Brianna McClean wrote an article for The Gospel Coalition (Australia Edition) entitled, "
Eve's Nakedness and Your Broken Body." It's really well written, addressing a pervasive problem with grace and wisdom. She writes to the daughters of the King, but knows that the sons need to read it too. I'd encourage you to
read the whole thing. A couple quotes should prove that it's worth your time.
Eve was the last woman to experience unbroken body-image.
She was the last woman to see her body outside of the shadow of sin. In Genesis
chapter two, Eve listens to the serpent and not to God, sin enters the world.
Note, the first consequence of sin is broken body-image. Adam and Eve realise
they are naked and feel ashamed. They cover themselves. Imagine Eve squirming
in her fig-leaf, sucking in her stomach and pinching her upper arms. She is
dissatisfied. ‘Am I ugly?’, she wonders for the first time. Sin affected Eve’s
physical body, made it mortal. The moment she turned her back on God the
life-giver, pain, disease and death embedded themselves in her DNA.
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As God made Eve’s animal-skin covering, he was really sewing
a prototype. He had plans for a much better covering, one which would destroy
the power of sin and shame. The clothes of Christ’s righteousness. The Bible
has good news for those weighed down by body-hatred. Jesus Christ died for your
body, and he will resurrect it. Christ didn’t just die for your soul, he died
to redeem your physical body. The New Creation will be a physical place, where
God’s people will live in their redeemed physical bodies.
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