d twenty years" (Gen.6.3-4). To see the "nakedness" of one's body was considered sinful. God originally told Adam and Eve to "be fruitful and multiply." He later tells this to Noah as well. He wants them to use their bodies to fill the earth and they have no shame. When sin entered the picture the bodies became sinful and the outlook changed. The Lord said to them, "By the sweat of you face shall you get bread to eat, until you return to the ground, from which you were taken; For you are dirt and to dirt you shall return" (Gen.3.19-20). God went from blessing the fruitful bodies and having pride in the ones created in His image to punishing them and accusing them of coming from the dirt.
             In other passages we can see the soul was regarded as more important than the body. In Matt
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