Remember the tree of the fruit of the knowledge of good and of evil?
How many have actually stopped to think of the entire meaning of the commandment to not eat from that tree? And just how did breaking that commandment affect the course of events bringing us to the point we are today. Ge:2:17: But of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, thou shalt not eat of it: for in the day that thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die. The Hebrew meaning meant that dieing thou shall die, or in modern language meaning they will age to death.
The point here is that at the time that Eve and then Adam ate from the tree of the fruit of the knowledge of good and evil, thy were immediately changed to be spiritually tuned to the influence of the knowledge of good from God, as well as the influence of the knowledge of evil from Satan. As scripture further states that after they ate the forbidden fruit fear of the naked truth fell upon them and out of their fear they sought to cover themselves with leaves as camouflage, and hide in the trees.
Ge:3:8: And they heard the voice of the LORD God walking in the garden in the cool of the day: and Adam and his wife hid themselves from the presence of the LORD God amongst the trees of the garden. The fear and idea of covering themselves was from the influence of Satan from the knowledge of the evil side of the tree; it becomes obvious for when confronted by God Adam was asked “who told you that you were naked?” God would not ask this if the inspiration to do so came from the Knowledge of good from God.
Thus the first evil thought inspired by Satan was for God's prized creations made in the image and likeness of God to cover God's image, as a prime and premier gesture of Satan's grand entry and ability to influence the minds of all men and women. Ge:3:10: And he said, I heard thy voice in the garden, and I was afraid, because I was naked; and I hid myself. Ge:3:11: And he said, Who told thee that thou wast naked? Hast thou eaten of the tree, whereof I commanded thee that thou shouldest not eat?
The first evil deed that Satan did after acquiring the ability to spiritually influence mankind of the knowledge of evil was to cause them to think to cover the very image of God, a heinous act being the most evil and pain inflicting thing possible to do at that time, and in the face of God Almighty the loving creator of all things. A painful infliction that Satan has continued to carry on even until this present day and time by all those he can still influence to do so. Yes we hear the claim that God soon did clothed Adam and Eve Himself.
Ge:3:21: Unto Adam also and to his wife did the LORD God make coats of skins, and clothed them. The Hebrew word for clothed is; “labash” 3847 labash (law-bash'); or labesh (law-bashe'); a primitive root; properly, wrap around, i.e. (by implication) to put on a garment or clothe (oneself, or another), literally or figuratively: KJV-- (in) apparel, arm, array (self), clothe (self), come upon, put (on, upon), wear. The idea of being like sheep or bear skin coats and pants would be great to use for a cushion to lay on, but not likely to wear in the area they were in as it was a near tropical climate.
However animal skins in the form of just a hide could be used for sleeping on, or as shelter from the sun as well as the cold or rain, thus never being intended to hide the genital area of people, especially in the presents of just the husband and wife, as there were no other inhabitance at that time on earth. Could you imagine the diaper rash a baby could get by wearing cowhide diapers? The point is God never influenced mankind to ever cover the image of God the creator.
Later the animal skin coverings were called a mantle; 4598 me` iyl (meh-eel'); from 4603 in the sense of covering; a robe (i.e. upper and outer garment): KJV-- cloke, coat, mantle, robe. ***. me` iym. See 4578. ***. me` iyn (Aramaic). See 4577. Thus goat skins were a common source of mantles for the working class of people to put over them as a covering to keep them warm and sheltered from the elements, and the goat meat is still a staple food even today.
The fishers coat that the nudist fisherman Peter girded was likely to have been made from goat skins as being; 1903 ependutes (ep-en-doo'-tace); from 1902; a wrapper, i.e. outer garment: KJV-- fisher's coat. The point here is that although one has a animal skin cloak known as a outer garment, does not in fact mean that they had to be wearing it, nor any under garment, as we know Adam and Even did not have such, nor did the nudist fisherman Peter the disciple, however even a nudist will use a hide for an umbrella in the rain.
Seeing all this we can easily assess the fact that Satan is still at large and on top of pushing his first and foremost evil spiritual influence, thus continuing to influence people to think that covering the true image of God as being a good idea. However nothing could be further from the truth, for seeing the naked unashamed image of God is when we see each other naked, free from body shame and having always the faith and confidence that we who do whole heartedly practice Christian Naturism, are the true representatives not following Satan's desire to cover over the true image of God according to His will in creation.
The fruit of the knowledge of good and evil is now as it was then, and the good comes with the bad, as that one tree has the fruit of both good and evil, meaning it is an open door to the things that are good and to the things that are evil. We when asking Jesus to be the leader of our lives will guide us as to how to discern the difference between the good and bad fruits of the tree, and bring us to everlasting life with Him and the God who created it all.
Jesus said; Lu:9:26: For whosoever shall be ashamed of me and of my words, of him shall the Son of man be ashamed, when he shall come in his own glory, and in his Father's, and of the holy angels. Jesus is God in the flesh, he died on the cross naked unashamed the moment he bought us for a price, freeing us from all our sins. We having a body like His then should share in his example, thus being unashamed of still being in the image of God when we are naked and free from any shame, let us not be caught as being ashamed of the image of God.
Recapping; original sin was the eating of the forbidden fruit; the original evil was that of Satan who after seeing Eve then Adam eating the forbidden fruit, influenced the covering of God's image. Adam and Eve did the original sin, Satan did the original evil. Today Satan is going full steam at convincing who ever he can to cover God’s image, any where, any place, at any cost. Today original sin no longer exists for those of us who are in Christ Jesus, meaning that what God made in his image and likeness is intended to be best naked unashamed, because God does not change. Mal:3:6: For I am the LORD, I change not; therefore ye sons of Jacob are not consumed.
You said :"... as that one tree has the fruit of both good and evil, meaning it is an open door to the things that are good and to the things that are evil. We when asking Jesus to be the leader of our lives will guide us as to how to discern the difference between the good and bad fruits of the tree, and bring us to everlasting life with Him and the God who created it all."
The tree in the Garden was not a tree of good and evil in and of itself, but a tree of the knowledge of good and evil. According to Jesus a tree can't produce more than one kind of fruit- it has to be good or bad (Matt 7:17 and 18).
I've even seen the idea given that there was absolutely nothing special about that tree at all, compared to the other trees in the Garden, except for the fact that God had told Adam and Eve not to eat of it. Eating the fruit didn't change them, rather their disobeying God.
I do agree that once they ate from that tree they knew the differance between good and evil, but the tree itself did not produce both good and evil. I think that's what you were saying, but I could be wrong...
If you want to read a good telling of how the whole thought process of obeying vs. not obeying could play out read the book "Perelandra" by C.S. Lewis. It's a interesting telling of another "Garden of Eden" tale thinly disguised as science fiction. As with all C.S. Lewis writing, though, it can be a bit tricky to read sometimes. Oh, and by the way- all the main characters but one are completely naked throughout the entire book, excepting the first two chapters, a total of 31 pages in the copy I read.
