Just who would think that physical nakedness is a sin? When somebody gets naked in front of people, we cringe to hide ourselves from seeing the naked body of the person (except for a few who have totally lost their shame). And even in little children, when we give them a bath, we hurriedly clothe them so as not to expose their bodies (aside from the fact of health reasons) and to end this feeling of shame inside of us. It's that feeling of shame within us to see somebody naked as well as being seen ourselves naked that gives us the thought of sinfulness or obscenity. But it might not have dawned in us that nakedness is sacred. Don't get me wrong. I do not mean that it's alright for us to go naked and go all around for all people to see.
That's not what I meant. Right from the time of creation, God created the first humans naked and to continue existing in this world naked as they live their daily life. In the eyes of God, nakedness is sacred. This remained true today. However, in the eyes of man, it has ceased to be true since the time the first man and woman - Adam and Eve, disobeyed God. Their disobedience to the commands of God on how they should live their life in the Garden of Eden marred their perception of nakedness. The sacredness of man's nakedness is inherent in the commitment of humans to obey his creator. When they disobeyed God, that commitment is broken hence the loss of that sacredness of being naked. Shame overcame them as it is inherent in the act of disobedience to God.
This shame remained with the human race. But the sacredness of nakedness remained as well as it was originally intentioned by God. God's intention for humans is to be in a committed relationship - that relationship between man and woman. It is not a homosexual relationship for such a relationship was totally outside of God's intention. Though we humans have no right to condemn people who are into such kind of relationships, we cannot condone it. It will never be a sacred relationship no matter how man tries to affirm its sacredness. God never ever approves of such kind of relationship.
The nakedness of each one in a homosexual relationship is a sacrilege to God's command about man's exclusive man-woman relationship. In the same token that man and woman who goes naked outside of this original intension of God for a man-woman exclusive and committed relationship is also not sacred at all. What nakedness that has God's approval and blessing which came from that shameful condition after the first man and woman sinned, and which is associated with any adult state (and excludes children's innocent nakedness); is that committed exclusive man and woman relationship that received the blessing of God through the priest or the pastor. This is called marriage. There is no other means that seals and authenticate the thing we call "committed relationship". A simple verbal good-natured well-meant expression of man and woman to each other of "I love you" or "I commit my life to you" is not sufficient to qualify for a committed relationship.
The ultimate authority of God when He blessed the first man and woman to live together flows through the authentic churches today that upholds the same commandment of God on how man should live in a relationship. This kind of a committed man-woman relationship that received the blessing of the priest or the pastor from these authentic churches is the only sacred relationship that warrants sacredness of nakedness of one person before another.
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