In my Sunday School class I had a guest teacher. He was going over various scriptures and one of them had to do with the sin of Adam and Eve. After they had eaten of the forbidden fruit they had a revelation: They were naked. They had always been naked but for some reason this now made them ashamed.
When I am presented with things I have heard before my mind often looks for a new approach. We were talking about original sin and the fall. I was asking myself, “What would suddenly make them aware that being naked was a problem?” One idea was the beginning of the sex drive. I had another thought that popped into my head.
Adam and Eve were suddenly aware that they were naked. Was this the beginning of puberty?
Blame the human condition on puberty. Think about it. Little children run around naked and don’t think anything about it. Few adults are able to do so. It is around the time of puberty that we get sensitive about out bodies.
Maybe puberty is a result of the Fall in the Garden of Eden.
(Note for heresy hunters: This is speculative meandering, not a statement of doctrine.)
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