Birth nudity: Why birth nudity is a Christian tradition

Most American parents think that children should wear clothing. This is a common attitude in American homes. The fact of the matter is, however, is that children didn't wear any clothing at all, until they became adults and while being baptized. Birth nudity was a Christian tradition in biblical times, lifted up by the Christian doctrine of mutual submission.

Birth nudity is the best way you can understand the Christian doctrine of mutual submission in the family home. Children surrender into the loving arms of mothers, as mothers provide sustaining warmth. 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 in the sacrifice of parents, just as parent believers rest securely in the 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 their 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 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 secular writings.

Birth nudity is a Christian tradition, dating all the way back to the Early Church. During the first 6 years of a child's life, children were in constant closeness to mothers, meaning that wherever the mother went in biblical times, so did the child. The Early Christians practiced birth nudity, where mothers and children were in the nude next to each other, in skin-on-skin closeness and intimacy. When out and about in public, mothers swaddled their young children to their bosom in swaddling blankets, then tucking the child underneath her shirt. Mothers in biblical times felt free to breastfeed whenever necessary, including when she had the child with her in public. Come nightfall, children co-slept next to mothers in skin-on-skin format. This skin-on-skin co-sleeping lasted until puberty, when the child wanted a place for him/herself to sleep on their own.

Women in biblical times went naked in the family home, in order to serve both their children and their husbands, separately. When mothers went out and about, they wore a loose-fitting, revealing dress that resembled an apron. Children went naked wherever they went, and this setup was to make skin-on-skin comfort more accessible to children. In this birth nudity context, whenever a child was mere picked up, there was skin-on-skin closeness.

Birth nudity, in its modern practice, is allowing children to go completely naked, all the way up until they choose to wear clothing on their terms. Until then, mothers were also in the nude for purposes of sustaining warmth, remaining home constantly, tending to her babies. This tradition is an old Christian tradition, dating back to the Early Church, and even before then in Ancient Israel.

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!