Verse 7
CONSEQUENCES OF THEIR SIN
"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, and they heard the voice of Jehovah God walking in the garden in the cool of the day; and the man and his wife hid themselves from the presence of Jehovah God amongst the trees of the garden."
What a tragic failure of Satan's glorying promises! "Like God?" Well, God was never ashamed, conscious of an intolerable nakedness, fearful, and seeking a place to hide. How brutally and viciously Satan had betrayed them!
A lot of sexually-related nonsense has been written about this event, but we find full agreement with Skinner who wrote that:
"A connection between sexual shame and sin is not suggested by this passage, and is, besides, not true to experience."[15]
"Walking in the garden in the cool of the day ..." The anthropomorphisms of this passage present no problem. The only way God could communicate with man was upon a level that man could understand. Furthermore, the ultimate intention of God's becoming a man in the person of Jesus Christ was surely inherent in his early intimacies with his human creation.
TRYING TO HIDE FROM GOD It was impossible, of course, for the sinful couple to hide from the Creator, but that did not prevent their trying to do so. Men still try to hide from God by turning away from Bible reading, forsaking worship services, and by pretending to be so busy that they have no time for thoughts of God. Ahab tried to hide from God in the battle, but the arrow of God found him anyway. Jonah tried to flee from the "presence of Jehovah," but the eyes of the Lord were upon the wide seas, and God found him just the same.
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