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So the either / or, actual verses allegorical trees, I think is an unnecessary false dichotomy in some instances in the Bible. It reads to me as actual trees with serious spiritual symbolism associated with them.
Ok, real or metephorical beside the point. I understand. What I don't get is that Adam and Eve were naked and were sexual creatures already. They were already told by God that doing so was good and within his wishes.
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Genesis 1:28 And God blessed them, and God said to them, "Be fruitful and multiply, and fill the earth and subdue it
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And God saw everything that he had made, and behold, it was very good. And there was evening and there was morning, a sixth day.
Now why does it all of a sudden become shamefull to Adam and Eve. It is not God who became ashamed of their nakedness,it is Adam and Eve.
Before knowledge
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Genesis 2:25 the man and his wife were both naked, and were not ashamed.
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Genesis 3:7 Then the eyes of both were opened, and they knew that they were naked.
What gets me is that,even though they knew now they were naked. They had to have known that they were made naked by God. Why does a knowledge of good and evil make being naked evil? Or even shamefull?
Of course this comes from the mind of a nudist