Also, I am I to understand that Adam and Eve had no skin throughout the serpent ordeal up until Gen 3:21?
2007-08-06 01:44:55 · 16 answers · asked by sticky 7 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Genesis 3:21
The LORD God made garments of skin for Adam and his wife and CLOTHED them.
They were made with skin already. The skin that that verse your quoting means clothing.
The "US" in that verse is the father,son,and holy spirit. Triune God
2007-08-06 01:53:30 · answer #1 · answered by ReliableLogic 5 · 1⤊ 2⤋
The skins in Genesis 3:21 is skin used as clothing - like a leather jacket.
The Us is a remnant from the old Elohist use of the plural to refer to a "godhead" that many Israelites/Jews believed in at the time. Baal and Ashtoreth were the male and female halves of the godhead referred to as Elohim (Us). Google it - you'll see.
2007-08-06 09:11:23 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
They r God the Father , God the Son , and God the Holy Spirit .
Some ppl may say that the writer ( Moses ) used it as respectability to God ( the royal we ). But that is wrong , coz the book of Genesis was written in Hebrew , and Hebrew language doesnt have that royal we. So, it refers to three persons i mentioned before.
Good luck!
2007-08-06 08:54:20 · answer #3 · answered by cleopatra 4 · 1⤊ 2⤋
They were God the Father, Jehovah (Jesus Christ), Michael the archangel, and others that assisted in creating the world and all that is in it.
The coats of skin were additional requirements for Adam and Eve once they learned they were naked. They had their own skin--of course--since their birth.
2007-08-06 08:53:45 · answer #4 · answered by Guitarpicker 7 · 2⤊ 1⤋
God is a very difficult concept to understand with our limited knowledge. As far as the Bible describes to us, God is one being with three parts. There is God the Father, God the Son (Jesus) and God the Holy Spirit. They are three parts who have different roles, but are all part of one God. It's difficult to understand for anyone, but that is what is given to us as the nature of God.
Also, in Genesis 3:21, it is speaking of making them "garments of skin," meaning that god made clothing items out of animal skin. Imagine a tunic made out of leather or fur, rather than the bushes or leaves they may have made clothing out of by themselves.
I hope this helps, feel free to private message me with any questions you have.
2007-08-06 08:52:29 · answer #5 · answered by Takkuso 3 · 1⤊ 2⤋
The Us- is God addressing his partner in creation- HUMANKIND. The way it is understood is this. God created man to be partners with him in creation. Thus in the spiritual realm- it is incomplete without the observance of the Sabbath day by people- and thus we partner with God in the spiritual realm. In the physical realm- we learn that God intended for us to be his partners in creation with him as well. He thus addresses himself to the souls of the future generations, telling us that there will be something for us to do in the completion of the creation of man. (It is the Jewish belief, expounded on by the Ramban in his commentaries to bereishis, that God in essence only created two things, both on the first day. From the one- everything physical evolved- from the other- everything spiritual, thus the souls of mankind were already in existence by the sixth day- albeit not in bodies. God's intervention is needed here to combine the physical with the spiritual since naturally the two would not combine.
So, what is the physical act of creation that we do in order to be partners with God in creation? that is seen in the Bris Milah- circumcision. Just as the Sabath day was the Jews sealing of their spiritual covenant with God and becoming his partner in spiritual creation- so the Bris Milah is the physical covenant through which we become God's partners in his creation of the physical world.
The "skin" bit is a lot easier to understand- until that point they had skin- but had no need of clothes since 1) the weather in the Garden of Eden was perfect and 2) they had no concept of modesty.
2007-08-06 09:12:36 · answer #6 · answered by allonyoav 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
3:21 - Unto Adam also and to his wife did the LORD God make coats of skins, and clothed them.
By 'skins', it means the skins of animals to use as clothing.
2007-08-06 08:59:34 · answer #7 · answered by ChiChi 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
That is a good question. I think that the early jews believed in many gods and not one. The writings lend credit to the fact that the jews were polytheists and not monotheists. At some point they do become to think that there is just one god and not many. But, the information was already out there so they just revise their thinking to mean the angels. Then the chirstians revise the thinking to mean god, jc, and the holy ghost.
Nice to see philosophical evolution at work.
2007-08-06 08:53:31 · answer #8 · answered by dlee_75 3 · 2⤊ 3⤋
The alien nation of God.
2007-08-06 10:45:02 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
The Trinity. And, Adam and Eve had skin from 'birth'.
2007-08-06 08:48:57 · answer #10 · answered by capitalctu 5 · 1⤊ 3⤋