How Shame Keeps Us Hiding
All Things Catholic with Dr. Edward Sri
Ascension
4.9 • 1.4K Ratings
🗓️ 20 January 2026
⏱️ 30 minutes
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Summary
What does the Bible really mean when it says Adam and Eve were “naked and not ashamed” (Genesis 2:25)? Dr. Sri explores how Adam and Eve’s physical nakedness points to something far deeper: total trust, vulnerability, and freedom—what we were created for before sin entered the world. He reveals how shame entered the human story, explaining how it causes us to hide, perform, compare, and fear being truly seen.
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| 0:12.0 | Hi, I'm Edwards Three, and welcome to all things Catholic, where real faith meets real life. |
| 0:29.1 | I think one of the strangest verses in the Bible is right at the beginning in Genesis 2.25, right after God creates Adam and Eve, the Bible says they were naked and not ashamed. |
| 0:36.1 | Can I just call that out? That's just weird. That's weird. Have you ever wondered |
| 0:40.2 | about this first? I mean, think about it. Of all the things the Bible could tell us about Adam and Eve, |
| 0:44.9 | why do I need to know that? Why do we need to know they were naked and not ashamed? And what does that |
| 0:49.5 | really mean? I think many times when we Christians read the Bible and we come across a line, a phrase that |
| 0:55.6 | doesn't really make sense. We're not sure what it's all about. I think we just tend to skip over |
| 1:00.8 | those sometimes. And we just go, well, it's just the Bible. It doesn't have to really make sense. |
| 1:05.9 | It's just Bible world. I don't have to really understand. And we just kind of skip those passages. |
| 1:10.4 | And, you know, but if you were to take that same phrase and take it out of the scriptures and put it in the midst of ordinary daily life, I mean, for example, if you were to text your friend and say, hey, friend, how are you doing? And your friend texts back, I'm naked and I'm not ashamed. That's just weird. That's too much information. But we take that |
| 1:30.0 | same phrase and we read it in the Bible and we make the sign of the cross and go, naked and not |
| 1:33.2 | shame. Oh, that's holy. And we just move on. St. John Paul II dared to ask, what is this |
| 1:39.5 | phrase in the Bible really mean? And he underscored how the physical nakedness of Adam and Eve |
| 1:46.5 | was really pointing to something deeper, a deeper interpersonal nakedness, a certain kind of |
| 1:54.0 | emotional nakedness that they shared, a spiritual nakedness. In other words, I mean, just think |
| 1:59.2 | about being in a relationship like |
| 2:00.8 | Adam and Eve had before the fall. Before sin ever entered the world, think about that marriage. |
| 2:07.7 | What an amazing relationship that would have been. There was no sin in their hearts, no selfishness, |
| 2:13.7 | no pride, no laziness, no lack of gratitude. |
| 2:19.1 | They had total security. |
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