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Originally Posted by Igzy
I've thought about this nakedness thing with Adam and Eve and what the overall meaning was. . . .
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Yeah, I know what you mean. We can pull another "it's simply symbolic of their spiritual state" like many before us, including Lee.
We can say it has a different symbolic meaning, like they realized that they were exposed in many ways and the nakedness was simply the most obvious.
We could assert that with a mind now fallen, there was their own realization of how they looked upon each other, therefore a level of wanting to hide — even from each other — due to the beginnings of lust and other related issues.
And any of these could be true, or at least partly so.
But I think you get it right when you say that their knowledge was flawed. And no better way to evidence that than to realize that evil includes the disobedience it took to get the knowledge to know it was evil. I'd be hiding too. I might even look for something a little less important to point to, like nakedness, rather than admitting that I had disobeyed. So faulty logic begets faulty logic.
I heard someone read a very interesting little pit of prose that was supposed to be Adam's very well thought-out response to God concerning the eating from the tree. In essence, he very logically blamed it on the excellent mind that God gave him so that he could ponder and decide that partaking would be a good idea.
And, as has been quoted here all too many times, God made man in His image and we've been returning the favor ever since.