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Clothing and Genesis

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In this illustration, we learn that the doctrine of clothing has its foundation in the historical events in Genesis 1-11. After Adam sinned, God made coats of skins and clothed Adam and Eve. To do this, God must have killed at least one animal (possibly more).

To understand this doctrine, look at Hebrews 9:22, where we're told that 'without the shedding of blood there is no remission.' Also, in Leviticus, we read that the life of the flesh is in the blood (Leviticus 17:11). God was illustrating to Adam and Eve that there had to be payment for their sin.
In covering them, He was showing them that there had to be death and bloodshed to take away their sin. Of course, this was a picture of the Gospel as outlined in Genesis 3:15. In fact, this verse really sums up the entire Bible and is the first presentation of the Gospel. The clothing of Adam and Eve is a picture of the Gospel. One could reasonably postulate that the animal that God killed for the coats of skins could have been a lamb, symbolizing that Jesus Christ is the Lamb of God who takes away the sin of the world.

This event of the giving of clothes was the first blood sacrifice as a covering for sin, which was a picture of what was to come in Jesus Christ-the Lamb of God who would take away our sin.

The fact that God gave clothes because of sin means that there is a moral basis for clothing, and thus there are also standards. The Israelites sacrificed animals over and over again, but the blood of bulls and goats can't take away our sin (as we're taught in Hebrews). This is because man is not just an animal-he is not connected to the animal kingdom. Man was made separately from the animals; he was made in the image of God. Therefore we needed a man to die for our sin, which is why God sent His son Jesus Christ to become one of us (of our blood), to be our relative, so that He could die on the Cross and be raised from the dead to save us from our sins.

Note that as more and more people abandon the Bible as the absolute authority and reject Genesis 1-11 as literal history, one consequence has been a rejection of standards in regard to dress. This has led to an increase in people taking off their clothes (whether it be on TV, the beach, etc.) and justifying nudity.

There is even a church where the people call themselves 'Christian nudists' and they talk about getting back to what the Bible teaches concerning Adam and Eve originally being naked in the Garden of Eden. But in doing this they are ignoring the entrance of sin and its consequences on this world. Even though Adam and Eve were naked to start with, sin changed everything-therefore the wearing of clothes is based in the historical events in Genesis 1-11.