Some Naked Facts About Man #2

EYROM

"That word 'Naked' sure conjures up some strange thoughts and feelings.

It's almost a gooey sound, like in 'ooooooh, he's nekked'.

And then you shiver at the thought". Boyd Allen

Does God shiver at the thought? Or is He cool with it?

Later however, Adam and Eve did find themselves naked. No, not just nude, but naked. You know like "ooooh they're nekked" type of naked. Now what happened here? Why did they all of a sudden got all upset by their bodies? Are we talking about the same word here? Did we lose something in the translation?

First, what happened? As you read the story, now in Genesis chapter 3, we find that Eve was off by herself (honeymoon's over?) and she found another species of animal that Adam didn't tell her about. A talking snake. (Hey! I'm getting this out of the bible!) And he told her a few "facts" that she needed to be filled in on. Apparently the snake doesn't think that Adam was that great of a teacher, or she was ready for more education. Whatever, she listened. The snake, a.k.a. Satan the devil, got her interest on her education. And she found that not only was Adam not finishing her education, but God was holding out on her as well! Wow! A shortcut to education! Smart pills that grow on trees! She bit.

But notice that all it said was that the fruit tasted good. And she didn't drop dead and did not notice her nudity. So she decided that maybe Adam should know about this! Ol' br'er snake, he lay low. And ol' br'er Adam bit.

All of a sudden both of their eyes were opened and what an education!

They suddenly found that they were naked. Strong's Concordance (reference #5903) 'Eyrom'. This means nude and naked as well, but taken from another word (#6191) 'Aram' meaning cunning, in a bad sense, to make bare, beware, take crafty, that is: not good.

When God showed up, He was very displeased and said "Who told you that you were naked (Eyrom)?"

If we get the idea that nudity is wrong from Satan, then would we be getting our education from Satan instead of God? God, at the time, did not seem to worry about our physical nudity. Isn't listening to Satan like getting our education from the streets?

Then what was the problem?

They became spiritually naked. With their newly found "knowledge" which was in itself naked, they decided that their bodies too were naked and shameful. That is not the education God wanted them to have.