on Monday, April 4, 2011 at 11:52am
Genesis 2:18 And the LORD God said, It is not good that the man should be alone; I will make him an help meet for him.
21And the LORD God caused a deep sleep to fall upon Adam, and he slept: and he took one of his ribs, and closed up the flesh instead thereof; 22And the rib, which the LORD God had taken from man, made he a woman, and brought her unto the man.
23And Adam said, This is now bone of my bones, and flesh of my flesh: she shall be called Woman, because she was taken out of Man.
24Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh.
25And they were both naked, the man and his wife, and were not ashamed
That woman was made so man would not be lonely seems to be of limited discussion. Most of us, women especially, spend a lot of times looking for a great love. Someone with whom they can live happily ever after. But you notice God already loves man, so it was not love man needed. However God was worried about a lonely man. So he made him a woman, a help meet someone who becomes so much a part of a man as to make him and her together a unit working for God. Women are made to help, sustain and accompany man as much as they are made to sustain us in a similar fashion. This was before the fall however. How does the fall the great sin effect this connection.
Well God wasn't surprised that the fall happened. He knew in giving mankind free will and the ability to make choices that they would make bad ones. As with our own children we hope they will make good choices but we know they will make bad ones.
2 Corinthians 7:
8For though I made you sorry with a letter, I do not repent, though I did repent: for I perceive that the same epistle hath made you sorry, though it were but for a season.
9Now I rejoice, not that ye were made sorry, but that ye sorrowed to repentance: for ye were made sorry after a godly manner, that ye might receive damage by us in nothing.
10For godly sorrow worketh repentance to salvation not to be repented of: but the sorrow of the world worketh death.
Being fallen doesn't change who we are or what we were made for. God made exactly everything we would need to survive the next 7000 years without him. Sin has not changed our desire to not be lonely to search out someone. God made us social beings not so we could run rampant in sin but so we could cling to each other, respect, love and help each other through the tough times. We are made to be helpers. We have needs that God has set up right from the first. The need for love, the need for companionship, and the need to be useful. God gave us a beautiful world and told us to tend to it. He gave us male and female and told us to fill the earth. And we spend all our time trying to figure out how to save our world all by ourselves. And we try to do it by doing exactly the opposite of what God says. How do you fill the earth if are refusing to have children. How do you tend the earth when you live in big cities with no nature. Okay I love my indoor bathroom and being able to get to places faster with a car (I hate driving but I like being able to get more done in a day with my own car and I so love being able to see my friend Katie who is an hour away by car don't know how far that would be if I tried to walk it. ) I am however talking about what we are suppose to do and you can correct me if I am wrong and you can actually tell me where in the bible he resended his command to fill and tend the earth. But if Marriage didn't end with Eden I doubt the fill and tend the earth ended then either. If God is the God of our hearts, minds and body, then he is the God of our wombs too. He decides the children we will and won't have. How many times does it say in Genesis alone that he closed or opened a womb. Do we really think that has changed
21And the LORD God caused a deep sleep to fall upon Adam, and he slept: and he took one of his ribs, and closed up the flesh instead thereof; 22And the rib, which the LORD God had taken from man, made he a woman, and brought her unto the man.
23And Adam said, This is now bone of my bones, and flesh of my flesh: she shall be called Woman, because she was taken out of Man.
24Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh.
25And they were both naked, the man and his wife, and were not ashamed
That woman was made so man would not be lonely seems to be of limited discussion. Most of us, women especially, spend a lot of times looking for a great love. Someone with whom they can live happily ever after. But you notice God already loves man, so it was not love man needed. However God was worried about a lonely man. So he made him a woman, a help meet someone who becomes so much a part of a man as to make him and her together a unit working for God. Women are made to help, sustain and accompany man as much as they are made to sustain us in a similar fashion. This was before the fall however. How does the fall the great sin effect this connection.
Well God wasn't surprised that the fall happened. He knew in giving mankind free will and the ability to make choices that they would make bad ones. As with our own children we hope they will make good choices but we know they will make bad ones.
2 Corinthians 7:
8For though I made you sorry with a letter, I do not repent, though I did repent: for I perceive that the same epistle hath made you sorry, though it were but for a season.
9Now I rejoice, not that ye were made sorry, but that ye sorrowed to repentance: for ye were made sorry after a godly manner, that ye might receive damage by us in nothing.
10For godly sorrow worketh repentance to salvation not to be repented of: but the sorrow of the world worketh death.
Being fallen doesn't change who we are or what we were made for. God made exactly everything we would need to survive the next 7000 years without him. Sin has not changed our desire to not be lonely to search out someone. God made us social beings not so we could run rampant in sin but so we could cling to each other, respect, love and help each other through the tough times. We are made to be helpers. We have needs that God has set up right from the first. The need for love, the need for companionship, and the need to be useful. God gave us a beautiful world and told us to tend to it. He gave us male and female and told us to fill the earth. And we spend all our time trying to figure out how to save our world all by ourselves. And we try to do it by doing exactly the opposite of what God says. How do you fill the earth if are refusing to have children. How do you tend the earth when you live in big cities with no nature. Okay I love my indoor bathroom and being able to get to places faster with a car (I hate driving but I like being able to get more done in a day with my own car and I so love being able to see my friend Katie who is an hour away by car don't know how far that would be if I tried to walk it. ) I am however talking about what we are suppose to do and you can correct me if I am wrong and you can actually tell me where in the bible he resended his command to fill and tend the earth. But if Marriage didn't end with Eden I doubt the fill and tend the earth ended then either. If God is the God of our hearts, minds and body, then he is the God of our wombs too. He decides the children we will and won't have. How many times does it say in Genesis alone that he closed or opened a womb. Do we really think that has changed
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