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Originally Posted by SerenityLives
Just a side note, before Adam and Eve discovered their nakedness, I’m wondering if they had genetalia to begin with, especailly since procreation was not in God’s interest until AFTER the fall. And were Adam and Eve like innicent children who did not know what sex was? or did they romp around in the Garden of Eden not knowing what they were doing? Why did they hide from God? was it because they were naughty and found out what their sexual organs were for? These are a lot of unanswered questions.
And Awareness, if you do indeed start your own website, there may be some lgbtq brothers and sisters and second generation church kids who may join who have previously visited this site but did not feel safe posting on here. For now, they are in this secret facebook group that I am in and there and there are about 20 of them, and I have talked to at least seven of them. I wonder if same sex attractions are immoral, why are there so many of us?
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After God created both Adam and Eve, Genesis 2:24-25 says:
24 That is why a man leaves his father and mother and is united to his wife, and they become one flesh.
25 Adam and his wife were both naked, and they felt no shame.
The uniting and the one flesh is sex. It seems to me that God was interested in procreation before the fall (which didn't occur until Genesis 3:6), so they would have had genitalia before the fall.
They hid from God because they disobeyed Him. Any kid who's disobeyed their parents and got caught knows why they hid!
The shame they felt from their nakedness can be interpreted many ways, and has been. I guess there are two parts to it: shame before each other, and shame before God.
The shame before each other is interesting, given they were a couple, and couples see each other naked. Although I've never discussed it with anyone, I personally concluded that since the sinful fallen nature would be passed on to the human race through procreative sex, that's why the nakedness became shameful -- because it was tied to what would be the cascading devastating effects of the fall. That's just my own thoughts though.
The shame before God is so interesting too. Adam and Eve did what the leadership in the LC does in the face of sin - covered themselves up in an attempt to hide their sin. But that's not what God is about. God wants us to turn to Him with our sin and shame so He can be the one to cover us in a way better than we ever could, which is exactly what He did with Adam and Eve.
People who identify as LGB or T account for approximately 5% of the U.S. population.