Nudity
When one attains a certain level of understanding which comes from awareness of who one really is, it becomes easier to discern the meaning of events portrayed in Christian scripture.Let's take a look at the fall of mankind.
When God created Adam and Eve, he pronounced them good. This does not mean that they were morally good. What this means is that their bodies were biologically perfect. The story of the fall of mankind tells us that Adam And Eve did something to ruin the perfection of their bodies (in scriptural terms, this ruination is thought of as a corruption that caused death and disease to enter the World).
When Adam and Eve realised that they had "broken" the wonderfull bodies God had given them, they hid their bodies from the sight of God because of what they had done to themselves, not because they realised they were naked. The shame they felt at ruining their perfect bodies drove them to desire the wearing of clothes, so that God could not see what they had done to their wonderfull bodies.
Nudity, then, is nothing to be ashamed of. No part of the body is considered to be shamefull to expose to the sight of God. God created our bodies, and he delights in the sight of us the way He intended us to be: as naked as the day we were born.
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