What Is "Naked?"

After reading KJV Genesis 3:6-13, the Scripture saith in KJV Genesis 3:7 that Adam and Eve's "eyes were opened, and they knew that they were naked"...

My question from reading this is: "What is 'naked'?"

Before Adam and Eve sewed some fig leaves together to make themselves aprons to wear on their bodies, being "naked" in their uncovered, fleshly, physical bodies was part of their normal living. Their normal way of life.

But after Adam and Eve have eaten from the Forbidden Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil (KJV Genesis 3:6) God told them NOT to eat of; they must have received the "knowledge of nakedness" or a "conscious" after eating the fruit of the forbidden tree of the knowledge of good and evil...

KJV Genesis 3:6-7,

6 ¶ And when the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was pleasant to the eyes, and a tree to be desired to make one wise, she took of the fruit thereof, and did eat, and gave also unto her husband with her; and he did eat.
7 And the eyes of them both were opened, and they knew that they were naked; and they sewed fig leaves together, and made themselves aprons.


Another question even comes to my mind: Why did God place this tree of the knowledge of good and evil in the Garden of Eden in the first place?

I think it's because God was testing the obedience of Adam and Eve to see if they would obey or disobey Him, even though God knows beforehand that they will.

God in effect gives man an "option" of freewill to choose to obey or disobey Him.

When man in effect chooses to disobey God in the form of Adam and Eve eating the fruit of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, God asks Adam "Who told thee that thou was naked?" and "Hast thou eaten of the tree, whereof I commanded thee that thou shouldest not eat?" (It's interesting that they "hid themselves" as well; they must have had the "knowledge of guilt" as a result of doing something they should not have... Why else "hide"?)

KJV Genesis 3:8-11,

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 among the trees of the garden.

9 And the LORD God called unto Adam, and said unto him, Where art thou?

10 And he said, I heard thy voice in the garden, and I was afraid, because I was naked; and I hid myself.

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?

Adam does not simply come over and directly say "Yes, I did eat the fruit of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil that You told me not to eat of"; but instead Adam first shifts the blame to Eve when he replies to without taking into account his own personal action by saying "The woman thou gavest me..."; to go as far as saying "God, this woman you gave me made me 'mess up' and eat the fruit".

KJV Genesis 3:12, And the man said, The woman whom thou gavest to be with me, she gave me of the tree, and I did eat.

Then when God asks the woman (e.g. "Eve") "What is this that thou hast done?" and the woman "Eve" replies by blaming the "serpent" (who turns out to be the Devil, Satan) instead of taking personal responsibility for her transgression against God by simply saying, "Yes, I did eat..."

KJV Genesis 3:13, And the LORD God said unto the woman, What is this that thou hast done? And the woman said, The serpent beguiled me, and I did eat.

And for the finish...

KJV Genesis 3:14-24,

14 ¶ And the LORD God said unto the serpent, Because thou hast done this, thou art cursed above all cattle, and above every beast of the field; upon thy belly shalt thou go, and dust shalt thou eat all the days of thy life:
15 ¶ And I will put enmity between thee and the woman, and between thy seed and her seed; it shall bruise thy head, and thou shalt bruise his heel.
16 ¶ Unto the woman he said, I will greatly multiply thy sorrow and thy conception; in sorrow thou shalt bring forth children; and thy desire shall be to thy husband, and he shall rule over thee.
17 And unto Adam he said, Because thou hast hearkened unto the voice of thy wife, and hast eaten of the tree, of which I commanded thee, saying, Thou shalt not eat of it: cursed is the ground for thy sake; in sorrow shalt thou eat of it all the days of thy life;
18 Thorns also and thistles shall it bring forth to thee; and thou shalt eat the herb of the field;
19 In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread, till thou return unto the ground; for out of it wast thou taken: for dust thou art, and unto dust shalt thou return.
20 And Adam called his wife's name Eve; because she was the mother of all living.
21 Unto Adam also and to his wife did the LORD God make coats of skins, and clothed them.
22 ¶ And the LORD God said, Behold, the man is become as one of us, to know good and evil: and now, lest he put forth his hand, and take also of the tree of life, and live for ever:
23 Therefore the LORD God sent him forth from the garden of Eden, to till the ground from whence he was taken.
24 So he drove out the man; and he placed at the east of the garden of Eden Cherubims, and a flaming sword which turned every way, to keep the way of the tree of life.