Why is dressing "immodestly" considered a sin in the Bible? In the beginning, Adam & Eve apparently just flounce around the Garden completely naked & unashamed. It's only after they've eaten fruit from the tree that they feel shame for being naked. And when God comes to visit them next in the garden, he knows already what they've done even before he sees them having made clothes (sorta) out of like, leaves or something? I can't remember if he makes them confess their "sin" or not, but I remember that. After they've eaten fruit of the tree of life or whatever (I don't remember) they are unworthy or something and forced to leave the garden. So why is dressing immodestly considered shameful and sinful if Adam and Eve were doing in the Garden, and still seen as pure?

If a person has a life threatening growth, you’d have it removed. No one would argue against the surgery if it would save the patient’s life and the only way to do so was to remove the growth. Now replace “patient” with “young mother” and “growth” with “baby”. Suddenly we’re talking about abortion. We’ve humanized the growth and brought religious rules down upon us. It amazes me that in today’s world, a teacher for once didn’t have an answer to a relevant question asked in his class. The question posed was; “if the baby is the reason the mother is going to die, as in, the mother was particularly weak or something, and the strain of growing a life inside her was going to kill her, would the catholic church allow her to abort the baby without excommunicating her?”. And to my amazement my teacher stared at me like a deer in headlights, before putting on a thoughtful expression and telling me I should ask the bishop in our town.

Now I’m not religious, I was just asking a question, trying to get a better understanding of a rule I was just taught. And I still don’t have an answer. So I’ve decided to ask the people on here.

If the rule for catholic churches is “no abortions with no exceptions, however there is the Doctrine of double effect”, which is to say “There are times when an abortion may occur. E.g. when a woman is sick and requires an operation, but in the process of operating on her the baby is lost.”

So I have a character who was/is Jewish, yeah? She’s in a world where most of her life here on Earth is forgotten, but she has some memories still shine through, making her quite special. Obviously she doesn’t remember everything about it, maybe not even what it’s called, but she has snippets.

What I’d like to know, is if you could only express one bit of your faith, which would be the most important? Hard question, I imagine, but I want to be able to get the idea across without directly stating it (though my main character might bring it up, as a person that has full memories of Earth). She remembers things like the Star of David (she still has her pendant), and she stays away from any meat that resembles pork and non-kosher to the best of her abilities since the animals aren’t the same, though she can’t place why she does it. I want it to be meaningful, like something that was so important to her and her family that it survived.