The Naked Garden Today's Three-minute Bible Study Print, Study and Apply Title: The Naked Garden------------------- Date: 4/19/2003 Keywords: “naked" "shame” Welcome to eXXit, the web site designed to help you stand strong in the face of sexual temptation. Passage: Genesis 2:25* The man and his wife were both naked, and they felt no shame. Questions 1. How could Adam and Eve be naked and not feel shame?   2. How can the response to question 1 help us understand the pull of pornography?   Practical help In the Garden of Eden, nakedness was no big deal. Adam and Eve cavorted in the buff without a care in the world. Then sin entered in, our shameful ancestors donned clothes, and the possibility of pornography was born. Pornography plays off of a good to yield a negative. The good is pure nakedness, the physical freedom God meant for people to enjoy in the shelter of the garden. Corrupted by sin, that freedom became the negative known as lust, given modern expression by pornography. Today, our response to such nakedness should follow that of Adam and Eve: to cover it up, to avert our eyes, to never indulge it. Even so, we should remember that God can redeem this twisted good — through unashamedness between husbands and wives in marriage and in the freedom that believers will experience in heaven. Pornography will not have the last word. God will. eXXit homepage Index of three-minute studies Copyright 2003 by eXXit *Scriptures are from The Holy Bible: New International Version, © Copyright 1973, 1978, 1984 by International Bible Society. All rights reserved. ---