That’s what it says. They were ashamed of their nakedness and put on clothes. “...they knew that they were naked; and they sewed fig leaves together, and made themselves aprons...”
That’s not what is being taught there.
Whoever taught that to you is completely wrong.
They ate of the fruit of the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil.
They disobeyed His commandment.
They were now ashamed.
And then God made animal skins for them to wear.
He couldn’t have been upset with them for wearing clothes when He then went and clothed them Himself.
What upset Him was the sin they committed in eating of the forbidden tree, not covering their nakedness.
Your post has to take the cake as the most misinterpreted I have ever seen a passage of Scripture dealt with.
I’ve always thought God’s “Who told you you were naked?” is the funniest line in the whole Bible.
God is not unhappy with them for wearing clothes, he’s disappointed in them for disobeying his one and only command (not to eat the fruit from the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil).
Before, when they were pure and innocent, they knew nothing of evil, knew no wicked thoughts or evil desires, but only only good and natural ones. Like babes, they gave no thought to nakedness, their own or each others’. Tiny tots in their innocence don’t understand why they can’t run around naked in public — they have no idea there are sick-minded people in the world whose lustful desires for self gratification extend to getting their jollies from looking at naked children (or worse).
After eating that fruit, they do know about selfish lust (versus natural, tender loving desire for intimacy with one’s spouse). And now they know shame, and start grabbing fig leaves. Uh oh. They hear God coming for his usual stroll. What to do? Run and hide! Yes, we are all too often tempted to try to hide from God when we are in sin.
Now here Adam is, like the kid with chocolate smeared all around his mouth who wonders why his mother knows he snitched those cookies she told him not to eat before dinner.
When God asks who told them they were naked, and had they eaten that forbidden fruit, what does Adam do? He essentially blames God! That woman — the one You gave me, God — she gave me the fruit and I ate it. Eve, in her turn, blames the snake.
Don’t they sound like kids? Mom: Mikey, did you get into those cookies I told you not to eat before dinner? Mikey: Sis put me up to it. Sis: It was all Johnny’s idea! Mom: And now you’ve gone and spoiled your dinner!
Mom isn’t mad at Mikey for having chocolate smeared around his mouth, but rather disappointed Mikey has disobeyed her and spoiled his appetite for the delicious and nourishing meal she was preparing, and is now full of empty sugar calories.
God wasn’t upset with Adam and Eve for wearing fig leaves over their privates. He was disappointed in them for choosing to disobey His one and only command and ignoring His warning. There they were, in the garden paradise God had prepared for them, no toil, no sickness, no death, no pain, no tears, and complete freedom other than being told not to mess with a certain tree. But then they had to go and spoil it all for themselves by doing the one and only prohibited thing (which God had prohibited for their own good).
Well, ya can’t have sinful folks living forever, can ya? Not of you care about them: they’d be condemning themselves to eternal damnation. So out of the Garden they must go, to a life of toil and painful childbirth, and yes, death. The snake is banished, too, and punished. And there will ever be enmity between snake and mankind. But God, being Love, still loves Adam and Eve and takes pity on them by fashioning better clothes for them from animal skins.
To keep them from sneaking back in and stealing fruit from the Tree of Life, God assigns a cherubim with a flaming sword to guard it. But He already had a Plan. One day, His only begotten Son would die upon a tree of torture to redeem us and rise again three days later to restore the Way to eternal life in the glorious presence of God.
And he took the cup, and gave thanks, and gave it to them, saying, Drink ye all of it;
For this is my blood of the new testament, which is shed for many for the remission of sins.
Fruit hanging from the Tree of Life in the Garden was once made freely available by God to Adam and Eve, but they blew it big time. Jesus, hanging from the cross, freely gave of Himself for our salvation.