Birth nudity: Why birth nudity is a Christian tradition

Many parents think that children should keep their clothing on. This is seen as common sense by many parents. Most parents want their children want to keep their clothing on. However, we have traditions as a Christian nation, and one of those traditions is birth nudity. Birth nudity is where children are naked in the family home until they choose to wear their clothing. This tradition dates back to the beginnings of Christianity itself. 

Birth nudity is part of the Christian doctrine of mutual submission. See Colossians 3:20-21 KJV:

Children, obey your parents in all things: for this is well pleasing unto the Lord. Fathers, provoke not your children to anger, lest they be discouraged.

The Greek root word translated "obey" is υπακουο (Latin: hupakouo) and refers to secure, vulnerable rest in the love and submission of parents. Children are to rest securely in the sacrifice of parents, just as parent believers rest securely in the Sacrifice of Jesus Christ. This commandment was intended by the Apostle Paul as lifting up the customary law that commands a secure attachment between parent and child in the family home. This secure attachment comes from parent submission, where parents are to submit to children as their enemy, from beneath yet from above, expecting absolutely nothing in return.

The Greek root word translated "provoke...to anger" is ερεθιζο (Latin: erethizo) and refers to damages or offenses, namely the slightest of personal offense perceived by a child, including, but not limited to, the slightest of offensive touch or speech perceived by a child, stemming from entitlement. This commandment was intended by the Apostle Paul, and understood in its original context, as a moral statute prohibiting all forms of punitive parenting, including any punishments or controlling demeanor towards children. In the Old Testament, punitive parents were put to death by way of bloodletting, after punishing their children one last time. Parents who punished their children were charged with kidnapping, with "kidnapping" being defined under the Law as the slightest of damages or offenses stemming from hostage-taking - child punishment was seen in biblical times as holding your child hostage merely for things that they did wrong, thereby treating your child as a quartered slave. Paul here was lifting up the Law in order to convict a group of Greek Christians who brought their pagan custom of spanking and punishing children into the church. Paul, contrary to popular legend, was anti-spanking, and opposed any and all punishment of a child in his writings. 

Birth nudity is a Christian tradition in this country. For the first 6 years of a child's life, children were in constant closeness with their mothers, meaning that wherever the mother went, so did the child. Mother and child were in a state of birth nudity, where mother and child were in the nude next to each other, in skin-on-skin closeness and intimacy. This birth nudity setup brought out raw separation anxiety in children, where children were afraid of their mother "going away and never coming back". Mothers said to their children, in so many words, "I'm here, and I'm not going anywhere" as a token of reassurance that kept the separation anxiety - normal for young children - at bay. 

Children went completely in the nude for their entire childhood, meaning until they attained majority at age 13. Mothers also were naked in the family home, but not when outside the family home. When outside the family home, mothers who were married wore a loose-fitting, revealing dress in order to honor their husbands, with this dress resembling an apron. Young children were tucked under the mother's dress, and were tied up next to the bosom of mothers in swaddling blankets. The swaddling blankets were made of velvet, and were tied to the mother's left breast, across the dot to the mother's right leg, or vice versa, or both in the case of twins. 

The modern practice of birth nudity is different from how it was practiced in the past. In the Early Church, children were given their clothing after being baptized. The new way of doing birth nudity is that children choose their clothing, and until then, they can go naked wherever they want, as long as the nudity stays in the house. The mother also is naked in the family home, providing skin-on-skin comfort and sustenance for the child.

America is a Christian nation, founded on Judeo-Christian family values. What defines our values as a country? The Bible and its context. The Bible itself does not ever legitimately say to strike a child. Only young adults were struck in the Old Testament, and only in a courtroom setting after being sentenced for a criminal offense, in the form of 40 minus 1 lashes. Hebrews 12:5-11 was intended to comfort the Hebrew Christians in their persecution, not command parents to strike their children. Birth nudity is part of our traditions, as we base our traditions off of the Bible. 

The depraved and entitled parents who provoke their children to anger through punitive parenting will not inherit the Kingdom of God! Let them forever be cast into the lake of fire and burning sulfur, which is the second death prepared for Satan and his accomplices! Let them descend into the abyss which is the ever-burning Hell of fire and torment, suffering God's Wrath day and night forever and ever! Repent, for the Kingdom of Heaven is at hand!