The Sin Of Nakedness!
Did
you ever wonder why nakedness was a sin?
About 3000 years after creation
GOD gave The Hebrew people The Torah – The Law, it was meant for all peoples of
all nations but the Hebrews failed in their responsibility to Live by It and
disseminate it to the rest of the world.
In the Torah, Leviticus 18 has a
lot of regulations about nakedness and sex, sometimes the two are related but
not always.
The third time naked or nakedness
is mentioned in the Bible is in The Torah given in Exodus and Leviticus.
The second time naked or nakedness
is mentioned in The Bible is in Genesis 9:20-23, the nakedness of Noah and
GOD’s judgment on Ham for exposing his nakedness.
The first time naked or nakedness
is mentioned in The Bible Genesis 2:23-25 (‛ârôm)* and Genesis 3:7-13 (‛êrôm)*.
I have always understood that
seeing other people naked was a moral issue that was generally fronded upon in
civilized nations; which is why it is such a strong temptation. But it is
deeper than that, in Genesis the first mention of nakedness or nudity is in
2:25 after GOD made Eve, it states, “And they were both naked, the man and his
wife and were not ashamed.” GOD united them in Marriage so that they were one
flesh, and they did not realize they were naked because there was no sin!
In Genesis 3 we see sin and shame
arrive with the knowledge of Good and evil; “So Adam SAID, ‘I heard Your voice
in the Garden and I was afraid because I was naked; and I hid myself.’ JEHOVAH
asked, ‘Who told you that you were naked, have you eaten from the tree of which I told you not
to eat?’ Adam’s response was to blame Eve and so sin, shame and blaming became
part of Marriage.
The reason that nakedness outside
of Marriage is a sin is because it is representative of human rebellion against
GOD and His institution of Marriage. Adam and Eve did not know they were naked
and there was no sexuality associated with their nakedness until Adam sinned!
Pornography started as depicting
the naked human body, it has grown to very gross levels of immorality and
perversion. Many Christians partake of the sin of pornography via television, movies,
books and the internet; not just the hard core pornography but also the soft
core pornography! Watching people other than your spouse or your very young
children who are naked is a sin before JEHOVAH GOD!
If you are a Christian, married or
single and when you see an attritive person of the opposite sex and your
thoughts are sensual or sexual then you are sinning according to JESUS, “You
have heard that it was said of old, ‘You shall not commit adultery!’ But I say
to you that whoever looks at a woman to lust for her has already committed
adultery with her in his heart. If your right eye causes you to sin, pluck it
out and cast it from you; for it is more profitable for you that one of your
members perish, than for your whole body to be cast into hell. And if your
right hand causes you to sin, cut it off and cast it from you; for it is more
profitable for you that one of your members perish, than for your whole body to
be cast into hell.” (Matthew 5:27-30 NKJV)
My paraphrase of this passage of
Scripture, ““You have heard that it was said of old, ‘You shall not commit
adultery!’ But I say to you that whoever looks at another person to lust for them
has already committed sexual immorality with them in their heart. If your right
eye causes you to sin, pluck it out and cast it from you; for it is more
profitable for you that one of your members perish, than for your whole body to
be cast into hell. And if your right hand causes you to sin, cut it off and
cast it from you; for it is more profitable for you that one of your members perish,
than for your whole body to be cast into hell.”
In Revelation 22:15 JESUS lists
those who will not be allowed into Jerusalem during His 1000 year Reign over
the nations of the earth, “But outside are dogs and sorcerers and sexually
immoral and murderers and idolaters and whoever loves and practices a lie.”
In Revelation 21:8 JESUS lists those
who will not be allowed into His Eternal Kingdom (Heaven), “But the cowardly,
unbelieving, abominable, murderers, sexually immoral, sorcerers, idolaters and
all liars shall have their part in the Lake that burns with fire and brimstone,
which is the second death.”
To JEHOVAH GOD this is a very
serious issue, do not be on the wrong side of the sin of nakedness!
*Naked = 6174 (Genesis 2:25)
‛ârôwm or ‛ârôm = nude, either partially or totally:-naked. From 6191
‛âram = a primary root; probably to be (or make) bare; but used only in the
derivative sense (through the idea perhaps of smoothness) to be cunning
(usually in a bad sense):- X very beware, take crafty [counsel], be prudent,
deal subtilly.
Naked = 5903 (Genesis 3:7, 10-11)
‛êyrôm or ‛êrôm = nudity:-naked (ness). From 6191 (Proverbs 19:25;
Isaiah 36:18) ‛âram = a primary root; probably to be (or make) bare; but used
only in the derivative sense (through the idea perhaps of smoothness) to be
cunning (usually in a bad sense):- X very beware, take crafty [counsel], be
prudent, deal subtilly.
Nakedness = 6172 Leviticus 18, 20
‛ervâh = nudity, literality (especially the pudenda) or figuratively (disgrace
or blemish):-nakedness, shame, unclean *-ness). From 6168 (Lamentations 4:21) ‛ârâh
= a primary root; to be (causatively make) bare; hence to empty, pour out,
demolish:-leave destitute, discover, empty, make naked, pour (out), rase,
spread self, uncover.
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