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heavens and brought them to the man to see what he would call them. And whatever the man called
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every living creature, that was its name. The man gave names to all livestock and to the birds of the
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heavens and to every beast of the field. But for Adam there was not found a helper fit for him. So

the LORD God caused a deep sleep to fall upon the man, and while he slept took one of his ribs and closed
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up its place with flesh. And the rib that the LORD God had taken from the man he madeinto a woman

and brought her to the man. Then the man said,
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“This at last is bone of my bones
and flesh of my flesh;
she shall be called Woman,
because she was taken out of Man.”
24 Therefore a man shall leave his father and his mother and hold fast to his wife, and they shall become
one flesh. And the man and his wife were both naked and were not ashamed. (ESV)
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This is the first time that God did not finish with, “It was good”. This is not an indication that God had
made something wrong or that something was damaged, rather it was a commentary on a lack of
completion. Everything that God does is good, therefore, we can know that what God was saying is that
man being alone is not good – that is why I am not going to leave him this way.

Some people get the idea in verses 19 and 20 that God was allowing Adam to look for a partner or that
God was trying to figure out what creature would complement Adam. This thinking causes two
problems. First, it leads us to believe that God is in a state of figuring this “creation stuff” out as if He
has no plan or forethought and is just solving problems as they present themselves. This could lead us
to believe that God might not have all the answers. If He is just figuring things out as they happen, even
if He is doing it really fast and accurately, that does not demonstrate control and omniscience. Instead it
just demonstrates fast thinking and intelligence. Both of these characteristics, while handy for man, are
not sufficient to be the supreme, all powerful God of the universe. If God is just thinking this out as it
unfolds then there could possibly come a problem that He can’t solve. Our God is not solving problems
in real time, He has solved them from time eternally past and they are just occurring and resolving
according to His pre-ordained plan in our real time.

The second problem is that it can lead people to believe that women are an after-thought of God or
maybe just the best solution to a “man being alone” problem. Neither of these thoughts give woman
her proper place in the planned design of creation. Woman, just like man, was pre-planned and
purposed by God from time eternally past. The role she would play in the relationship with man was
also pre-planned and purposed by God. Woman is not a second tier of human creation; she is a glorious
part of God’s grand design to make mankind complete by creating one organism in two bodies then
bringing those two bodies together and uniting them forever with the seal of marriage so that they each
compliment, support, love, communicate with, and minister to and with each other. Man and woman
were designed to be united in marriage and become one functioning unit existing in two bodies.

To think of woman as an afterthought can lead to subjugation and abuse of women. God would never
have intended that. Woman is to be submitted to her husband, but not subservient, or subjugated to
him. Remember Apostle Peter’s admonition to husbands in 1Peter 3:7. He tells husbands to give honor
to their wives and treat them as a “weaker vessel” not a lesser vessel. He reminds us that they are
“heirs together”, this means on the same footing and level with man, after all they were taken out of the
side, not the feet of man. Then he goes on to say that if we do not treat them like this, God will not hear
or answer our prayers.

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