"I don't know if it is the Lord after me or the devil after me," she told Love. "I just feel if Jesus came back and saw me, he'd be embar-ras-sed."Ĭhristian churches have long had mixed feelings about the human body, at once celebrating it as being created in God's image and at the same time espousing modesty to protect against sinful urges of fallible human beings. The biblical foundation goes back to the account of Adam and Eve in Genesis, where public nudity is associated with the first sin. In the creation account in Genesis 2, nudity was part of the idyllic state in the Garden of Eden: "And the man and his wife were both naked, and were not ashamed."īut after they eat from the forbidden tree of knowledge, Adam attempts to hide his nakedness from God. "And the Lord God made for Adam and his wife garments of skins and clothed them," according to Genesis 3:21. In the Fig Leaf Forum, a newsletter for "Bible-believing" Christian nudists, John Kundert writes that Adam was hiding from God out of fear, not shame at his nakedness.
He also contends that God clothed Adam as a loving act brought about by the physical necessity of life outside the garden.
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