Perhaps but the manor how it is depicted in the Bible is quite ridiculous and very culturaly biased. In the Book of Genesis,the knowledge of good and evil is represented in Adam and Eve suddently realising that they are naked and hide their private parts with fig leaves. This clearly demonstrates that culture,not God,inspired the Bible,since in the time and culture of early hebrews,public nudity was very much frowned upon,if not downright illegal. But there is absolutely no reason why Adam or Eve would suddently feel this way at learning to differenciate Good and Evil since God did not consider nudity to be an evil thing. According to the book of Genesis,God created man and woman completely nubile and then declared it was very good. And the Devil,when tempting Eve said that knowing Good and Evil would make her like God,clearly meaning that eating the Apple would grant her GOD's own knowledge of Good and Evil and according to God,nudity is "very good". Nudity is not an evil thing but a natural thing. Wearing cloths is actually the unnatural thing in that sense. There are quite a few tribal civilisations still on the earth that spend their lives completely naked. Cloths were invented not out of a desire for modesty but rather as a protection against the elements or to protect more fragile parts of the anatomy from injuries. They also allowed man to inhabit regions of earth where he could not have dwelled without cloths,such as deserts and cold/polar regions. The very cultural concept of modesty was born out of the habit of wearing cloths,not the other way around. When seen from that angle,Adam and Eve suddently deciding out of the clear blue sky that nudity is evil and thus,conveniantly agreeing with the culture of those who wrote the Bible to begin with is quite suspect and should raise a red flag about the source that inspired its writing.
[This message has been edited by LudvanB, 02-01-2002]
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