The born-agains would publicly decry the movie while flocking to see it, to satisfy their prurience.
However, if the movie was to be truly authentic, they would have to show Adam and Eve without navels.
How do you think the Christian community would react if a Hollywood movie about Genesis featured full frontal nudity of Adam and Eve? Do you think the movie would get major backlash, even if the movie was biblically accurate?
I cannot speak for "Christians" but like many I never find nudity offensive if it is done with class or comedy, it is crudeness and lewdness I do not like. For me the human anatomy can be looked upon as a form of art the lines it holds the shadows it casts. Both paintings and cinema have managed to capture nudity in different ways, it's not so much the nakedness but the way it is portrayed.
Ever seen Oliver Reed and Alan Bates in Women in Love? (nudity contained)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=xY_Kb5Qkj-4
Or Calendar Girls
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=N1_QH57InDo
Full frontal nudity isn't always necessary with a few strategically placed tree branches and ferns, especially if it takes away from the point of a film ie the story. No point of having an immature audience only paying to gawk at two naked people, cinema is meant to be an artform.
If we feel shame related to nudity, it apparently is a result of the fall of man in the "garden."
If that is so, then we humans as movie goers might have some difficulty in being able to properly appreciate nudity by empathizing with Adam & Eve prior to the fall.
Genesis 3:8-12New Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition (NRSVCE)8 They heard the sound of the Lord God walking in the garden at the time of the evening breeze, and the man and his wife hid themselves from the presence of the Lord God among the trees of the garden. 9 But the Lord God called to the man, and said to him, “Where are you?” 10 He said, “I heard the sound of you in the garden, and I was afraid, because I was naked; and I hid myself.” 11 He said, “Who told you that you were naked? Have you eaten from the tree of which I commanded you not to eat?” 12 The man said, “The woman whom you gave to be with me, she gave me fruit from the tree, and I ate.”
And if you understand the creation story properly, nudity in the garden of Eden could not possibly be considered "pornography."---otherwise God would have said, "Now go get dressed you two."
(Can't you picture Adam and Even looking at each other and saying,"What is He talking about?")
