In article , Bob Travis says...
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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."

Why are you quoting this as if it were in the KJV? It is not, you know.

>Today there is a common saying among some evanegelists that no people are 
>"junk" because God doesn't make junk.

And that is true.

>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.


The key words are 'if' and 'seems to'. Remember that in Semitic cultures, the
cultures in which the Adam and Eve account were transmitted and eventually
written down, that one would feel shame when stripped naked was simply taken for
granted. So no further explanation was necessary.

When the account started spreading in Greek culture, though, the Fathers added
the explanation: it is not that they were _stark_ naked before, but were after,
it is that before the Fall, they were clothed not with their own furs (like the
animals) nor with clothes made by human hands (like most of mankind since), but
they were clothed in the glory of God, and felt no need for any other clothing.

But after the Fall, they lost that, and the feeling of nakedness became acute.

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