Vive La Différence!
The man said, “This is now bone of my bones and flesh of my flesh; she shall be called ‘woman,’ for she was taken out of man.” That is why a man leaves his father and mother and is united to his wife, and they become one flesh.
Genesis 2:18-24, New International Version (NIV)
God determined that Adam would need a partner long before the Creation. However, God did not make Eve at the same time as Adam, as He could have. Was the pause between the creation of Adam and the making of Eve for the purpose of giving Adam a sense of incompleteness and loneliness without a counterpart?
God never does things without purpose, so this pause in time must have been part of the original plan. Adam surely observed that all the creatures God made had mates, male with female (counterparts). Eve was just as important to God’s plan as Adam was, and by Adam’s enthusiastic response to seeing Eve for the first time, I think he would have agreed.
Above excerpt taken from The Fulfilled Marriage: The Three Doors by Ted Dean, available at Amazon.com.
God bless, Ted
