too.
This particular passage was taken from New Living Translation (NLT). No, this is not the particular version I normally take text from, but just an example. I'm interested in finding the second reference that the sole 'act' of masturbation is in fact a sin.
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