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Nudity is being with nature , it is so refreshing and there is nothing wrong being nude or a nudist .There should be more of it , as my next door neigbour ( who is a 83 year old lady )would say , its only skin .If there was more of it around children , there would be less trouble. Naturist looks like you and I and come from all walks of life. You will find it to be a relaxing lifestyle that is free of the daily stress we all experience. Naturist groups like naturistmingle.com are looking for people who are open minded and want to enjoy the company of others of a like mind.

Comment by Claudia on 10/07/08 at 7:24 pm

As pointed out elsewhere; murder, rape, incest, violent assault, theft, menacing and intimidation, exploitation etc. are all natural as well. At least some of these are precipitated by natural physical attraction and natural promiscuity combined with natural jealousy and natural posessiveness, to all of which we may add a need for revenge which is only natural. I am sure that Claudia will assure us that her gatherings are completely positive and free of social tensions. I can’t fully imagine it, and in a way I am glad I can’t.

I am only going to guess that although there are no private parts in her group per se, the actual usage of the various private parts for the three basic functions I can think of remains unnaturally private. If so, that is a good departure point for reflection. A general goal of religious discipline is to acknowledge that humans can apply their talents to improve on the kinds of societies based on nature. ‘Pre-fall-fundamentalist Christians’ sound like a kind of Trojan horse for neo-Paganism.

Comment by Ben Plonie on 10/08/08 at 2:53 am

Nothing new, about every other century a group of Christians takes the Gospel very literally. Not a bad idea, if you ask me, unfortunately the world is still in a fallen stage so things are not as simple as they could be. If modern day society would treat the tongue as a “private part” we would be all much better off.

Comment by Jochen on 10/11/08 at 2:20 am

After the defeat of Nazism, they invent post-war terrorism. 50 years after the Holocaust, details leak out of their own involvement in it. Now Brad Greenberg takes it upon himself to threaten practising Christians.

Comment by Richard Comaish on 10/12/08 at 7:02 am

Brad Greenberg is threatening? Just because he flies a black missile-equipped helicopter on orders from the Elders doesn’t make him a threat!

btw would that be Richard of ‘Reclaim the Swastika’ Comaish?

Now for a brain bender… if there are a hundred times more antisemites than Jews in the world (a reasonable figure), why is it that we can go for long periods of time not thinking about antisemites, while you cannot go for a day without thinking about Jews?

Comment by Ben Plonie on 10/12/08 at 8:07 am

Ben Plonie, I am a practicing naturist, and I can assure you that, while no human organization is perfect, our naturist gatherings tend to be amazingly free from both sexual and social tensions.  Really, sexual activity is no more likely at a naturist event than at the average Christian church service.

Comment by jochanaan on 10/13/08 at 2:46 pm

I have no reason to doubt your word on that. I would only point out that to that extent they are not stricly speaking natural, and further that nature is not a model for human society and behavior. And that the goal of spiritually-based discipline is not to be unnatural but to align with the supernatural. I realize that some people do not allow for a supernatural existence but then some people are obtunded and color blind as well. The Judeo-spiritually-based guide for social behavior does mandate the wearing of clothes most of the time, and all the time between sexes in the limited non-sexual situations.

Comment by Ben Plonie on 10/15/08 at 8:41 pm

If you are offended by nudity, you are disrespecting God’s greatest creation.

Comment by Michael E. Maconnell on 10/22/08 at 8:44 pm

Also, I wonder what God was wearing when He walked and talked with Adam And Eve in the Garden of Eden.

Comment by Michael E. Maconnell on 10/22/08 at 8:46 pm

Where in the comments above do you detect ‘offense’ or disrespect? Everything in my comments has to do with comparative social benefits and the stated mandates within the source of Christianity.

The question about what God was wearing reflects a primitive mindset. God is not detectable by the physical senses, nor does God walk and talk in the conventional sense other than in euphemisms used to represent God’s interaction and communication. If I gave you the benefit of any doubt it would be to refer to Gen 2:8 which has been clumsily translated as walking but the evocative Hebrew for it clearly says that God’s voice was traveling on the breeze, using the root for walking but not the grammatical form for it.

Comment by Ben Plonie on 10/22/08 at 9:15 pm

When the wright brothers flew they were criticized and told “If man were meant to fly, he’d have wings!“ Well if man were meant to be nude, he’d be born that way!“ Oops, guess what… we were! OH! Maybe somebody should have told Isaiah that God lied to him, and he should not have wandered town to town preaching the word of God in the nude for 3 years…

Comment by Walter M Green III on 10/25/08 at 8:39 am

The classical Jewish teaching on that is that Isaiah wore some torn rags rather than be stark naked, but be that as it may he did not go around preaching nudity. You might check out the next sentence Isaiah 20:4. So shall the king of Assyria lead the captivity of Egypt and the exile of Cush, youths and old men, naked and barefoot, with bare buttocks, the shame of Egypt.

And similarly Micah 2:11 Pass ye away, O inhabitant of Saphir, in nakedness and shame; the inhabitant of Zaanan is not come forth; the wailing of Beth-ezel shall take from you the standing-place thereof.

And lest we forget Gen 3:7 And the eyes of them both were opened, and they knew that they were naked; and they sewed fig-leaves together, and made themselves girdles.

And I don’t know what they said to the Wright brothers but they may well have been inspired by Gen 1:28 blessing Adam to dive with the fishes and to join the birds of the sky.

It’s a free universe, go naked if you wish but let’s not make it God’s will.

Comment by Ben Plonie on 10/26/08 at 1:16 am

Ben,
You mention it’s a free ‘Universe’ / aka Country (USA), but yet you have been bashing this church’s interpretation of the Bible and their right to be free and naked.  This is not the first nude church service, and everyone attending it, in the Neatherlands, knew there would be a nude service and that it was in a safe legal designated location.  As it is there right to do so, especially in the Neatherlands.  The Europeans have a much more relaxed attitude toward nudity, then the predominately prudish Americans.

You mention not making nudity God’s will.  This church is only interpreting the Bible (Perhaps the King James Version, and/or the Book of Thomas) as they see fit.  If you wish to debate the Bible in relation to Nudity, I suggest you take your discussion here ( http://naturist-christians.org/ ).

Brad trying to be funny mentions the Catholics.  Brad might be interested to know what Pope John Paul II says about nudity:

“Because God created it, the human body can remain nude and uncovered and preserve intact its splendor and its beauty.“
—Pope John Paul II
Ref: http://www.naturist-christians.org/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=48&mode;=&order=0&thold=0

Interpretation of the Bible (and what ever version you reference) is of course your right as it is ours.  Regarding the mentioned Isaiah 20:4 (The shame they would suffer was not due to being naked, but rather not being able to care for their own bodies).  Many other Biblical references regarding Nudity are listed below.

Nudity in the Bible:
A question that is often asked, is does God approve of nudity? We believe He does, in fact that’s the founding principal behind this website. Through the lists of scripture below, we aim to show that nudity was an everyday part of life in Biblical times, in fact one of the disciples fished without clothing in front of Jesus.  Ref: http://www.naturist-christians.org/modules.php?name=Supporting_Scriptures

I suggest that you are attempting to influence the readership here, of your interpretation of the Bible, as evidence that Nudity is bad.  I counter that point with the many extensive comments and research above that non-sexual Nudity is ok as stated in the Bible.

I’m sure that you won’t change your mind, as we won’t change ours.  And I don’t mean any ‘offense’ or disrespect.  Everything in my comments has to do with comparative social benefits and the stated mandates within the source of Christianity.

I would ask that you and other naysayers leave these God fearing good people alone to practice their religion as they see fit, and take your Biblical / Nudity debate to the site above.  I would ask that you keep an open mind and read the many references at http://www.naturist-christians.org/ before you post opinions similar to the above comments so that you are not considered offensive.

Peace in Christ….Mark

Comment by Mark on 10/27/08 at 7:02 am

It’s an intellectual discussion initiated by the Brad the Blogger, and everything I have said is on the intellectual plane; not emotional; not legal and not moral. Right under the article it says: “We welcome your feedback.“ Well, that’s my feedback. I don’t agree that I have bashed anyone and especially not their rights; my comments on review have been mild, fact-based and neutral. It is some kind of satisfaction to me to work out my thoughts and express them, and if they make sense to anyone else to influence them. That’s what blogs are about, and I am just as happy to discuss my points with you, although you seem just to be trying to get me to stop thinking and commenting.

According to the article, it is not just some guys on a distant foreign blog who are not leaving these good people alone to practice their religion, it was the non-American, non-prudish, relaxed European Dutch Christians who flooded them with threatening phone calls and emails. Why not, in the same way you ask me, take your advocacy to them, locally?

Of course I think I am right about my views, and this one is rather easier for me to make points on than some others. You say “nudity was an everyday part of life in Biblical times”. No kidding. It’s an everyday part of my own life and everyone else’s, in a pragmatic if not in a cultural way. In private, in intimacy, in a medical office, in a locker room at the gym, in a ritual bath. Not public nudity however. The Biblical interpretations on that website are ridiculous. I am not a Christian nor an expert on Christian values, but the New Testament personalities and their followers would have at least physically and culturally been part of the larger Judean society. Life in those ancient times may well have been even more pragmatic about nudity than today but routine public nudity was strictly a Greek practice or a Hellenist one among Biblical societies. There were plenty of leftover Hellenists in those days. Talmudic discussion (I know Christians do not credit it as applicable to them but it WAS contemporaneous with the events of the NT) also contains no blithe public nudity. Neither the Bible nor the Talmud is otherwise shy about nudity or sex as a topic.

As for Adam before the Fall, fine; everything after that is after it. It is clear that something permanently changed with the Fall, firstly that clothing became necessary to maintain the distinctive human element in pride and dignity and privacy. Almost every Biblical reference to nudity is associated with shame and degredation; not as you say due to being naked, but rather as you don’t say due to their compromising on their humanity. A human who is not the crown of creation is no more than the king of beasts, and I don’t need to take the time to illustrate how transcendant or how bestial humans can be.

You might say that a distinctly human capacity is that of fooling ourselves. Or more to the point, you might not know that in the verse (Gen. 3:1) that states “Now the serpent was more subtle than any beast of the field which the LORD God had made.“, the word for ‘subtle’ (or also translated as ‘clever’) derives from exactly the same Hebrew root as the word for ‘naked’ in 3:7 just six verses later. Wow! In obeying the serpent rather than God the humans actually internalized some quality which downgraded their humanity and introduced death to the species.

Comment by Ben Plonie on 10/27/08 at 9:18 pm

Well, a lot of opinion about public and private nudity.  So what?  I have found that some people are innately more modest than others and others are innately less modest than the majority.  Modesty itself is, of course, entirely culturally driven so that a woman raised in a typical Christian household in the U.S.A. thinks nothing of prancing about a beach in a tiny bikini and does everything she can to be sexually attractive at all times (makeup, etc.), raised in the Mideast, she might hesitate to go without headscarf (but she’ll do everything she can to look beautiful within the limits allowed by her culture.  Both women will adamantly defend the morality of their fashions and both will also adamantly argue that it is their choice and that it makes them freer.  However, ones choice of modesty in fasion, as one’s choice of religion, is primarily determined by one’s culture and by one’s family within that culture.  Well, if one determines to dress in a manner inconsistent with the modesty norms (or other norms) of one’s family, one can expect to have to bear with whatever level of ostracism the family chooses to apply; but the person should be expected to not be physically threatened and harmed by other family members for their choices; indeed, they should expect to be protected from such harm by the authorities.  On society’s level, one might expect a degree of ostracism from the society for bucking its clothing mores, but can not one expect to be protected from physical abuse by others.  Why do societies have to jail and/or fine people (or worse) merely for not wearing clothes or for wearing too few clothes? 
I like to be naked.  It is not an activity, it is a state of being.  Yet I can be punished by law just for sitting quietly on a beach if I happen not to be dressed “appropriately”,; yet seeing nakedness has never harmed any onlooker.  Any offense taken is totally culturally derived, which is why, for instance, National Geographic has always been able to publish images of naked Africans, but not pictures of naked Europeans on nude beaches (until very recently).  I find being naked to be spiritually uplifting, for it reminds me that I am a spirit in possession of a body, not the body itself. 

  A University of Michigan Study determined that the happiness of people is higher in free societies and that the United States, in social freedoms and in happiness, ranked well below Denmark and other freer societies.  Denmark, which topped the happiness list, allows for nudity on all beaches except a very few. Are most Danes nude on the beaches? No.  But they have the freedom to be so and many are.  Why make the wearing of clothes or nudity an issue?

In a free society, there is no legal code for the wearing of clothes! In private homes, churches, and businesses,of course, a code can be established as these areas are not free.  The congregation can determine for itself what clothing, if any will be required; a family can determine for itself what is appropriate in its house; a business owner should make the determination for his business.  Any of them can even decide that clothing is forbidden (as some nudist camps do.)

In a public venue, neither clothing nor nudity can be required.  To argue that a government has the right to determine what is acceptable in clothing is to argue that the worse of them, say the Taliban, is perfectly legitimate in imposing the full burqua upon women.

I don’t care how stifling you dress yourself or what clothing rules you place on me should I visit your home, church, or business.  Just don’t support laws that impose your fashions in the public arena.

Comment by Matthew Kerwin on 10/30/08 at 9:04 am

I’m Naked and neither I, my god, or my friends could care less.  That is in truth what matters.  I do not bare myself..I am only who I am and they are themselves.  That is in itself the higher power that makes us uneque in the world. No religeon specifically states dress or undress.  It’s faith that dictates all men’s (or womans) actions.  My faith is clear and unsounding..With all your questions..Perhapse you should question your own FAITH rather than a simple written manuscript that was intended for good.

Comment by T White on 11/22/08 at 12:55 pm

God, Shmod. I don’t recall right now if I have mentioned a news item of a few years ago about a New England college town noted for its easygoing attitude about nudity among the students. The town did not act as long as coeds were coasting around topless on bicycles, but when an old kook from the Midwest came to town and started walking around naked action was taken.

Comment by Ben Plonie on 11/22/08 at 10:00 pm

SCRIPTURES INVOLVING NAKEDNESS IN THE BIBLE

(Genesis 2:25, 3:11) God never told Adam and Eve they were naked.

(Genesis 3:7, 3:11) Man clothed himself after he sinned, because of fear and as a self-righteous act to redeem himself.

(Genesis 1:31) God declared His handiwork, including the nude human figure, is “very good”.

(Micah 1:8 ) Prophets were known for prophesying in the nude. (See below.)

(1 Samuel 19:23-24) Saul, Samuel and all those who went before him, prophesied naked “all day long” after the Holy Spirit of God came on them. (see quotation below)

(Isaiah 20:2-4) Isaiah was commanded by God to go naked before everyone for 3 years as a sign. God who hates sin does not command people to something sinful or wrong. (see quotation below)

(2 Samuel 6:14) David danced naked, i.e. wearing a vest (or “linen ephod”) before all Israel as an “act of worship” to God. Michal claimed he was acting as a “vulgar man would,“ but was cursed for her rebukes.

(Mark 14:51) A follower of Jesus fled naked from the Garden of Gethsemane during the arrest. He had come out to see it, dressed only in a light linen night covering.

(John 19:23) Jesus was hung on the cross completely naked, the way Romans crucified all their victims.

(John 21:7) Peter, one of the twelve disciples of Jesus, fished naked, and was doing so when Jesus came to him after he was resurrected. It was customary for people to work without the encumbrance of clothing in those days.

(Galatians 5:16; Titus 1:15) A transformed, purified heart is stronger than clothing, to keep you free from lust and sin.

(Matt 25:41-43) “Then he will say to those on his left, ‘Depart from me, you who are cursed, into the eternal fire prepared for the devil and his angels. 42 For I was hungry and you gave me nothing to eat, I was thirsty and you gave me nothing to drink, 43 I was a stranger and you did not invite me in, I needed clothes and you did not clothe me, I was sick and in prison and you did not look after me.“

There is no sin in being homeless, hungry, thirsty or even naked here. The sin is in seeing a need and choosing not to fill it. Those who were naked were so because of poverty. It is similar to our homeless people today.
 
 

 
  SCRIPTURES THAT SUPPORT NATURISM

Gen 1:31 “and God saw ALL that He had made, and it was very good.“

Gen 2:25 “and they were naked and felt no shame ...“

Exodus 22:26-27 “If ever you take your neighbour’s garment in pledge, you shall restore it to him before the sun goes down; for that is his only covering, it is his mantle for his body; in what else shall he sleep?“

God’s focus here is on the man’s comfort when he sleeps in the cool of the evening rather than on the fact that he might be naked during the daylight hours.

1 Sam 19:23-24 “and he went thither to Naioth in Ramah: and the Spirit of God was upon him also, and he went on, and prophesied, until he came to Naioth in Ramah. 24 And he stripped off his clothes also, and prophesied before Samuel in like manner, and lay down naked all that day and all that night. Wherefore they say, Is Saul also among the prophets?“

The sense of the story is that public nudity was common and expected of the Hebrew prophets, and even served as a standard professional practice.

Isaiah 20:2-4 “at that time the LORD spoke through Isaiah son of Amoz. He said to him, “Take off the sackcloth from your body and the sandals from your feet.“ And he did so, going around stripped and barefoot. 3 Then the LORD said, “Just as my servant Isaiah has gone stripped and barefoot for three years, as a sign and portent against Egypt and Cush, 4 so the king of Assyria will lead away stripped and barefoot the Egyptian captives and Cushite exiles, young and old, with buttocks bared-to Egypt’s shame.“

Isaiah, the prophet, was commanded by God to go naked for three years as a witness against Egypt, of the shame they would suffer for not obeying God, and God would not command someone to sin. The shame they would suffer was not due to being naked, but rather not being able to care for their own bodies.

Matt 6:25-34 Jesus says, 25 “Therefore I say to you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat or what you will drink; nor about your body, what you will put on. Is not life more than food and the body more than clothing? 26 Look at the birds of the air, for they neither sow nor reap nor gather into barns; yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not of more value than they? 27 Which of you by worrying can add one cubit to his stature? 28 “So why do you worry about clothing? Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow: they neither toil nor spin; 29 and yet I say to you that even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these. 30 Now if God so clothes the grass of the field, which today is, and tomorrow is thrown into the oven, will He not much more clothe you, O you of little faith? 31 Therefore do not worry, saying, ‘What shall we eat?‘ or ‘What shall we drink?‘ or ‘What shall we wear?‘ 32 For after all these things the Gentiles seek. For your heavenly Father knows that you need all these things. 33 But seek first the kingdom of God and His righteousness, and all these things shall be added to you.“

Mt 21:8 “And a very great multitude spread their clothes on the road;“

Lk 12:22-24 “Then Jesus said to his disciples: “Therefore I tell you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat; or about your body, what you will wear. 23 Life is more than food, and the body more than clothes. 24 Consider the ravens: They do not sow or reap, they have no storeroom or barn; yet God feeds them. And how much more valuable you are than birds!“

Lk 12:27-28 “Consider how the lilies grow. They do not labour or spin. Yet I tell you, not even Solomon in all his splendour was dressed like one of these. 28 If that is how God clothes the grass of the field, which is here today, and tomorrow is thrown into the fire, how much more will he clothe you, O you of little faith!“

Rom. 14:14 “...I am fully convinced that nothing is unclean of itself. But if someone considers something unclean then for him it is unclean.“

Col 2:23 “Such regulations indeed have the appearance of wisdom, with their self-imposed worship, their false humility and their harsh treatment of the body, but they lack any value in restraining sensual indulgence.“

2 Cor 5:17 “If anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation”

1 Tim 4:4 “everything created by God is good and nothing is to be rejected if it is received with thanksgiving…“

Tit 1:15 “To the pure all things are pure, but to those who are corrupted and do not believe, nothing is pure.“
 
 

 
  FURTHER SCRIPTURAL SUPPORT IS EVIDENCED IN THE FACT THAT….

In 1 Timothy, he gives instructions as to HOW we should dress, not THAT we should dress. It’s a fine line, but it’s quite distinct. To give another example, he gives many directions as to HOW we are to treat slaves; but he doesn’t anywhere say THAT we should have slaves. See the difference?

Rev 3:17 “You say, ‘I am rich; I have acquired wealth and do not need a thing.‘ But you do not realize that you are wretched, pitiful, poor, blind and naked.‘“

In these last two verses, obviously clothing doesn’t even cover your spiritual nakedness.

Rev 3:4,5,18; 4:4; 6:11; 7:9,13,14
“White robes or garments” - Clean, white clothing in the book of Revelation is consistently a symbol of religious and moral purity, especially in the face of persecution (see 3:18; 4:4; 6:11; 7:9, 13), while soiled or disheveled clothing, or no clothing at all, is a symbol of religious and moral impurity and shame (see 3:17-18; 16:15).
 
 

 
  WHAT THEN ARE WE INSTRUCTED TO CLOTHE OURSELVES IN?

Rom 13:14 “Rather, clothe yourselves with the Lord Jesus Christ, and do not think about how to gratify the desires of the sinful nature.“

2 Cor 5:2-4 “Meanwhile we groan, longing to be clothed with our heavenly dwelling, 3 because when we are clothed, we will not be found naked. 4 For while we are in this tent, we groan and are burdened, because we do not wish to be unclothed but to be clothed with our heavenly dwelling, so that what is mortal may be swallowed up by life.“

Gal 3:26-27 “You are all sons of God through faith in Christ Jesus, 27 for all of you who were baptized into Christ have clothed yourselves with Christ.“

Col 3:12 “Therefore, as God’s chosen people, holy and dearly loved, clothe yourselves with compassion, kindness, humility, gentleness and patience.“

1 Tim 2:9-10 “I also want women to dress modestly, with decency and propriety, not with braided hair or gold or pearls or expensive clothes, 10 but with good deeds, appropriate for women who profess to worship God.“ Dressing modestly, in this case, means “don’t dress up” in order to show off.

1 Pet 3:3 “Do not let your adornment be merely outward-arranging the hair, wearing gold, or putting on fine apparel, 4 rather let it be the hidden person of the heart, with the incorruptible beauty of a gentle and quiet spirit, which is very precious in the sight of God.“

Rev 19:8 “And to her it was granted to be arrayed in fine linen, clean and bright, for the fine linen is the righteous acts of the saints.“
 
 

 
  CLOTHES DURING BIBLICAL TIMES

In Greek (New Testament era) the common garment is called a himation. The himation was typically the only and single garment owned by the common majority in those times (recall the Law of Moses commandment against keeping a debtor’s garment, Exodus 22:26-27). More wealthy persons also could own a chiton, made of linen. In the Old Testament, wealthy persons and royalty also possessed multiple garments. The garment industry slowly developed in the ancient Near East over the period between 4,000 BC to the time of Christ, as the population increased, and the economy made it feasible. Clothing was worn for warmth, to show that a man had married a woman (Ezek 16:7-8 ), and to show prestige (as in Joseph’s coat of many colors), but not to hide “private parts.“ That came later with the teaching of the Gnostics and later, Augustine.

Historically, underwear as we understand it first came into general use only about 200 years ago (see The Importance of Wearing Clothes by Lawrence Langner, 1991 edition, chapter 16). Thus, lacking underwear, when people removed their himation (and chiton if they had one) they would inevitably have been totally naked.

Comment by Paul on 11/23/08 at 10:36 am

Coming a little late to the discussion I see. Thanks for cutting and pasting from some website, not. As I said, your whole thesis is ridiculous. As a non-Christian, I am not concerned with your quotations from anything past the Jewish scriptures alone and I have handled some of those above, especially from Greek-influenced societies, but just for illustration I will deal with the first of your quotes.

You say: “Genesis 3:7, 3:11) Man clothed himself after he sinned, because of fear and as a self-righteous act to redeem himself.“

But in Genesis 3:21 “And the LORD God made for Adam and for his wife garments of skins, and clothed them.“

I said: “Almost every Biblical reference to nudity is associated with shame and degredation”

Your list of nonsense is fine for anyone who is ignorant of Biblical text and values, and too lazy to look them up for himself. Which is probably most people, so nice try. I still note that nudist camps are going extinct for the reason I noted above: Young people are not joining and nobody wants to look at what’s left.

Comment by Ben Plonie on 11/23/08 at 11:20 am

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