Why were Adam and Eve embarrassed after eating the fruit and finding out that they were nude?

Question

Why did they feel the need to cover up? It was just them right? Who hides their nude body from their mate? Isn't being nude natural?

Answer 1

Because sin awakens self consciousness and self consciousness produces a sense of inadequacy.
They stopped relying on God. They started relying on themselves, and they realized they were deficient in themselves, resulting in shame.

Answer 2

It wasn't just their bodies they were trying to hide - it was their sin.

Why did the man fear God because of nakedness? Public nakedness in the ancient Near East and in the Bible was a terrible disgrace (cf. Noah, 9:22–25). Here that shame is explained as the consequence of the guilt of sin. Before human disobedience there was no shame (2:25), but with sin the man's self-consciousness had changed. His sense of humiliation impacts his covering up before the woman as well as before God. By this Adam admits his sense of shame, which has been motivated by his guilt.

Nakedness among the Hebrews was shameful because it was often associated with guilt. The parade example is the discovery of Noah's nakedness by his son, which meant family humiliation (9:22–23). Among the Levitical laws the idioms “nakedness” (e.g., Lev 18:6, 10; 20:17) and “make naked” (he‘ĕrâ) for sexual relations are used of sexual offenses (e.g., Lev 20:18–19). Particularly instructive is Exod 20:26, which prohibits men (i.e., priests) ascending the steps of God's altar, lest they expose their genitals before the Lord (cf. linen underpants, Exod 28:42–43).

In Genesis 2:25, “And they felt no shame” fails to make explicit the adversative sense of “but they felt no shame.” It would have been remarkable to the Hebrews that the couple could be naked without embarrassment. It was in Greek culture, and not until the early first millennium B.C., that nudity among Greek males was viewed as heroic.

Answer 3

Well god probably didn't get woman right the first time, and Adam, not knowing any better poontang, was ok with it.

However, the fruit bestowed unto him the knowledge of what hot women actually looked like, and he made Eve cover up cause he didn't want to see that no more.

Nude is not right if you're ugly.

Answer 4

Read the new testament, Warwick 2:13. It clearly states Eve had an allergic reaction to her fig leaf wax. Adam however, was just embarrassed to be turned on by it.

Answer 5

Because they were then no longer in complete and total happiness the apple was poisoned and that gave me bad luck and then came reality....Idk. Being nude is natural but there is something called privacy and people are very mean and judgmental.

Answer 6

before eating the fruit from the forbidden tree,they were innocent. THEserpent bequiled eve by inferring that the reason God forbid the fruit of the forbidden tree was because if they ate of it they would be equal to God Himself. Alluding to the fact that God had no intention but to control them by fear and control. That He had no interest in them except as supplicants,or manipuplative slaves.

Answer 7

God came to the garden:

"Hearing God moving about in the garden, man and woman panic and hide. God calls out to man, “Where are you?” … Adam replies, “I was afraid because I was naked, so I hid.” … God asks, “Who told you that you were naked? Did you eat of the tree from which I forbade you to eat?” … Man’s immediate defense is to blame the woman as well as God: “The woman YOU put at my side - she gave me of the tree, and I ate.” God then turns to women: “What is this you have done!” She replies, “The serpent duped me, and I ate.”

Both man and woman shirk their own responsibility by blaming someone else. Man could have chosen to protect woman, who has just fed him and given him pleasure. He could have said that she did not force him to partake of the fruit. Woman could have explained that she chose to trade immortality in the Garden of Eden for knowledge and wisdom. Like man, however, she disavows any accountability for her action."

Answer 8

Prior to eating from the The Tree of Knowledge they had no concept of what naked meant. But after eating from this tree they were aware of their nakedness. Just like when you go outside, you don't walk around naked do you? You were told that it is an inappropriate thing to do. I believe when they ate from that tree, it gave them knowledge of what being naked meant.

Answer 9

God told them not to eat the apple and after they did they realized they were naked. Sin came into play after they disobeyed God. They looked at each other in a sinful way.

Answer 10

They were hiding from God. Their consciousness that they had done something "wrong" was proof they had eaten of "the fruit of the knowledge of good and evil".