Birth nudity: Why God recommends birth nudity in the Bible

Most parents think that it is commonsense - children should wear clothing, in and outside of the home. This is a common attitude amongst American parents. However, Christian tradition calls for birth nudity as a means to win over children. 

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. This word ultimately refers to a secure attachment between parent and child in the family home. This secure attachment comes from parent submission, where parents are to submit to their children as they would to God, 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. 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 secular writings. Paul may not have gotten along with the women of the church, but he sure loved children, and even took in a few orphaned children during his time. Indeed, Greco-Roman fathers got out the scourge of cords in order to punish their children, but NOT the Christians among them - the Early Christians were persecuted largely due to being "too soft" on their children.

Birth nudity is a Christian tradition predating the Early Church itself. Children went naked wherever they went, in biblical times. Mothers also were naked when in the family home. Mother and child were naked together in the family home, with children resting in the loving arms of mothers, in skin-on-skin closeness and intimacy. The whole concept of birth nudity is to form a secure attachment between parent and child, from day one. 

Children then were naked everywhere that they went. Mothers, when out and about, wore a loose-fitting, revealing dress that resembled an apron. Children were naked in order to facilitate skin-on-skin warmth and nourishment, with mothers being completely naked at home. Giving skin-on-skin sustaining warmth to your child, in the family home, was as easy as picking up your child, and holding the child in your arms. Mothers breastfed the child until the child pushed away the nipple, which usually happened by age 2, but sometimes not until age 6, or even later in rare instances.

Come nightfall, children co-slept next to their mothers in skin-on-skin closeness and intimacy. This co-sleeping lasted until the onset of puberty, which was when most children wanted their own place to sleep. In some cases, co-sleeping lasted longer, that is, when the father had predatory desires for his own child, usually his daughter. The point of co-sleeping was partially ready the man of the house for the nudity of his children, with nudity being something that the more the man of the house sees of his daughter, the more he can handle her naked. The attraction becomes more connotational than driven, in due time.

Children in modern times have to wear clothing when in public, starting from day one. This leaves mothers quartered in the family home, naked alongside their child. The modern practice of birth nudity is letting the child choose when they want to wear clothing, and until then, finding time in that birth nudity to bond with your child. In the Early Church, children weren't given clothing until their baptism. This context is obsolete due to the law of the land, which requires that children wear clothing in public. "Give unto Caesar what is Caesar's, and give into God what is God's" (Matt. 22:21; see also Rom. 13:1-4).

The Bible recommends birth nudity for children. The Bible is a founding document of this country, even above the Constitution itself. The Bible is written to its Audience, with the context as a guide as to how the Bible should be applied. Childhood was a concept in biblical times, contrary to popular belief, and was a time to be pampered and coddled, with the adults in the church welcoming the child into the world from day one. One way that children were welcomed was through birth nudity. Children only got their clothing after they were baptized, and were only required to wear the clothing if they were a man. Women only wore a loose-fitting, revealing dress that resembled an apron in order to honor their husband. 

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 God is at hand!