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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
complement, support, love, communicate with, and minister to and with each other. A man and
woman were designed to be united in marriage and become one functioning unit existing in two bodies.

To think of women as an afterthought can lead to subjugation and abuse of women. God would never
have intended that. A 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 honor their
wives and treat them as a “weaker vessel,” not a lesser vessel. He reminds us that they are “heirs
together,” which means on the same footing and level with man; after all, they were taken out of the
side, not man's feet. Then He says that if we do not treat them like this, God will not hear or answer our
prayers.

In verses 19 and 20, we see God’s desire to see how man interacted with animals, nothing more.

In these verses, we also see the first marriage as ordained by God. We need to see some characteristics
of it and apply them:

1. They were male and female. This may seem obvious, but today we can assume nothing. God’s
design for marriage was for one man and one woman to join together to become one forever. When
we defend marriage, whether it is against homosexuality, polygamy, adultery, or fornication, we need to
defend it on the terms that God established it, and therefore, He gets to determine what it is and is not.
Just because man co-opts the term doesn’t mean that God agrees. God’s word and plan are unchanging
from before the beginning.

Today, many in our culture are rejecting God’s original design. According to Chris Drew, Ph.D., there are
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now 81 types of genders or gender identities. Just to name a few, he claims there are male, female,
transgender, cisgender, gender non-conforming, agender, aporagender, bigender, demigender, gender
apathetic, gender neutral, and on and on. God created two genders, and any other view demonstrates
an antithesis of God. It is a form of rebellion against God’s perfect design.

2. They were one flesh. God had created man perfectly, yet he lacked one thing – a partner. The
picture of the creation of woman shows that God did not create another organism to unite with man but
rather make his partner, his companion, his “completer” out of his own body. In this way, man is
completed. He now is the perfection of his original creation, existing in two beings so he can have what
no one being can have – companionship and fellowship. Now, man has counsel, partnership,
communication, and fellowship. Husband and wife are not two separate beings (or, as has been
suggested in a popular marriage book, from separate planets). Rather, a husband and a wife are one
body, separated at physical birth into two bodies, then reunited as one flesh existing in two bodies by
the power of God. Also, this is the picture that Jesus and later Paul used to describe the relationship
between Christ and the Church.

3. They were naked. This is not a commentary on clothes but rather on the aspect of the marriage
relationship that shows that a husband and wife should have nothing to hide from each other and from
God. If you find yourself desiring to keep something hidden from your wife (and it is not a gift), then it
is a sin. Husbands and wives are to lay themselves bare before each other. We should not have a

1 https://helpfulprofessor.com/types-of-genders-list/

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