Why did the LORD make Adam a help meet?

[afaithfulone4u]

The answer is:
Because, before the fall, Adam was perfect made in God's image and did not consider himself of the BEAST nature, nor would he associate them as in a part of his family members as we see today in many homes. The creature in most homes and even in the world is more loved than the Creator or then their fellow man who God created in HIS IMAGE.. We should not still be in the beast image having the traits or mark of the beast. Dog eat dog, killing, coveting, uncontrollable urges, self centered etc...
Adam would not ever consider having a beast for his partner and neither should one who claims to be being transformed into the image of God(attributes)

Why...... they even have designer outfits for them and they are even ALLOWED to sit in our shopping carts like a child where our FOOD is kept till we get it home. We treat animals better than human's while our lost children seek our attention and are going straight to hell!
Are we worshipping the beast and becoming his image?

Gen 2:18-24
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.
19 And out of the ground the LORD God formed every beast of the field, and every fowl of the air; and brought them unto Adam to see what he would call them: and whatsoever Adam called every living creature, that was the name thereof.
20 And Adam gave names to all cattle, and to the fowl of the air, and to every beast of the field; but for Adam there was not found an help meet for him.
21 And 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;
22 And the rib, which the LORD God had taken from man, made he a woman, and brought her unto the man.
23 And 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.
24 Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh.
KJV

 

[Angelina]

Why did the Lord make Adam a help meet?

Simply because God said, "it is not good that man should be alone." :huh:

 

[mjrhealth]

What Angelina said

In all His Love

 

[afaithfulone4u]

Simply because God said, "it is not good that man should be alone." :huh:

So why didn't he just choose one from the beasts?

 

[Angelina]

...because God said "I will make a helper suitable for him" Genesis 2:18 since "no suitable helper was found." Genesis 2:20

 

[aspen]

you are way too caught up in this pet interpretation....

Love for animals is not wrong.

Sometimes I think Christians are hellbent on demonizing all joy in life.

 

[afaithfulone4u]

...because God said "I will make a helper suitable for him" Genesis 2:18 since "no suitable helper was found." Genesis 2:20

Exactly, he was not compatible with the animals beastly nature as we are seeing being paired up in this day and age. People would rather bring a beast than their own children of spouse places.
And, Yes! you notice it says that after the LORD said He would make a suitable helper for him... that He made the beasts and let Adam check them out first to see if one was compatible for him.. but he found NONE that match his criteria of being made in God's image, for beasts are not God's nature.

I do apologize that my question was not quite clear : )

you are way too caught up in this pet interpretation....

Love for animals is not wrong.

Sometimes I think Christians are hellbent on demonizing all joy in life.

I think animals are great! they are God's creatures and we are to have dominion over them and be good stewards of them and they are for enjoyment and work and wool and milk and food etc.. One of my favorite things to do is to go to the zoo, sea world, or wild animal park even watch NGC for I do enjoy all of God's Creation to look at and enjoy.
But!! When we start dressing them in clothes and choosing them as more important than humans?? Something is terrible wrong there.

 

[aspen]

Exactly, he was not compatible with the animals beastly nature as we are seeing being paired up in this day and age. People would rather bring a beast than their own children of spouse places.
And, Yes! you notice it says that after the LORD said He would make a suitable helper for him... that He made the beasts and let Adam check them out first to see if one was compatible for him.. but he found NONE that match his criteria of being made in God's image, for beasts are not God's nature.

I do apologize that my question was not quite clear : )


I think animals are great! they are God's creatures and we are to have dominion over them and be good stewards of them and they are for enjoyment and work and wool and milk and food etc.. One of my favorite things to do is to go to the zoo, sea world, or wild animal park even watch NGC for I do enjoy all of God's Creation to look at and enjoy.
But!! When we start dressing them in clothes and choosing them as more important than humans?? Something is terrible wrong there.

Yes.....

But, I believe what is wrong is that we need to elavate how well we treat human beings rather than lower the standard of treatment for animals.

 

[Angelina]

Exactly, he was not compatible with the animals beastly nature as we are seeing being paired up in this day and age. People would rather bring a beast than their own children of spouse places.

And, Yes! you notice it says that after the LORD said He would make a suitable helper for him... that He made the beasts and let Adam check them out first to see if one was compatible for him.. but he found NONE that match his criteria of being made in God's image, for beasts are not God's nature.

The bible does not state that Adam was checking them out to see if they were compatible for him. God brought them to Adam so that he could name them.

Please note Genesis 1
Genesis 1
24 Then God said, “Let the earth bring forth the living creature according to its kind: cattle and creeping thing and beast of the earth, each according to its kind”; and it was so. 25 And God made the beast of the earth according to its kind, cattle according to its kind, and everything that creeps on the earth according to its kind. And God saw that it was good.

26 Then God said, “Let Us make man in Our image, according to Our likeness; let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, over the birds of the air, and over the cattle, over all the earth and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth.” 27 So God created man in His own image; in the image of God He created him; male and female He created them. 28 Then God blessed them, and God said to them, “Be fruitful and multiply; fill the earth and subdue it; have dominion over the fish of the sea, over the birds of the air, and over every living thing that moves on the earth.”

God made every living thing according to it's kind and everything he made had seed within it so that it will produce others according to their kind. 1 Corinthians 15:38, 39. God made man/Adam a help meet according to his kind. Then God gave mankind dominion over all living things because man was made in the Image of God and therefore superior than the animals and every other living thing...

 

[7angels]

there are other options we could consider too. one could be that adam did not put everything into his relationship with God and thus became lonely. God seeing this provided adam a help mate. if God knew adam couldn't live a fullfilled lifestyle with God alone then why did God not create eve when God created adam?

another option is that there is a portion of Gen 1 that was found that tells a tale that God did create man and woman at the same time but woman rebelled against God and adam refused to rebel against God. once woman left adam got lonely and thus eve was created.

these are all factual possibilities.

God bless

 

[Angelina]

God commanded those he made, to multiply and fill the earth. Nothing there about another woman or that God would even create another woman if the first one rebelled...think about it! that would not be very wise of our very wise God :blink:

 

[aspen]

there are other options we could consider too. one could be that adam did not put everything into his relationship with God and thus became lonely. God seeing this provided adam a help mate. if God knew adam couldn't live a fullfilled lifestyle with God alone then why did God not create eve when God created adam?

another option is that there is a portion of Gen 1 that was found that tells a tale that God did create man and woman at the same time but woman rebelled against God and adam refused to rebel against God. once woman left adam got lonely and thus eve was created.

these are all factual possibilities.

God bless

Lilith?

 

[Angelina]

It's Jewish folklore... scholars believe that she was inspired by Sumerian myths about female vampires called Lillu...please keep to the O/P thank you.

 

[rockytopva]

:)

 

[Angelina]

Tee Hee! and so say all of us...now back to the O/P ^_^

 

[daq]

Because without "Eve" (spirit and "the mother of all living") man is only the soul portion of himself. Remember that there is neither male nor female for those in Messiah. The first anthropon is of the earth, soil-like, the second anthropon is a gift from heaven, (a man can receive nothing, except it be given him from heaven). Wherefore they are no more twain, but absolutely and literally one flesh: what God therefore hath joined together, let none put asunder. The spirit of the man must therefore must bear children; for Adam was first formed, then Eve, and Adam was not deceived: but the woman, (spirit) being deceived was in the transgression. :)

 

[HammerStone]

I don't know why we would try to read anything into a very simply stated verse already there:

Genesis 2:18 NLT
Then the Lord God said, “It is not good for the man to be alone. I will make a helper who is just right for him.”

Adam was alone, and so God created a help. Adam went through and named all of the animals presented to him but was unable to find a suitable helper. This, in all likelihood, is due to the lack of rational thought and communication, amongst other details.

I really don't see this as commentary on relationships to our pets. If anything, you'd be better simply letting Genesis 1:28 speak. Many versions say that God gave man dominion over animals. A king takes care of his kingdom.

There are many idols - the human heart is an idol factory as John Calvin so wisely said - but I don't view an animal sitting in a car as a particularly egregious sin.

This is one of those cases with a more or less correct ideal in that an animal can become an idol, but with bad theology and a wrong emphasis.

 

[afaithfulone4u]

Yes.....

But, I believe what is wrong is that we need to elavate how well we treat human beings rather than lower the standard of treatment for animals.

Absolutely we must elevate man's standards, not lower them to being one with the beasts. That is exactly what I am saying.
We should treat animals with care.. not worshipping them or considering them as equal to or more favored than our family members.

I don't know why we would try to read anything into a very simply stated verse already there:

Genesis 2:18 NLT
Then the Lord God said, “It is not good for the man to be alone. I will make a helper who is just right for him.”

Adam was alone, and so God created a help. Adam went through and named all of the animals presented to him but was unable to find a suitable helper. This, in all likelihood, is due to the lack of rational thought and communication, amongst other details.

I really don't see this as commentary on relationships to our pets. If anything, you'd be better simply letting Genesis 1:28 speak. Many versions say that God gave man dominion over animals. A king takes care of his kingdom.

There are many idols - the human heart is an idol factory as John Calvin so wisely said - but I don't view an animal sitting in a car as a particularly egregious sin.

This is one of those cases with a more or less correct ideal in that an animal can become an idol, but with bad theology and a wrong emphasis.

First of all if you notice that after the LORD said it was not good for man to be alone and that he was going to make him a help meet, God did not immediately create EVE after saying this.. He created the beasts first for Adam to consider as a partner..Right? So what is that saying to us?
It is saying that Adam was not willing to be compatible to a beast and could not find a suitable companion just as those who are being restored in the LAST ADAM in Christ. It does not mean to hate animals, nor mistreat them we are to care for them AS ANIMALS not dress them and prefer them as humans.
Gen 2:18-20

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.

19 And out of the ground the LORD God formed every beast of the field, and every fowl of the air; and brought them unto Adam to see what he would call them: and whatsoever Adam called every living creature, that was the name thereof.

20 And Adam gave names to all cattle, and to the fowl of the air, and to every beast of the field; but for Adam there was not found an help meet for him.
KJV

Because without "Eve" (spirit and "the mother of all living") man is only the soul portion of himself. Remember that there is neither male nor female for those in Messiah. The first anthropon is of the earth, soil-like, the second anthropon is a gift from heaven, (a man can receive nothing, except it be given him from heaven). Wherefore they are no more twain, but absolutely and literally one flesh: what God therefore hath joined together, let none put asunder. The spirit of the man must therefore must bear children; for Adam was first formed, then Eve, and Adam was not deceived: but the woman, (spirit) being deceived was in the transgression. :)

That is right daq,
Just as God is all attributes of male and female and Adam was made in the spiritual image of God having all attributes of Adam and eventually God took Eve OUT of Adam and they became one flesh.
Adam could not find a suitable partner among the beasts which are of a different flesh than man that was created in God's image which was at that time Spirit led and without genitals before the fallen nature. Just as those who are truly in the Spirit will no longer have children in the resurrection, just as the first Adam when God created the beings and they were not naturally birthed.
The scripture is revealing to us how the beasts and man are totally different in flesh and we are not to join ourselves to them to take on their ways, but we can learn from them.
They are for work, wool, food as in dairy, eggs etc.. not for being members of a family but as assets or possesions.
Eve was the mother of all the "LIVING" meaning alive to God by His Spirit the Breath of life. Fallen man has natural children as we seen happened just after God gave them carnal flesh after the fall when they died spiritually and the Word of life(tree of life/Christ) was hidden from them and the Spirit left them.
But those of the Spirit birth spiritual children which God Father's and the Holy Ghost mother's as she washes us with the Word of God's wisdom.
Prov 3:15-19
15 She(Wisdom,Holy Ghost) is more precious than rubies: and all the things thou canst desire are not to be compared unto her.
16 Length of days is in her right hand; and in her left hand riches and honour.
17 Her ways are ways of pleasantness, and all her paths are peace.
18 She is a tree of life to them that lay hold upon her: and happy is every one that retaineth her.
19 The LORD by wisdom hath founded the earth; by understanding hath he established the heavens.

Prov 8:14 Counsel is mine, and sound wisdom: I am understanding; I have strength.
15 By me kings reign, and princes decree justice.
16 By me princes rule, and nobles, even all the judges of the earth.
KJV
For flesh and blood or carnal man can not inherit the kingdom of God for they are carnally minded being led of their fleshly lusts. Only those of a higher standard being born from above by the Holy Ghost can be of a like mind of Christ to be worthy to rule and reign on the earth OVER the beasts not equal to them.

1 Cor 15:38-40
38 But God giveth it a body as it hath pleased him, and to every seed his own body.
39 All flesh is not the same flesh: but there is one kind of flesh of men, another flesh of beasts, another of fishes, and another of birds.
40 There are also celestial bodies, and bodies terrestrial: but the glory of the celestial is one, and the glory of the terrestrial is another.
KJV

Cain had the anti-Christ spirit of his father the devil and displayed ungodly behavior like the beasts that care not for his brother, but only himself and instead of raising his standards to that of his good brother Abel who God favored... he just decided to lower himself in the dust of the earth(fallen beast nature) to kill off his competition as in dog eat dog so that there was nothing to compare his standards to and he could be on top.

 

[Angelina]

First of all if you notice that after the LORD said it was not good for man to be alone and that he was going to make him a help meet, God did not create EVE.. He created the beasts for Adam to consider as a partner..Right? So what is that saying to us?

God did not create animals for Adam at all...he created the animals first...in the first part of the sixth day Genesis 1:24...then he created Adam Genesis 1:26. You do not need to spiritualize everything written in the bible...Some things just are, what they are... :huh:

 

[afaithfulone4u]

The bible does not state that Adam was checking them out to see if they were compatible for him. God brought them to Adam so that he could name them.

Please note Genesis 1
Genesis 1
24 Then God said, “Let the earth bring forth the living creature according to its kind: cattle and creeping thing and beast of the earth, each according to its kind”; and it was so. 25 And God made the beast of the earth according to its kind, cattle according to its kind, and everything that creeps on the earth according to its kind. And God saw that it was good.

26 Then God said, “Let Us make man in Our image, according to Our likeness; let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, over the birds of the air, and over the cattle, over all the earth and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth.” 27 So God created man in His own image; in the image of God He created him; male and female He created them. 28 Then God blessed them, and God said to them, “Be fruitful and multiply; fill the earth and subdue it; have dominion over the fish of the sea, over the birds of the air, and over every living thing that moves on the earth.”

God made every living thing according to it's kind and everything he made had seed within it so that it will produce others according to their kind. 1 Corinthians 15:38, 39. God made man/Adam a help meet according to his kind. Then God gave mankind dominion over all living things because man was made in the Image of God and therefore superior than the animals and every other living thing...

Gen 2:20
20 And Adam gave names to all cattle, and to the fowl of the air, and to every beast of the field; but for Adam there was not found an help meet for him.
KJV
Your in error because you are using the creation of the 6th day man that was created after the fall of man and after the flood of the world of old.
2 Peter 2:5
5 And spared not the old world{of Gen1:1 NOT of Gen.1:2}, but saved Noah the eighth person, a preacher of righteousness, bringing in the flood upon the world of the ungodly;
KJV
Notice it says God said and not the LORD God? Adam was created before all other things. Those after Gen 1:2 were created AFTER all things. Please read Gen.2 as to the GENERATIONS OF THE HEAVENS AND THE EARTH where Adam knew God as LORD God, not as in just God.

Gen 2:4-8
4 These are the generations of the heavens and of the earth when they were created, in the day that the LORD God made the earth and the heavens,
5 And every plant of the field before it was in the earth, and every herb of the field before it grew: for the LORD God had not caused it to rain upon the earth, and there was not a man to till the ground.
6 But there went up a mist from the earth, and watered the whole face of the ground.
7 And[THEN} the LORD God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul.
8 And the LORD God planted a garden eastward in Eden; and there he put the man whom he had formed.
KJV

Notice it says BEFORE all other things, Adam was created by as a single being by THE LORD God. Now take a look at the wording in Gen.1:2 creation and you will see that these due to their now fallen nature were created by GOD.. not the LORD God as in a personal relationship as Adam had. These were created AFTER all things and created now as male and female at the same time unlike the First Adam.

God did not create animals for Adam at all...he created the animals first...in the first part of the sixth day Genesis 1:24...then he created Adam Genesis 1:26. You do not need to spiritualize everything written in the bible...Some things just are, what they are... :huh:

Again you are in error and are talking about the 2 nd earth age that we are in now.. The 3rd Day or earth's AGE will be when the new heaven and earth are created. God is God of all the earth.. but blessed is he who calls upon the name(Word) of the LORD/Lord(authority to live by as in personal relationship )

:)

2 Tim 3:14-17
14 But continue thou in the things which thou hast learned and hast been assured of, knowing of whom thou hast learned them;
15 And that from a child thou hast known the holy scriptures, which are able to make thee wise unto salvation through faith which is in Christ Jesus.
16 All scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness:
17 That the man of God may be perfect, throughly furnished unto all good works.
KJV

How can one find the hidden treasures in the Word(Christ) if you DON'T DO ANY DIGGING??