Its so unfortunate that the nude movement has even crept into the church.Many People today masquerade as Christians and teach that there is nothing wrong in worshiping completely naked.They even twist Gods word to justify their actions.They claim that since Adam and Eve were naked and unashamed in the Garden of Eden,We Christians shouldn't be ashamed of our nakedness.
What these fools are willingly ignorant is that Adam and eve weren't naked" flesh" wise in the garden of Eden.I cor 15: 44 says:"It is sown a natural body; it is raised a spiritual body.. There is a natural body, and there is a spiritual body."Adam and eve didn't possess a natural body but a spiritual body in Eden.So using them to justify nakedness is blasphemy.
The nakedness referred to in genesis is the nakedness of the soul i.e man had no glory of his own (hence was naked spiritually)but was only conscious of the glory of his maker which covered his eyes from being conscious of himself.As soon as he disobeyed he ceased to see God and now saw himself with no glory.That's why he became ashamed of himself and tried to clothe himself with his own glory(is 30:1).That's the same way the world today tries to clothe themselves with their own glory :their own degrees, their own jobs their own ambitions etc all in attempt to glorify the self instead of stripping themselves of their so called glory and putting on Christ (Romans 13:14).
Man is a soul:
Man is a soul the Bible says.(gen 2:7)The body is just the temple of the soul.The real man is the soul within the body of man.After the fall ,a natural body was given to man by God as a means of expressing the soul in a material world.(interacting with his environment)That's why the ancestor of any action is the thought not the body.I.e A man cannot kill,have sex or love without it originating in his mind.
The bodies we posses today are given to us as coverings for the soul.Gen 3:21 says:"Unto Adam also and to his wife did the LORD God make coats of skins, and clothed them".
The"skin" here is the body of skin we posses.Man had a spiritual body in spiritual Eden so after the fall man needed a new body to adapt to his fallen environment hence the need for a "clothe"of skins so he could adapt to his new environment.Job 10:11 confirms this:"Thou(God) hast clothed me with skin and flesh, and hast fenced me with bones and sinews".
You see from the above verse that God clothes us with skin and flesh.Also2 Corinthians 5:2 For in this we groan, earnestly desiring to be clothed upon with our house(body) which is from heaven:
Because he gave us an earthly body to be able to adapt to an earthly environment doesn't mean he demands us to move around like dogs and pigs.He demands that we be clothed decently and modestly.That's what distinguishes us from beasts.We are not natural but spiritual beings.Jesus categorically stated the need to be clothed when he said: in Matt 6:30 "Wherefore, if God so clothe the grass of the field, which to day is, and to morrow is cast into the oven, shall he not much more "clothe you", O ye of little faith? "
Here are the websites of some so called "churches that teach the nudity doctrine:
http://nudistchurch.nfshost.com/
http://www.experiencegrace.com/Pastor_Jeff_Bowman.html
http://thefirstnudistchurchoftheinternet.com/
http://www.naturist-christians.org/index.php
http://www.geocities.com/greg_pc/
http://www.naturismfitz.com/about_nf.shtml#religion
http://x.webring.com/hub?ring=christiansinnudi
http://www.figleafforum.com/
http://www.cnvillage.org/