Weird Bible Verses Explained

So there is a lot of weird Bible verses and this post is to just start tackling some of them. First up is:

"It is better to plant thy seed in the belly of a whore than to be cast upon the ground."
Supposedly this verse is where in the Bible we learn that masturbation is not okay. However, this is NOT in the Bible! People say it's based on Onan refusing to fulfill the levirate, spilling his seed on the ground instead of in Tamar as he was supposed to do.
First, Tamar is not a whore. Onan was supposed to get his sister-in-law, the wife of his dead brother, pregnant so that she would have a child to care for her as she age and an heir for her late husband. Look up levirate here http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/Judaism/Halitza.html to read about this Jewish practice.
Second, the Bible does not actually condone the world's oldest profession. It was around because of the pagan societies around Israel, and sometimes the even good guys sampled it (which was a sin on their part). Everybody sins. Saying that someone sinned is not the Bible's version of encouraging that thing. The Bible says this about prostitution (which is fornication and/or adultery) 
     1 Corinthians 6:13 (New Testament book) - Meats for the belly, and the belly for meats: but God shall destroy both it and them. Now the body is not for fornication, but for the Lord; and the Lord for the body.
    Deuteronomy 23:17 (Old Testament book)- There shall be no whore of the daughters of Israel, nor a sodomite of the sons of Israel.
There are other verses but I'm sure you get the point.

"Money is the root of all evil."
Here we have a twisted version of 1 Timothy 6:10 that changes the meaning of the verse. The ACTUAL verse is "Love of money is a root of all sorts of evil, and some by longing for it have wandered away from the faith and pierced themselves with many griefs." Loving money can lead to preferring it over anyone or anything else. We tend to sacrifice relationships, time, and peace of mind for money. Married couples usually argue about money. Children fight for inheritance. We can gamble and lose so much money that we lose a car or house or college/retirement funds. We can become addicted to substances we don't need and obsess with making or stealing the money to get those substances.
Yet money can be used for good. We donate money to help feed folks who can't afford enough food for themselves. We donate money for education, disease research, for housing. Money supports foster children.
So go ahead and have money and spend it, just don't prefer money over anything else.