God and Clothing?

Question

God created us naked

So why do we have to wear clothes?

Answer 1

Ah, so only a few people can come up with an answer other than "to cover their shame." Why should they have been ashamed? That was how they were "made", right? Yet another instance of the church (the men who wrote the bible) influencing people to think nakedness is wicked and sex is unholy. If your bodily design was good enough for God, why should you be ashamed of it? He "made" you that way. Shame is taught.

And I also live in Upstate NY, so yeah, when it's cold, it's COLD. That's when I wear more not to cover my shame, but to keep my behind warm!

Answer 2

The most obvious answer is, to protect our bodies from the natural elements. Another view is that, because human females are sexually receptive much of the time, the wearing of clothes reduces sexual tensions between males, so that human civilization is possible. Sometimes clothes are an ostentatious display of wealth and are worn for ego gratification. Yet another view is that wearing clothes teaches us to be ashamed of our own bodies and makes us unwilling to submit to the assessments of others. This sense of bodily shame causes us to abandon normal mammalian pair-bonding and to replace it with the marriage rituals of organized religion. Religion insists we wear clothing so we will become dependent on religion as a substitute for our natural mating behaviors.

Answer 3

You've no doubt noticed that peoples who have not been contaminated by modern culture and live in hot climates wear little to no clothes. Yet simular cultures in the extreme North are covered to the hilt. Common sense. There is something to be said about present day culture and clothes. If our culture was comfortable with little to no clothes....that's what we would be doing. Our individual opinion can be displayed in our own home.
But way too many people would be made extremily uncomfortable if this was done in public, despite any reasonable explantion for it. The desires of the majority usually reign. In this instance, the majority are in overwhelming numbers.

Answer 4

Your clothes conceal much of your beauty, yet they hide not the unbeautiful.
And though you seek in garments the freedom of privacy you may find in them a harness and a chain.
Would that you could meet the sun and the wind with more of your skin and less of your raiment,
For the breath of life is in the sunlight and the hand of life is in the wind.

Some of you say,"It is the north wind who has woven the clothes we wear."
And I say, Ay, it was the north wind,
But shame was his loom, and the softening of the sinews was his thread.
And when his work was done he laughed in the forest.
Forget not that modesty is for a shield against the eye of the unclean.

And when the unclean shall be no more, what were modesty but a fetter and a fouling of the mind?
And forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair.

-when all those unclean fundies who think of nothing but sex all day are gone, then we wont need them anymore except in up state New York during the winter.

Answer 5

Yeah I love that - Adam and Eve ate the fruit of the tree of _knowledge_ which made them ashamed of their nakedness. Knowledge...is that somehow connected to "knowing" in a Biblical sense? I mean why should they be ashamed of being naked - apart from anything else, who was around to see them? And how did they learn to sew?

Answer 6

Because we are sinful creatures.
After Adam and Eve had sinned they found themselves physically naked and filled with shame. Physical nakedness is symbolic of being spiritual naked with all sins exposed.
Adam and Eve tried hiding their nakedness from God just as we try to hide our sins from the face of God. However, once in Christ we are clothed with the righteousness of God and we are no longer spiritually naked.

Revelation 16:15 “Behold, I am coming as a thief. Blessed is he who watches, and keeps his garments, lest he walk naked and they see his shame.”

Revelation 3:18 I counsel you to buy from Me gold refined in the fire, that you may be rich; and white garments, that you may be clothed, that the shame of your nakedness may not be revealed; and anoint your eyes with eye salve, that you may see.

Answer 7

After Adam and Eve ate of the forbidden fruit, their eyes were opened, and they noticed they were naked. They immediately clothed themselves in shame.

Answer 8

Because the prudes in church don't want to see your winky peeking out during service.

Answer 9

God didn't create those glasses resting on your nose, either. So why do you wear them?

Answer 10

Adam and Eve did not know that they were naked until they committed sin. They lived in a perfect world until sin came into it. We live in a sinful world and trust me we know when we are naked.