"Bob Travis"  wrote in message
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>
> In the KJV  I read something that goes something like this: "when God made
> Adam and Eve they were naked. But sin came into the world, and sin
> distorts
> anything. Sin distorts nakedness. Immediately Adam and Eve knew they were
> naked, and they tried to make a pair of pants out of fig leaves. They
> still
> saw their nakedness."
>
> Today there is a common saying among some evanegelists that no people are
> "junk" because God doesn't make junk.
>
> My question is this, if God created Adam and Even naked, why after eating
> from the tree of knowledge, why would it matter to Adam and Eve that they
> were any less than the people God created and if God made them naked why
> would they be ashamed for anyone to see them naked. The Bible seems to
> infer
> nakedness is bad, but if nakedness is bad why would God have created them
> naked.
>
> For the past thirty-odd years husbands and wives and even close friends no
> longer feel shame being naked in the presence of the opposite sex (at
> least
> if they are husband and wife) so why would Adam and Eve even _think_ there
> was anything wrong with them being naked when that was how they were
> created. To think they needed clothes would, in my opinion, be tantamount
> to
> an opinion that God make a mistake when he created them naked and we know
> God does not make mistakes, so what is the explanation?
>
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Consider this.

From the book, "Beyond Acts" pp. 26-7
(http://www.sunrise-publications.com/)
"When Moses came down from the "Mountain," after being in
the presence of
God for forty days, his skin was said to shine so brightly that he had to
put a veil over his face so that people could even come near him (Exod
34:29-35)49. This "bright light" was called by later Jews the
"Shekinah" —
the "dwelling of God." It was so bright that it was impossible
for humans to
look at it, and in the time of Moses, God had to subdue its manifestation
within a thick cloud (Exod 19:16). It hid the Israelites from the pursuing
Egyptians during the day and lighted the way at night for Israel in their
march through the wilderness (Exod 13:21; 14:19-20). To the Egyptians it was
a cloud of darkness, but to Israel a cloud of light. When God spoke to
Moses, this thick cloud covered all of Mount Sinai (Exod 24:15-18). The
purpose of the cloud was to subdue the strong brightness of the Shekinah
Glory of God."

"49. This brightness of Moses’ face was the result of being in the presence
of God. In the story of Adam and Eve it is apparent that they were clothed
in the glory of their maker and their bodies glowed brightly until they
sinned. It would appear from the story that their sin stripped them of the
cloak of God’s radiant covering, and this is why they suddenly felt naked
and needed to seek some other covering to hide their shame."

Paul R. Finch




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