God clothing of Adam and Eve

[Martin Marprelate]

How could the true God -- not a pagan god -- do what the OT prophets say He did not desire and what Jesus affirmed He did not desire?

As Hosea 6:6 and Matthew 9:13 affirm, God desires mercy and not sacrifice, yet He also affirms that without the shedding of blood there is no remission of sin. The task of the Bible student is not to pitch one verse against another, but to reconcile them.

The question is how God can be 'Just and the justifier of the one who has faith in Jesus' (Rom. 3:26). How can a righteous God, a righteous Judge, who is 'angry with sinners every day' (Psalm 7:11), forgive sin? His justice demands that it be punished; His mercy pleads that it should be forgiven.

It is done by Penal Substitution.

On the cross, all the sins of God's elect were heaped upon the sinless shoulders of our Lord, and His perfect righteousness credited to those who believe. Christ has borne our sins once and for all, so that now God's wrath is propitiated and He can show mercy without requiring a sacrifice, for the blood of the Saviour has been shed once and for all, thereby fulfilling Hosea 6:6, Matt. 9:13 and Heb. 9:22.

Wonderful! Penal Substitution is just the greatest doctrine of all! No hope without it.

 

[Jerome]

God had them make their clothing of animal skins, a degrading display of their being vile sinners.


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Iconoclast, SovereignGrace

Huh? With what do you disagree?

 

[kyredneck]

God had them make their clothing of animal skins, a degrading display of their being vile sinners.

Huh? With what do you disagree?

Add me to the list.

And Jehovah God made for Adam and for his wife coats of skins, and clothed them. Gen 3:21

What is it about that passage that is confusing you?

 

[kyredneck]

7 And the eyes of them both were opened, and they knew that they were naked; and they sewed fig-leaves together, and made themselves aprons.
21 And Jehovah God made for Adam and for his wife coats of skins, and clothed them. Gen 3

The type is so true. They tried to hide their nakedness with the pitiful works of their own hands, but God intervened, God searched and found them even after they ran and hid from Him, and He shed the blood, and clothed them in such a way that their nakedness was covered. What a gospel story in type this is.

 

[Jerome]

God had them make their clothing of animal skins, a degrading display of their being vile sinners.

X Disagree x 2
Iconoclast, SovereignGrace

One just has to chuckle, seeing as that was John Calvin's take on the verse in question.

Here it is in full, Calvin's Commentary on Genesis 3:21

21.Unto Adam also , and to his wife , did the Lord God make , etc. Moses here, in a homely style, declares that the Lord had undertaken the labor of making garments of skins for Adam and his wife. It is not indeed proper so to understand his words, as if God had been a furrier, or a servant to sew clothes. Now, it is not credible that skins should have been presented to them by chance; but, since animals had before been destined for their use, being now impelled by a new necessity, they put some to death, in order to cover themselves with their skins, having been divinely directed to adopt this counsel; therefore Moses calls God the Author of it. The reason why the Lord clothed them with garments of skin appears to me to be this: because garments formed of this material would have a more degrading appearance than those made of linen or of woolen. God therefore designed that our first parents should, in such a dress, behold their own vileness, — just as they had before seen it in their nudity, — and should thus be reminded of their sin. In the meantime, it is not to be denied, that he would propose to us an example, by which he would accustom us to a frugal and inexpensive mode of dress. And I wish those delicate persons would reflect on this, who deem no ornament sufficiently attractive, unless it exceed in magnificence. Not that every kind of ornament is to be expressly condemned; but because when immoderate elegance and splendor is carefully sought after, not only is that Master despised, who intended clothing to be a sign of shame, but war is, in a certain sense, carried on against nature."