Cheryl Schatz

TaWanda,

If the term ezer (English helper) means “subservant” than God is our “subservant” since He is called an ezer to mankind. We must not use the inspired words of Scripture and reinterpret them as God said what He meant. He never used a word that meant subservant. Instead of being a servant to Adam (or subservant as you indicated) Eve was created to be an equal ruler with Adam and these inspired words are from God Himself.

Genesis 1:27–28 (NASB95)
27 God created man in His own image, in the image of God He created him; male and female He created them.
28 God blessed them; and God said to them, “Be fruitful and multiply, and fill the earth, and subdue it; and rule over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the sky and over every living thing that moves on the earth.”

If you can show me the Hebrew word that means “subservant” then we can have a look at it, but “helper” (ezer) is not such a word. I recommend that you have a look at the inspired Hebrew words from a good lexicon to help wash away the tradition of man that makes God’s creation of woman to be a subservant of man.

Paul never once said that the husband has rule over the wife neither does he ever tell the husband to take rule over her. These are foreign ideas to the inspired Scriptures. If God had meant to say that, He would have because He is a God who says what He means.

The inspired Scriptures make it clear that women too are to rule over their homes and as equal rulers they have leadership.

1 Timothy 5:14 (NKJV)
14 Therefore I desire that the younger widows marry, bear children, manage the house, give no opportunity to the adversary to speak reproachfully.

The term “manage the house” is the Greek word oikodespoteo and it means “to be master of a house or head of a family,” Liddell, Scott, Jones Lexicon.

Just as Adam and Eve were to rule over the earth, so the husband the wife rule over the home and there is equal responsibility and equal accountability.

I hope this helps!