GOD First, death was experienced by their superficial religious response to sin. The fig leaf is actually a religious reaction by the couple to their sense of guilt and their exposure to the threatened wrath of God. By definition, our response to the threat of divine wrath is a religious response. The couple knows that they are naked so they try superficially to cover the focal point of their rejection of God's purposes for them. The fig leaf is man's superficial, self-centered response to his awareness of his guilt before God.
Man responds to the spiritual issue of sin by performing an external rite.
He fails to see the exceeding sinfulness of sin in relation to God. He thinks that if he can just cover the spot where he has become aware of sin, then all will be well. He does something for the eyes of men, not the eyes of God. Secondly, death was experienced by their self-sufficient religion. Indeed, self becomes the god to be appeased.