Did God overreact to Adam and Eve’s sin in the garden of Eden? The punishment might seem not to fit the offense: a cursed world and humanity estranged from God—all for eating some forbidden fruit. Why was Adam and Eve’s disobedience such a terrible transgression against God?

Adam and Eve thought fig leaves would protect them from God’s righteous judgment of their disobedience. How do we try to cover up our sin with our own fig leaves to justify ourselves before God?