I ran across an interesting article at The Telegraph today entitled, Why Naked Isn’t Nude. Interestingly, I had an instructor at Lincoln Christian College that taught this balderdash as well.

I agree that at one point in time there was a distinction between naked and nude. It is unfortunately a distinction that can only exist as long as mankind does not know of its existence. Once man fell, everything that was encompassed in “nude” suddenly became quite naked. For a Christian to make a distinction between nude and naked (excluding perhaps the marriage bed made righteous through Christ) is, I believe, a mistake, and a dangerous one at that.

Then the eyes of both of them opened, and they knew they were naked; so they sewed fig leaves together and made coverings for themselves. — Genesis 3:7 The NET Bible