It is truly sad.
Can you imagine what that scene looked like before the "temptation"? The two walking, sharing, laughing, playing in the nude. All was perfect. There was no disgust or shame, there they are as God made them. Perfect. Now that scene, no painter could ever come close to conveying that perfection.
I've never bothered trying to imagine it. In all politeness I must say that I think the scene you describe not worth the mental effort. We lost much, much more than "walking, sharing, laughing, playing in the nude".
The real question, the one that goes like an arrow to the true loss, is: Can you imagine a world without sin and death, a world in which all the animals relate to man as if they were our pets, a world in which each man and woman is in personal communion and fellowship with God, a world in which man can wear his original glory? Can you imagine Man ruling over the fish of the sea and the birds of the air, the beasts of the field?
You make it sound like we lost access to a nude beach. You seem, to me, to be focused on what has been lost in the husband-wife relationship, rather than what has been lost to man in his relation to God.
HHHMMMM, and after reading your post again, I see more emphasis on their "clothing" in your last paragraph. Had you put more into the "original" glory part, I would have expounded more on that whole fish of the sea and birds of the air thing. And just to give a heads up- I'm over that whole husband-wife loss of whatever thing too.
Well, in my defense, I did italicize this, in the quotation from Calvin: "...in whom recently the glory of the Divine image was shining...."
Also, the quotation begins with mention of Adam's being "confounded and astonished at his calamity." Was this "calamity" the loss of the freedom to prance about naked?
I'll have to get back to you on that. I don't want to speculate. I'll ask when I see him.
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