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I'm not comprehending your question.
I believe the OP mentions it was for a class, which would presumably include both males and female.When I first read the thread's title, I thought it was about Art Model, the controversial deceased owner of the Cleveland Browns, who on the one hand was very generous in his active support of social causes, but on the other hand was reviled by Christian residents of Cleveland for moving the team to Baltimore. Someone spit on his grace for this! So I had to scrap my preliminary research into Model and his detractors. I can't believe the OP fails to specify whether the model and painter are of opposite sexes.
I think it is up to you. What do you feel about it? What a man thinketh, so is he. If you feel it is wrong and a sin, to you it is wrong and a sin.
I personally, dont believe God bothers herself with trivial matters such as these. He lets us choose what is right or wrong for ourselves. Of course there are the religious who makes rules and try to get others to believe them and it eventually does become sins to all those who believe. But each man has to decide for himself.
So lets forget about religion or spirituality, because this doesn't relate.....unless you want to make it.
If I was a hunk , which I Am, and someone wanted to put my hunkness on a canvas....I would oblige....if I were single. An insecure person would not...and would probably give other reasons other than their our insecurity.
If married....i dont think i would....and i wouldnt want a wife or daughter doing it either....for ingrained cultural reasons (how i was brought up)
So did I.I made the assumption that such a beautiful, intelligent Lady would have been spoken for.
Divorce is serious. I think marriage is a sacrament and divorce is not to be entered lightly. So, no, if I were married, I would not divorce my husband over something so trivial. I just would rather he not pose nude.
Would you have a problem if your wife posed nude for male art students?
For goodness' sake, I nor anyone else, is suggesting he go out and pose for pornography.
Do you think Michaelangelo's statue of David is pornographic? When I look at it, I see the beauty of the male form- but get no sexual stimulation at all.
There is a distinction to be made between art and pornography.
The question he has is, As a Christian, should he pose nude for art, since he is married?
There are a lot of layers, here, I think. It's an interesting ethical problem. I love art. I love the naked female and male forms in art. But, I get no sexual stimulation from art. I don't look at, watch, or read pornography.
Is it your position that nudity in art is the same as pornography?
Art is different, in my opinion. It is not a photograph, or film of a real person. Art is representation of a real form. It's not a real person.Isn't all nudity, except for a husband and a wife, shameful and stealing what isn't yours?
Sure, God gave marriage to the human family. He gave it to Adam and Eve and it persisted through the ages.When people say marriage is a sacrament, what about in other time periods like Pre-Columbian America or other places like the islamic countries, where there isn't Christianity or Judaism?
Sure, God gave marriage to the human family. He gave it to Adam and Eve and it persisted through the ages.
No, I don't find it confusing. I know people groups have changed marriage from what God originally intended- one man and one woman, but the institution survives- even in a perverted form. Even the Israelites practiced polygamy- which is not what God intended. So if God's people twisted marriage, it should come as no surprise that pagans changed the form, too.Do you find the definition of marriage confusing at all or not really? The rights/privileges/benefits/obligations that people had in the circumstances I mentioned are very different from what we have in America.
No, I don't find it confusing. I know people groups have changed marriage from what God originally intended- one man and one woman, but the institution survives- even in a perverted form. Even the Israelites practiced polygamy- which is not what God intended. So if God's people twisted marriage, it should come as no surprise that pagans changed the form, too.
I'm rather MORE amazed that so many cultures do define marriage as between one man and one woman. It sure has lasted a long time.
I love God foremost and I love art. I think it would be sinful to model in the nude.
1 John 5
19 And we know that we are of God, and the whole world lieth in wickedness.
1 Thessalonians 5
22 Abstain from all appearance of evil.
I am not sure if it is sinful for a man, since your nude body is not likely to stimulate the ladies drawing you (no offense, women just imbibe pornography through the framework of a story and not so much as just seeing a naked man).
Hi; so what do you think of people making anatomy drawings for medical study?I think you stereotype all women as thinking the same as you and your friends, it would be the same as saying all men are doomed to get into pornography as well as sleep around with tonz of women just because they are ALL wired this way. There are many women out there who can also struggle with seeing men without a shirt, or just in a tiny swimsuit as well as in the nude. I myself don't like seeing other men without a shirt on, I don't feel comfortable with this. Except of my husband, of course.
I guess my point in post #59, above, is similar to yours.I think a lil differently to Galatea but respect what she writes. For me its about intent. Its art class not a sex class so... You could be a model patient for a class of med /nursing students.... same thing. I think we should NOT focus on "what if I stimulate someone" and instead on the benefits of what you're doing for students.
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