Nudes

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God created man in his own image and created him nude from what I can tell. Indeed Adam and Eve were nude until they knew the difference between good and evil.

So... Questions...

A) After Armageddon when, hopefully, you pass through the perly gates.. will you be confronted by nudity?

Nope.

Revelation 6:9-11
9 And when he had opened the fifth seal, I saw under the altar the souls of them that were slain for the word of God, and for the testimony which they held:
10 And they cried with a loud voice, saying, How long, O Lord, holy and true, dost thou not judge and avenge our blood on them that dwell on the earth?
11 And white robes were given unto every one of them...

Revelation 7:9
9 After these things I looked, and behold, a great multitude which no one could count, from every nation and all tribes and peoples and tongues, standing before the throne and before the Lamb, clothed in white robes, and palm branches were in their hands;

Revelation 1:12-13
12 Then I turned to see the voice that was speaking with me. And having turned I saw seven golden lampstands;
13 and in the middle of the lampstands I saw one like a son of man, clothed in a robe reaching to the feet, and girded across His chest with a golden sash.

B) If nudity is indeed wrong, then why did God create people and leave people in that way... until their own sin led them to realise nudity as wrong?

In a condition of moral innocence, nudity has no moral consequence or character. But since the Fall in Eden, since humanity is no longer morally-innocent, cursed by a propensity toward sin, public nudity is now a provocation to evil and a token of shame and judgment, in God's economy of things.

C) Were Adam and Eve mistaken to consider nudity wrong... and would it please God if Christians were more like some Jain holy-men going about starkers?

Nope. Nakedness in Scripture is commonly associated with shame and divine judgment.

Isaiah 47:3
3 Your nakedness shall be uncovered, and your disgrace shall be seen. I will take vengeance, and I will spare no one.

Ezekiel 23:9-10
9 Therefore I delivered her into the hands of her lovers, into the hands of the Assyrians, after whom she lusted.
10 These uncovered her nakedness; they seized her sons and her daughters; and as for her, they killed her with the sword; and she became a byword among women, when judgment had been executed on her.

Deuteronomy 28:47-48
47 Because you did not serve the LORD your God with joyfulness and gladness of heart, because of the abundance of all things,
48 therefore you shall serve your enemies whom the LORD will send against you, in hunger and thirst, in nakedness, and lacking everything. And he will put a yoke of iron on your neck until he has destroyed you.

Micah 1:11
11 Pass on your way, inhabitants of Shaphir, in nakedness and shame...

Nahum 3:5
5 Behold, I am against you, declares the LORD of hosts, and will lift up your skirts over your face; and I will make nations look at your nakedness and kingdoms at your shame.

Habakkuk 2:15-16
15 "Woe to you who make your neighbors drink, Who mix in your venom even to make them drunk So as to look on their nakedness!
16 "You will be filled with disgrace rather than honor. Now you yourself drink and expose your own nakedness. The cup in the LORD'S right hand will come around to you, And utter disgrace will come upon your glory.

 

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God created man

God created man in his own image and created him nude from what I can tell. Indeed Adam and Eve were nude until they knew the difference between good and evil.

A &E never realized nor thought their nudity was wrong or shameful. They hid behind aprons and trees because of fear for their sin. Naked in Genesis 3 in translated from the Hebrew word "eyrom" meaning vulnerable or in danger, not physically bare.