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Genesis 2:25
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There was no shame because there was no sin. Shame came with the fall; shame came with sin and the curse. Shame, it has been said, was consciousness of exposure to lust. In fallen human beings God has put a conscience, a kind of indwelling magistrate to warn us and to accuse us or to clear us, and we try to overcome it and silence it, but part of conscience is shame, and shame must be heeded. Shamelessness is coarseness; shamelessness is man saying that lust is right and he is entitled to it. Shamelessness is therefore a matter of abandon and rebellion. So we have in chapter 2 the completion of creation, the sabbath principle, man’s purpose, his work, his burden elaborated; we have the garden; the covenant test, the simple law: Do not eat of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil; we have the woman equal to the man; the institution of marriage: all these foundational things are taking place in a mansion, the most marvellous mansion ever built, the Garden of Eden, the home of Adam and of Eve.
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Shame is a precious thing; it is a good thing to be capable of being ashamed. And shame particularly attaches to undress, and it is a protection. It is a warning, it is a part of conscience, a warning against lust; so we respect it. And as Christians particularly, we do not follow the abandon of the world: ‘O there’s nothing wrong in over-revealing garments. Away with shame about such things!’ Not at all: that embarrassment, that shame is a gift of God to a fallen race and it must be honoured and watched and observed.
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