I refer to my earlier question here:
http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index;_ylt=AuPvwX34U88MhXRoJZbDOZTd7BR.?qid=20070706072223AAgYWM5
Then does this mean that in being naked, the state of which they were first ashamed when they ate the fruit, was the first act of evil?
And does this mean that God created them to do something evil even though they could not know about it? Had they never eaten, would they have continued naked forever, doing something shameful without a concept of shame?
2007-07-06 04:19:54 · 17 answers · asked by Bad Liberal 7 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Why couldn't they be ashamed of being disobedient and stay naked? They might as well have been ashamed at their disobedience and so put on just a pair of gloves. There was a specific evil brought to their attention upon eating the fruit. That evil was not disobedience. It was nakedness. They sought to cover their nakedness, not the fact that they had been disobedient.
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2007-07-06 04:34:58 · update #1
It means they were being evil without knowing about it; which apparently is perfectly OK with God (or since you're using polytheistic Genesis, gods).
2007-07-06 04:23:07 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 7⤊ 0⤋
Seems like you are a great thinker, so now follow through with the thoughts. Now invent a process so that all babies will be born with clothes on so they will not have to go through that shameful experience of that terrible sin of being naked.
My Friend maybe that is the way to reverse the trends in the World and get it off to a new start. You can name the first baby born already clothed as MR Adam #2 or Mr. Adam Jr.
I think you should give it a lot of thought my friend! You can get rich and then finance your own religious movement.
Now just smile and do post some more great questions OK
2007-07-06 17:33:51 · answer #2 · answered by cjkeysjr 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
no longer a honest assessment. in case you replace the Utopian international of A&E to greater healthful at present's cases, you need to think of a international without ailment, the place no person is hungry, suffering or homeless. think of if God surely appeared, granted all this or perhaps presented each and every man or woman or kin a loose domicile that fee no longer something to maintain. What could ensue? approximately 10 minutes after God grow to be accomplished, somebody could say, "hi, how come that guy have been given the domicile with the fairly stable view", human beings could start up battling, killing one yet another and complaining that God did no longer care. So i think a honest assessment of God to oldsters could be if the mothers and dads did each and every thing interior of their ability to maintain bleach from the youngster however the youngster breaks into the buddies domicile, steals an ax, and then spends an hour smashing open the cabinet the place the bleach is locked so he can drink it.
2016-11-08 07:55:45 · answer #3 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Or, if they had no knowledge of good and evil, how could they know that it was wrong to eat of a forbidden tree?
And why is it that so few Christians know why Adam and Eve were ejected from the garden in the story? They were cast out of the garden by the gods before they could eat of the tree of life. Since they already had knowledge of good and evil, once they gained immortality, they would have become gods themselves. I guess the club is a pretty exclusive one.
2007-07-06 04:31:05 · answer #4 · answered by Diminati 5 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Does it not frustrate the crap out of you that you formed an intelligent, well worded question, yet the most any Christian responder can muster is to REPEAT what youve said, then ignore the underlying question (nice job, sparki777)?
How does shame from disobediance turn into shame of your naked body? RIDICULOUS!
2007-07-06 04:43:48 · answer #5 · answered by ? 5 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Being naked wasn't a sin for Adam and Eve at all. The sin was in disobeying God and eating the fruit from the one tree God told them not to eat from, even though there was lots of other good, wonderful, tasty fruit in the garden.
Once they sinned, they felt the need to cover themselves. They felt shame in nakedness, even though originally there was no shame at all. And being a husband and wife, at home, alone, they shouldn't have felt shame and wouldn't have felt shame if they hadn't done something wrong.
2007-07-06 04:26:54 · answer #6 · answered by sparki777 7 · 1⤊ 4⤋
Huh, that's one I never thought of.
Why were they ashamed to be naked? It's like there was a pre-existing state that they should have been ashamed of?
Heh, it's always interesting to uncover another oddity in the theology.
2007-07-06 04:24:30 · answer #7 · answered by Eldritch 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
God gave them a choice (free will) when He told them not to eat of the fruit of that one tree. (ALL the other trees were fair game.)
Nakedness was not the issue. Disobedience was (and still is).
They ate of the tree and were aware that they had disobeyed God. Once that awareness sinks in, man become self-aware and self-conscious, if you will.
Once sin entered the world, Adam & Eve's focus was no longer on God, and each other, but on "self." Shame is the natural result.
Sin brings us from being other-oriented, to self-oriented.
2007-07-06 04:29:04 · answer #8 · answered by Bobby Jim 7 · 2⤊ 3⤋
What would be evil about a man and wife being alone and naked? In a beautiful garden...with no work to do....and their bodies were perfect....evil?
2007-07-06 04:25:41 · answer #9 · answered by Graham 5 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Shame is a characteristic of intelligent beings. Watch your pets groom themselves, they are not insecure about their exposed genitals. Shame is a state of mind. Take nudists for example.
2007-07-06 04:23:20 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 0⤋