gengwall

That’s right Craig. That is the position comps take. The problem with that position is it entirely dismisses the eqaulity in Genesis 1 and it misses (or ignores) the whole reason Adam needed a “helper”. That position proposes that Adam needed someone to help him with “tasks Adam was given”. But that isn’t at all what Genesi 2:26 says. According to God, there was onloy one thing wrong in the garden that Adam needed any “help” with. It wasn’t the housekeeping or mowing the lawn or tending the garden or any other activities of daily living that comps seem to attach to the “helper” role. In fact, the only thing Adam needed help with was his aloneness. Eve wasn’t created to help Adam with chores or even to help him with ruling the animals. She was created to make Adam whole, to complete him, to be his soul mate. Once that is understood, the naming of the animals takes on a whole new light. It wasn’t a task associated with Adam’s rule, it was a task associated with Adam’s need for companionship. In that context, hierarchies and authority relationships are not even on the radar.