MyChainsAreGone
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If that house of worship is at a naturist resort... why would it be any problem?We are talking about worshipping God in His house in the nude!
Actually, Jesus left all his grave clothes behind when He was resurrected. And in fact, the most compelling explanation of why Mary Magdalene failed to recognized Jesus--assuming He was the gardener--was because he was still completely unclothed... which is exactly how the gardener would have been "dressed" (people at the time worked dirty jobs in the nude to avoid soiling the few clothes they possessed... which often was only one garment).Jesus, when He appeared after His resurrection was clothed. When He taught the multitudes, He was clothed. The multitudes were themselves clothed!
Yes, most people were clothed most of the time in Bible times... but not all of the time. Whenever they passed through the waters of the mikveh, they were naked in public at the public mikveh pools (The Pool of Bethesda and the Pool of Siloam, for example). For women, it was required every month after her period. Whenever people bathed, they had to do so at public bodies of water.
And if anyone was so destitute that they had sold their clothing to buy food, they may well have come to hear Jesus speak with no clothing at all. Your assertion the multitudes were always clothed when they came to hear Jesus speak is unproven and unprovable.
Furthermore, the overwhelming evidence in the Bible is that the poor's lack of clothing was a physical need--keeping warm--not a moral need (see James 2:15-16).
Clothing will never make us more acceptable to God. The lack of clothing will never make us less acceptable to God. To suggest otherwise is an insult to the blood of Christ.
No, the house doesn't deserve the respect, God does. And God is not impressed with clothing.When one enters a house of God, it deserves reverence, respect and full attention. How would you be able to do that with so many naked people in front of you? It just seems totally alien and un holy.
- When everyone at worship has no hat on, then having no hat on is unremarkable and immaterial.
- When everyone at worship has no veil over their face, then having no veil is unremarkable and immaterial.
- When everyone at worship has no shoes on, then having no shoes on is unremarkable and immaterial.
- When everyone at worship is unclothed, then having no clothes on is unremarkable and immaterial.
Yes, it seems so... but it is not... not alien or unholy to God, and not to those who have chosen to worship God in a place and among people for whom the lack of clothing is unremarkable and immaterial.
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