The LORD God said, “It is not good for the man to be alone. I will make a helper suitable for him.”
Genesis 2:18 (NIV)
You can argue with God if you want - fill your boots - I will stand to one side and watch OK?
You can say well God this verse isn’t for me, I am better on my own than I am with a woman.
You can say things like – everything was good in the garden until God made women – but just know that you are contradicting God, that you are saying the opposite of what God says.
God says that man alone is not good.
Did we get that?
God says that man alone is not good.
We have examples of godly men who were alone by choice for the purpose of advancing the gospel - Paul leaps to mind - yet Paul himself calls it a gift- that would be a special dispensation I think- a special grace from God to bless him apart from a woman.
It is true that singleness demonstrates the sufficiency of Christ in a way that marriage can’t, but that statement proves the truth of the need for man not be alone, because for us to say that Christ is sufficient in a special way for a single person is to concede the point that something is lacking for a man when he doesn’t have a woman.
We don’t have any Scripture for the opposite way- there is no Scripture that teaches that it is not good for the woman to be alone - could this possibly be because women are fine on their own?
We don’t know that for sure, but what is revealed by Scripture is that God made exactly what men need when He made women and that it is an act of blessing when God brings a woman to a man.
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