From: REXLEX@linac.fnal.gov
Newsgroups: soc.religion.christian
Subject: Re: Nudity - Why be ashamed?
Date: 10 Nov 92 06:51:05 GMT
Article-I.D.: geneva.Nov.10.01.51.04.1992.12326
Organization: FNAL

In article <Nov.8.01.23.37.1992.8986@geneva.rutgers.edu>
ba2cs252@troi.cc.rochester.edu (Leonidas Hepis) writes:
>Joseph H. Buehler writes about nudity and Adam:
>
>>If you read Genesis, you'll see that it didn't even matter  
>>to him until after he sinned that he was naked. [What!!!]
>
>Apparently, before disobeying God, Adam and Eve were both naked 
>and not ashamed.  

I think most people never stop to think what it was like before the fall.  Adam
and Eve were not naked as we think of naked.  I have held, for many years, a
position that only recently has a friend put in print.  It is entitled:

"Adam  Christology as the Exegetical & Theological 
 Substructure of 2 Corinthians 4:7 - 5:21" by Dr. C. Marvin Pate

    A partial "Table of Contents" follows.  In it you will see the theme of the
lost glory of Adam.  It is our belief, based on the exegesis of noted text,
that Adam and Eve were clothed in the shekinah glory of God before the fall. 
They were beings of light and their flesh was only exposed after the moment of
sin.  Adam was not duped in his decision to eat of the fruit.  He had already
seen what the effects were on Eve, but he made a choice to follow his wife and
to suffer the death that God had promised in the "day" that you eat there of. 
Eve was deceived, Adam made a willful decision.
   So what you say.  Well, actually this leads us to Paul's mention of
nakedness and his views on the restoration of that original glory.  As Marv
puts it in ch 5, "My thesis. . . that Jesus' righteous suffering, and Paul's as
well, is to be interpreted in light of the Jewish belief that Adam's glory will
be restored in the age to come to the righteous who presently suffer.  For
Paul, the glory of that promised eschaton has dawned in Christ and is being
extended to his faithful followers.  Thus the two themes of glory and suffering
interwoven in 2 Cor 5:11-21 are best understood against the above Adam
theology."
   So, physical nakedness out side of the marriage, is outside of Gods original
will for us.  Just yesterday I heard on the news that at Berkeley U, that there
was an individual that was coming to class nude.  The courts ruled that it was
NOT lewd and that the University could only regulate it via trespassing laws.
Such is our age.  The Scriptures paint a clear picture, however, on both God's
and the angels vantage of nudity.  -Rex


Chapter Two
Judaism and the Restoration of Adam's Glory
Introduction	
The Glory of God in the LXX	
I.  Qumran	
II.  Wisdom of Solomon
A.  The Lost Glory of Adam	
B.  The Lost Glory of Adam to be Restored
    to the Righteous Who Suffer	
III.  Apocalyptic Judaism
IV.  Rabbinic Materials 	62
  A.  The Lost Glory of Adam
  B.  The Restoration of Adam's Glory to the Righteous Who Suffer

Chapter Three
2 Corinthians 4:7-15: The Lost Glory of Adam Restored 
  by the Righteous Suffering of Christ and Paul
The Text of 2 Cor 4:7-15	 
I.  4:7a: The Restoration of Adam's Lost Glory
  A.  Adam and the Image and Glory of God in Judaism
  B.  Image and Glory in Paul
  C.  The Connection in Judaism between Moses and Adam	
  D.  IV Ezra 4:11 and Wis 7:14 as Parallels to II Cor 4:7	
II.  2 Cor 4:7:b-15: The Restoration of Adam's Glory Through Righteous
Suffering	
  A.  I Cor 15:20-22, 44-49; Rom 5:12-21; Phil 2:5-11
  B.  Righteous Suffering as the Theme of the Exegetical Substructure
     of 2 Cor 4:7b-15	

Chapter Four
2 Cor 4:16 - 5:10 The Restoration of Adam's Glory Through Righteous
Suffering and the "Already"/"Not Yet" Aspects of Paul's Eschatology	107
Introduction	107
The Text of 2 Cor 4:16-5:10	 
I.  The Inner/Outer Man (4:16)	 
II.  Eternal Glory/Temporary Suffering (4:17, 18)	 
III.  Heavenly Building/Earthly Tent (5:1-4a)	 
  A.  gumnov  and Gen 3:7	 
  B.  stenavzomen and Gen. 3:16	 
  C.  ejnduvw and Gen 3:21	 
  D.  Heavenly Building/Earthly Tent (5:1)	 
IV.  The Life of the Spirit/the Earnest of the Resurrection Body	 
  A.  Death (2 Cor 5:4)	 
  B.  Exile (2 Cor 5:6-8)	 
  C.  Judgment (2 Cor 5:9-10)	 

Chapter Five
2 Cor 5:11-21: The Restoration of Adam's Glory Through Christ's
Righteous Suffering Continued and Concluded