First, Genesis 2:18a says literally, “not good is man’s aloneness”. That is as clear as can be. Aloneness, solitary living, is not good. One of the deepest pains sociologists have measured in society is living an isolated and lonely life. They report that such people ache with a deep pain they can’t even fully describe. Adam ached, God observed, and announced the solution for this great need.
Next, in Genesis 2:18b is God’s plan is, “I will make him a helper comparable to him”. Notice that God’s first reference to woman is by the title of ‘helper’. English just doesn’t convey what that Hebrew word means; hence, it is not seen as a great title. Webster’s New Collegiate Dictionary defines help as a noun meaning “one that helps, especially a relatively unskilled worker who assists a skilled worker, usually by manual labor”. That definition in English is what has fueled the misconceptions of the inferiority of women and wives. If that definition doesn’t capture the world’s view of us quaint people called Bible-believing Christian’s marriages, then I don’t know what does.
But that English definition is exactly not what ‘helper’ meant to God. The Hebrew word God chose means something grand; literally, it describes a person “who assists another to reach complete fulfillment”. When the same word is used in other places in the Old Testament, it is used of someone who went and rescued another person. Now there we have it.
God made woman to come to man’s rescue and save him from his lonely existence. Eve was designed to rescue Adam from not only loneliness, but also to completely fulfill Adam.
From GEW-07b – Husbands Loved by Grace-Energized Wives (070617AM)
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