Brakeman,
Great point. How strange was knowledge that the first thing Adam and Eve realized was that they were naked and that this was somehow something to be ashamed of.
What could Adam and Eve possibly known of clothing? If you have never known clothing - why be ashamed of being naked?
Interestingly the account of Eden states that they were naked and not ashamed - as if that were something odd. I think we have definitive evidence of the human origins of this story and that it must have been written long after humanity developed the notion that clothing was for covering shame as opposed to merely keeping warm.
That probably puts the account a few thousand years after the events supposedly took place.
Great point. How strange was knowledge that the first thing Adam and Eve realized was that they were naked and that this was somehow something to be ashamed of.
What could Adam and Eve possibly known of clothing? If you have never known clothing - why be ashamed of being naked?
Interestingly the account of Eden states that they were naked and not ashamed - as if that were something odd. I think we have definitive evidence of the human origins of this story and that it must have been written long after humanity developed the notion that clothing was for covering shame as opposed to merely keeping warm.
That probably puts the account a few thousand years after the events supposedly took place.
