Sunday, February 12, 2012

What does it mean to put on a fig leaf?

Cover your nakedness.

What does it mean to put on a fig leaf?
it means put a cover or a disguise over something.

back in the day, statues of people were made showing them naked. later on, they were censored by putting a leaf over their privates.
Reply:Nothing.
Reply:In Adam %26amp; Eve's case, they were trying to cover up their sin and nakedness. (And they used probably the roughest material available at the time to do it.)
Reply:Adam and Eve started wearing fig leaves after eating from the Tree of Knowledge. Here, she doesn't like fig leaves. Why not? Because she thinks a fig leaf is a form of lying. OK, so, let's see. Evelyn has Eve's after-the-fall knowledge and Eve's pre-fall predilections
Reply:It depends what you are quoting....

Genesis 3:7 Adam and Eve put fig leaves because they were sexually seduced by the devil. If they would have eaten an apple they would had covered their mouths.



Please give more details of what you are referring to.


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