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helper suitable for him."

The word God used to describe the woman is “helper.” God saw that the man had a
need, and there was no other creature that could meet that need. It was necessary for God
to form another being specifically to meet the needs of the man.

Genesis 2:21-23
So Yahweh God caused a deep sleep to fall upon the man, and he slept; then He took
one of his ribs and closed up the flesh at that place. Yahweh God fashioned into a
woman the rib which He had taken from the man, and brought her to the man. The
man 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."

In the New Testament, Christ’s apostles base much of their instruction to women in
the church upon creation order. Man was created first. Woman was formed later out of a
remnant portion taken from the man’s body. Not only was woman created subsequent to
man, but she was created “for man.”

I Corinthians 11:8-9
For man does not originate from woman, but woman from man; for indeed man
was not created for the woman's sake, but woman for the man's sake.

In this passage the apostle Paul is establishing the governmental order that Yahweh
put in place between the man and woman. The man is given a position of ruling over the
woman, and the woman is to subject herself.

Genesis 3:16
To the woman He said, “I will greatly multiply your pain in childbirth. In pain you
will bring forth children; Yet your desire will be for your husband, and he
will rule over you.”

This testimony of the man being the ruler of the woman is repeated in the New
Testament.

Ephesians 5:22-24
Wives, be subject to your own husbands, as to the Lord. For the
husband is the head of the wife, as Christ also is the head of the church,
He Himself being the Savior of the body. But as the church is subject to Christ,
so also the wives ought to be to their husbands in everything.

I Peter 3:5-6
For in this way in former times the holy women also, who hoped in God, used to
adorn themselves, being submissive to their own husbands; just as Sarah
obeyed Abraham, calling him lord...

Sarah did not call Abraham “partner.” Sarah called her husband “lord,” and she is set
forth as an example for godly women to emulate. To hear it suggested that wives should call