Fig leaves. After eating the forbidden fruit, Adam and Eve “sewed fig leaves together, and made themselves aprons” (Genesis 3:7). Before they left Eden, God replaced those leaves with clothing of his own making: “Unto Adam also and to his wife did the Lord God make coats of skins, and clothed them” (Genesis 3:21). So the story has two coverings in it, and as Christians read it, the difference between them is the heart of it. The first is what…

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