I think humanity inherited shame after the fall. The Bible says that they didn't even NOTICE that they were naked until after they sinned. This whole preoccupation that humans have with nudity is abnormal. Animals are "naked" and they could care less. Humans are the ONLY species that wears clothes. And look where it's gotten us: we use it to create fake hierarchies of who's better or not. We use it to divide. Think of gangs.
If we're all just in our B-day suits the playing field is leveled, so-to-speak. The climate will be mild again so who knows? I would lean to say yes because there was nothing shameful about nudity back then and they weren't so sex-crazed until the demons came down and perverted everything.
That's what kind of culture the apostles were living in. Ever see the Roman statues? They're all NAKED. Maybe they've have a drape, maybe not. But games were played naked and it was normal. And there were many statues and frescos showing blatantly sexual scenes and even homosexual scenes. Many of the emperors were homosexual. One of them was even married to a man.
Keep in mind that the word "normal" comes from "norm"" and "Normal" doesn't mean "sane" it just means what is the "norm" or "mean" or "average common thing to do" in culture. And culture comes from the word that means to culture something in a petri dish. Culture is cultured by someone or someones (could it be Satan, maybe?--she says in her best SNL church lady voice). Who cultured the Romans? Well, look at all the false gods that they worshipped.
I've always wondered HOW the scriptures at Ephesians were actually at work:
Ephesians 4:2,3:
2 in which you at one time walked according to the system of things of this world, according to the ruler of the
authority of the air, the spirit that is now at work in the sons of disobedience. 3 Yes, among them we all at one time conducted ourselves in harmony with the desires of our flesh, carrying out the will of the flesh and of our thoughts, and we were naturally children of wrath
g just as the rest.
I find it no accident that TV programs are called "air waves" and same with radio stations. Mass media has been Satan's #1 tool for communicating to all of us that we smell bad, we're too fat and should be ashamed, we should all be sex-crazed maniacs, etc. Hollywood's moguls know that people learn by example and they imitate what they see. And then they created a "moral majority" by creating false "polls" of what people supposedly think, so that people have a falsely created peer pressure to go along with a crowd that has been created out of thin air.
That is perfectly described in these two scriptures in Ephesians and Romans:
4:14:
14 So we should no longer be children, tossed about as by waves and carried here and there by every wind of teaching
w by means of the
trickery of men, by means of
cunning in deceptive schemes.'
Romans 12:2:
2 And stop being
molded by this system of things, but be transformed by making your mind over, so that you may prove to yourselves
g the good and acceptable and perfect will of God.
How do you mold clay? You put pressure on it to push the clay in certain directions. We are molded through our eyes with images. Just like Eve was. She "saw that the fruit was desirable to her eyes" and good for eating. Her SIGHT, not her TASTE, got her into trouble. What caught her "sight"?
Perhaps watching Satan
disguised as a snake, eating the fruit and then talking? Then, she thought to herself: "If it can make a snake TALK, then what could it do for ME??"
So, back to the being naked thing. We've had our "norms" shaped and perverted for us. Being naked it natural. Being clothed is not. Being naked should not be shameful. That is taught.
Just my two cents.
They must have been free spirited back in those days, I guess, and appaently not shy.
Cleaned 'em and cooked 'em too. They were very fresh and delicious, from pond to plate.
