Just wondering, the implications, of the fact that being Naked, in the Garden, was a good thing...I understand, that with our sinful nature, the troubles that nakedness can promote! But, some thoughts.....
Was any of that restored with Christ, just some of the freedoms maybe....
I heard one guy say a wife should be modest with her husband, and not be seen in the light?????!!!! Even in their own house....how does that sit with Song of Solomon, 7:1 "How beautiful are your feet in sandals, O princes's daughter, The curves of your hips are like jewels, The work of the hands of an artist, Your navel is like a round goblet, Which never lacks mixed wine: Your belly is like a heap of wheat, Fenced about with lilies...."
Which also brings me to, the stumbling argument, If I wasn't married, that above verse would have me stumbling for sure, I am married, and it has me wanting to take the rest of the day off, and even then, it has me coveting, and kind of daydreaming about being the guy in the verse.....so is the Word of God, causing me to stumble.....so I don't know, that, showing a calf, causes somebody to stumble, so must be wrong argument holds......
Not too mention, I've never met a women, that stumbled over a man's legs?
Back to marriage: Is not at least that nakedness, between husband and wife restored? Is nakedness "bad" now....at anytime but in the shower alone?
I'm just trying to see where people's true hang-ups are, yes, modesty is a problem in this culture, but, like has been done with sex, has a normal, good thing, in it's original, correct context, been tainted by man's desire for laws......so that man is putting more "negative" onto nakedness than it deserves, when if fact, we know, that in the garden, Nakedness was good.
As new Creations in Christ, should we have any problem with nakedness per se....I mean, among men, if you're a man, among women, if you're a woman.....
I totally agree, that women showing their legs off is a stumbling block and is pretty much always a "sexual" image to somebody, but, being a surfer, swimmer, Southern California outdoor type person, the making it a law that we should have ankles to neck covered at all times in public just seems out there.
