I've heard some pretty sad accounts by Christian men about the positions the wife/woman fill in a marriage. If these few verses doesn't answer the main question about why God created women as wives then we need (as men) to apologize to our wives for our ignorance.
Genesis 2: 20-24
20 And Adam gave names to all cattle, and to the fowl of the air, and to every beast of the field; but for Adam there was not found an help meet for him.
21 And the Lord God caused a deep sleep to fall upon Adam, and he slept: and he took one of his ribs, and closed up the flesh instead thereof;
22 And the rib, which the Lord God had taken from man, made he a woman, and brought her unto the man.
23 And Adam 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.
24 Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh.
1. She is a "Help Meet."
Help Meet does not mean a whipping post for all our ungodly emotions, undisciplined desires, or a personal servant.
2. He (God) took a rib and closed up the flesh. And the rib He had taken from man, He (God) made a woman and brought her to man.
Taking the rib and closing up the flesh shows that she cannot go back from whence she was made to be one, but that she would become one with him through the God ordained order of marriage.
3. He brought her to man!
God brought her to man. Man didn't date, go online, search bars, but God brought her to man. Get that picture? Man wasn't even looking and God met his need with a Help Meet that He deemed necessary as a life partner.
4. "Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh.
So now we are told by God to leave our father and mother and cleave to our wives, and become one flesh.
Notice how man is made whole again by "cleaving to his wife"? She can't enter into that rib area but she can "become one" once again by cleaving to each other. So man in the physical realm is, in a sense made whole again" by cleaving to his wife. So the wife/woman "by God's design" completes the husband/man so that the two can become one in the sight of God, from whence man is made in His image and likeness, and she in the man's image and likeness thereby in the image and likeness of God by coming from man. Man and woman become one person and both become in the image and likeness of God. Man first (first person in creation), then woman (second person in creation) through man.
Scripture says that "a man should love his woman/wife as he loves himself", "his own body!" Woman is a part of "his own body" through a rib creation. So he is commanded to love her with equal passion and devotion because that's the way it was set up in the beginning. Later in the NT this fact is discussed more with more guidelines laid out. You men should go look them up, the search will do you good as it will be in context not just this introductory version.
Every time Jesus was asked a hard twisted question that seemed to go against the law he would say "in the beginning" giving God's perfect design not the twisted version of the time He lived in. Any questions? Just go back to the beginning and the Holy Spirit will make all things clear to us "in His time.
Love God.
Love your wives.
Love one another.
Love never fails.
Love makes the people loved become "precious" in our sight.
Love
J&E in Tn
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