a friend asked me this: Am I a sinner if I go to a nude Beach?

Question

please be serious, because I'm planning to take the best answers to give a reasonable answer to my friend!

Answer 1

Yes, and it covers a wide variety of sins. The first one is putting yourself in a position to influence another Christian to stray. (Other Christians may be at the nude beach. If they see you there they may think it is alright to do it. BTW-Wave at me while you are there.)

The second reason is that you are not to look upon another person's body with lust, other than your husband or wife. And the third may deal with the thoughts and feelings you experience as a result of looking at another naked person. The bible says that thinking about having sex with someone is the same a having sex with them.

Also, it may bring up feelings of homosexuality. That's also a sin. And if other people look upon your body, they may have sexual or homosexual thoughts.

Personally, I would love to go. Should I bring a towel?

Answer 2

To be honest, I don't think anyone has any right to judge whether what you have done is a "sin" or not. We were all born sinners, there is not one person who has never committed a sin. No sin is "better" or "worse" than another. Luckily Jesus died on the cross to forgive all our sins. Now for your specific question, Personally, I don't think there is anything wrong with it. God has made mention that we are not to have sex with others before marriage, so going to a nude beach and having sex with every Tom, D, and Harry I believe is wrong, but not going to a nude beach. Your friend should do what SHE feels right doing and what her conscience feels good about and don't let others influence her decision either way. It's not about them. Hope this helps some!

Answer 3

Avoidance of nudity is strictly an American idea in this case, as I'm assuming you're asking under the idea of Christianity. Unless "Thou shall not be nude in public with other nude people" was on the third tablet that Moses carried down from the Burning Bush, it is not sinful. I've done it in Germany, and it was the most refreshing, wonderfuld day ever. Because everyone was naked, it just felt normal. And swimming nude makes you feel like a two year old again. It's the best!

Answer 4

This is a very close call and it really depends on many variables.

Christians are supposed to abstain from ANY action that would lead another person to commit sin. Nudity is NOT, in and of itself, a sin -- contrary to what some people have written here.

I know someone who has been to several such places. Some were full of lecherous people (male and female); others were very matter-of-fact places where nudity wasn't really an issue, and no one reacted lustfully. Because a nude beach isn't exactly the kind of place you could HIDE such a reaction, I'm inclined to believe the latter place is acceptable for a Christian who is so inclined. On the other hand, Paul wrote that women should be dressed modestly; but I think he was addressing issues such as leading others to sin and committing the sin of pride.

(And I will now prepare myself for the thumbs down and nasty emails .......)

Answer 5

You're a sinner, anyway, according to the Bible: "All have sinned and fallen short..."

But, to answer the real question, it isn't a sin to be naked, or a sin (necessarily) to see someone else naked. It IS a sin to lust, though. Jesus said that to look at someone to lust after them is like committing adultery with them. It's also wrong for us to tempt others to lust.

If you can go to a nude beach without lusting, and without causing someone else to lust after you, then enjoy your freedom! I couldn't do it (the first, that is), unless it was an all-male beach. So I would be sinning, for sure. But no one else can know for sure what my motives are, or how I feel inside, or what I'm thinking. I have to be honest with myself, and listen to the conscience that God gave me.

Hope this helps! May God bless you and your friend.

Answer 6

Let me preface this by saying that I don't personally believe in "sin" That being said, if your friend is concerned about being "sinful" by going to a nude beach tell him/her to look at why s/he wants to go. Is it because s/he enjoys the freedom and the feel of the sun, wind and waves on the skin, or is it to ogle the other beach goers. Motivation is where the answer lies.

PS. That haircut is still a sin

Answer 7

I'm religious, and no, I don't think it's a sin to go to a nude beach. Personally, I don't feet that nudity is something to be ashamed of. It's the natural state in which we were created. But it probably depends upon your reasons for going. If you're going with nothing but prurient interests in mind, then it's probably best to stay home, because that's not what a nude beach is all about, anyway.

Answer 8

Depends on how "Christian" you want to be with your answer...

Because according to most Christian dogma I hear, we all are sinners...regardless of whether we go to a nude beach or not.

But from what little I know about the Bible, there is nothing innately sinful about nudity. It was God's original chosen costume for Adam and Eve.

Now, if they are going to the nude beach strictly for the purpose of ogling other nude people and experiencing the lasciviousness and lustfulness of that, then that might be sinful. But true nudists aren't a bunch of lust-driven voyeurs. So it really depends on their motivation for going to the nude beach, and how they plan on experiencing it.

Answer 9

It depends on the reason you are going to a nude beach. If you are going in hopes of seeing something arousing because you lust for seeing the nude form, then its a sin. If you happen to enjoy getting an all over tan with no tan lines and thats the only reason you are going, then you're not a sinner. I would suggest against it anyway because our flesh is weak and you would be tempting your flesh to sin.

Answer 10

We are all sinners...it doesn't make us sinners to go to a nude beach...Sin is a separation between man and God...is your friend separating himself from God?