Nudity is not sex. It is about body acceptance, age acceptance, and freedom, breaking shame, increasing self-confidence and celebrating God's greatest creation.

Nude Recreation is fun, healthy and good for the soul. It exposes the whole body to the air and sun, and gives people an added incentive to be fit. It promotes healthy naturist family values. Unwholesome curiosity about the naked body, which is often the source of lust, will be removed; fuel for fantasy will be gone.

Most people become accustomed very quickly to nudity and get over all the hang-ups. By being accustomed to nudity we can react maturely to social situations of nudity that used to embarrass us, such as locker rooms, gang showers, hospitals, and nudity in art. 

Our bodies are a gift from God. How can it be embarrassing?  Why should we be ashamed of this miracle? This gift should be honoured and admired. The body is the highest achievement of God. It is more complex than the universe. It is beautiful beyond words. The more we are brought up to see a nude body in a context other than sexual situations the more we see the human body as beautiful instead of lustfully. 

There is a double standard. Christian naturists hold one standard (that the human body is beautiful and need not be hidden), while other parts of society hold another (that the human body is obscene and should be hidden).

Naturists in general are comfortable with their own bodies and those of other people. However, there are lot of others who have less healthy attitudes about nudity, and it is often those less healthy attitudes that inspire gawking and illicit photography. If the whole world took on the naturist view of nudity, then this double standard would disappear.

As nature intended, people are realizing that nude recreation has nothing to do with sexuality. Most people find it much less stimulating than swim suits designed to be sexy. It is about respect of the body and person, weather fat, skinny, young or old, and enjoying the beach or other activities while nude.

Each society has its own morals and customs. American Roman Catholics have fewer members who enjoy nude recreation, but in France, for instance, naked Roman Catholics populate virtually all the beaches and see nothing sinful about enjoying the beach free of clothing.

Clothing imposes a barrier between nature and men. The Bible does not place any restriction on being nude. The Greeks and Romans customarily exercised nude. God commanded Isaiah to go out and preach publicly naked for three solid years (Isaiah 20)! The prophets were commonly naked, as a sign.

So much so, that when Saul stripped off his clothes and prophesied nude before the masses, the people figured he was under the command of God and was a prophet (1 Samuel 19:24). King David danced nude in the City of David to celebrate the return of the Ark of the Covenant. When his wife criticized him for doing this, she was soundly rebuked and ended up childless until her death (II Samuel 6:20-23).

God condemned the wearing of make up. Why? Paul, like all other people of a holy mind, see the human body as the Temple of God, worthy of praise, and needing no adornment… for it is made in the image of God!  What temple was ever ordered by God to be draped and covered so as to be hidden?

God says through Ezekiel: “I made you grow like a plant of the field, naked and bare. You grew up and became tall, and arrived at full maiden-hood, the ORNAMENT OF ORNAMENTS; your breasts were fully formed and your hair had grown.” (Ezekiel 16:7).

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