Birth nudity: Why birth nudity is a Christian tradition

Many parents want children to wear clothing. This is seen as commonsense by many parents. Most American parents force their children to wear their clothing at all times, even in the family home. However, the true Christian tradition is for mothers to harbor their children in the family home, with both mother and child in the nude. This is birth nudity, and it is a Christian tradition dating to the Early Church.

Birth nudity is part of the Christian doctrine of mutual submission, where children surrender into the loving arms of mothers. 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 to lift up the customary law that commands a secure attachment between parents and children 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, but not limited to, any punishments, reprimands, or other 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 Christian parents 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 was a parenting tradition in the Early Christian churches. For the first 6 years of a child's life, children were in constant closeness to mothers, meaning wherever the mother went, so did the child. The Early Christians practiced birth nudity, meaning mother and child were in the nude next to each other, in skin-on-skin closeness and intimacy. When children cried, mothers cooed while swooping in on the crying action, then holding the child close to her bosom in mammary closeness. When out and about in public, mothers swaddled their young children - under age 6 - to their bosom in swaddling blankets. Come nightfall, children co-slept next to their mothers in skin-on-skin warmth and sustenance, and slept next to their mothers (in most cases) until the onset of puberty.

Children, in the Early Church, were naked wherever they went, with mothers being naked in order to serve both her children and her husband. Mothers stood by their young children - aged under age 6 - and guarded them from the sexual entitlement of their fathers, in constant closeness with their children. Older children were also naked, and were naked until they were formally baptized into the church. Skin-on-skin co-sleeping was the focal point of Christian attachment parenting, and throughout the child's prepubescent years, children always snuggled with mothers come nightfall. This setup was intended partially to convict fathers of their parent attraction, but also to provide optimal warmth and sustenance for a child. In the latter years of childhood, skin-on-skin co-sleeping was a retreat after a long day playing and studying the Bible.

Birth nudity is a time-honored Christian tradition, dating to the very beginnings of Christianity, in the Early Church. We as a nation glean from that context, and so we can treat our children to birth nudity. The modern practice of birth nudity is that children are allowed to be naked in the family home, wherever they are in the family home, until they choose on their own to wear clothing. The mother is also naked in the family home, and is in that state in order to comfort and reassure their child with skin-on-skin mammary closeness when they cry. 

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 forever and ever! Repent, for the Kingdom of Heaven is at hand!