Adam and Eve are naked and not ashamed. The text holds that state as significant - a pre-shame existence where their bodies are just bodies, natural and unselfconscious.
I work with abuse survivors, and this verse points to something we're trying to restore - the capacity to be embodied without shame, to exist in the body without constant self-judgment. Shame about nakedness isn't inevitable; it's introduced later. Before the fall, there's just presence.
That doesn't mean nudity, necessarily. It means the absence of shame about existing as a body at all. It's a radical thing to work toward.
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