Are nudist church services morally acceptable?

Are nudist religious services morally acceptable?

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It is horribly wrong, Men will lust after a woman, Woman will lust after men.

The whole focus of the church will be on others organs and each other.

This is pagan work, I don't have words to describe this horror.
But you are writing this with a western cultural bent.
 
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Here is a YouTube video about a church where the congregants and preacher participate in religious services while being butt naked:


Personally, I think it is morally unacceptable to have church services while in the nude. 1 Corinthians 6:19 says that our bodies are temples of the Holy Spirit. Therefore, we should not strip down naked while in the house of the Lord--or anywhere in public. That's weird!

Genesis 9

20 Noah began to be a man of the soil, and he planted a vineyard. 21He drank of the wine and became drunk and lay uncovered in his tent. 22 And Ham, the father of Canaan, saw the nakedness of his father and told his two brothers outside. 23 Then Shem and Japheth took a garment, laid it on both their shoulders, and walked backward and covered the nakedness of their father. Their faces were turned backward, and they did not see their father’s nakedness.

Yes Noah was drunk not good either ... but the focus is on primarily on his nakedness ... and they covered him.

Did Jesus preach/teach in the nude? No. Did the disciples preach/teach in the nude? No.

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concerned with the principles of right and wrong behavior and the goodness or badness of human character.

Not proper character if claiming to be Christian.

If not Christian .... I suppose depends what ones "principles" are based on which can vary from individual to individual.
 
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Because of our culture.


Child sacrifice is wrong no matter the culture, child inappropriate contentography is wrong no matter the culture, any kind of inappropriate contentography is wrong no matter the culture, mistreating animals is wrong no matter the culture, neglect of children is wrong no matter the culture, the burning of widows when their husbands die is wrong no matter the culture. Wrong doing is not dependent on culture. God's ways changes cultures.
 
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Child sacrifice is wrong no matter the culture, child inappropriate contentography is wrong no matter the culture, any kind of inappropriate contentography is wrong no matter the culture, mistreating animals is wrong no matter the culture, neglect of children is wrong no matter the culture, the burning of widows when their husbands die is wrong no matter the culture. Wrong doing is not dependent on culture. God's ways changes cultures.
Oh get real! We are not talking about child sacrifice or mistreating animals or burning widows or anything else you mentioned. When people don’t have reasonable arguments they bring up stuff like this.
 
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Oh get real! We are not talking about child sacrifice or mistreating animals or burning widows or anything else you mentioned. When people don’t have reasonable arguments they bring up stuff like this.


You get real! God is the same yesterday, today, and forever! He never changes! Wrong is wrong and those too mired in what man thinks instead of what God thinks will always try to defend their immorality with lame excuses.
 
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What does The Word of God state about nudity?
The Word of God presents nakedness as shameful and degrading.
Genesis 9:21
Exodus 20:26; 32:25
2 Chronicles 28:19
Isaiah 47:3
Ezekiel 16:35-36
Luke 8:27
Revelation 3:17; 16:15; 17:16

The only verses in which nudity is free of shame are those that describe Edens idyllic setting or that deal with marital relations .

Proverbs 5:28-19
Song of Solomon 4

All glory be to God now and forever!
 
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You get real! God is the same yesterday, today, and forever! He never changes! Wrong is wrong and those too mired in what man thinks instead of what God thinks will always try to defend their immorality with lame excuses.
This is wrong only according to your opinion, not according to scripture.
 
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Here is a YouTube video about a church where the congregants and preacher participate in religious services while being butt naked:


Personally, I think it is morally unacceptable to have church services while in the nude. 1 Corinthians 6:19 says that our bodies are temples of the Holy Spirit. Therefore, we should not strip down naked while in the house of the Lord--or anywhere in public. That's weird!
Wow!!!
Could you post the address....
 
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This is wrong only according to your opinion, not according to scripture.


It is wrong to any mind not clouded with manmade mores and "cultural" immorality.
 
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So, let's see...
Since I haven't killed anyone, is it OK to have an adulterous affair?
Adulery is prohibited in scripture. Nude worship is not.
 
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It is wrong to any mind not clouded with manmade mores and "cultural" immorality.
But you are applying modern western views linking sex and nudity. Those views do not exist in every culture.
 
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But you are applying modern western views linking sex and nudity. Those views do not exist in every culture.
You're absolutely 100% correct.
But where is the nudist church?
I didn't watch the video but the guy on the media looked white and western to me.

I say white because most of the cultures YOU'RE speaking of are dark skinned.
 
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God created Adam and Eve naked and declared it good.... so now the argument is that God created Adam and Eve in a sinful state and then lied about it?.......o_O


They were sinless---we are not. They were in a perfect world, this is not. The first thing that happened when they sinned, they came face to face with shame and covered themselves up and then God covered them up. This is not shameful only to those who have no shame, which is not something that we can do without in this world until God remakes us and the world and all sin is wiped out. It is the Holy Spirit talking and that voice is drowned out at the peril to ones own soul.
 
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Adulery is prohibited in scripture. Nude worship is not.
1 Timothy 2:9
9Likewise, I want women to adorn themselves with proper clothing, modestly and discreetly, not with braided hair and gold or pearls or costly garments,
 
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But you are applying modern western views linking sex and nudity. Those views do not exist in every culture.


They do in God's culture. You are free to worship as you please---you will answer to only to God not me and for those you lead astray.
 
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They do in God's culture.

They exist in God’s culture only according to your opinion.

You are free to worship as you please---you will answer to only to God not me and for those you lead astray.

But I’m not worshiping in the nude. I’m simply stating that there is nothing wrong with doing so.
 
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They exist in God’s culture only according to your opinion.



But I’m not worshiping in the nude. I’m simply stating that there is nothing wrong with doing so.


They exist in God's culture according to His opinion, not the opinion of sinful man.


Why not??
 
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