Debi Pearl's understanding of Helpmeet is not according to Scripture: Helpmeet P/7

                                        Read Part One HERE

In the last six posts I have focused on a  book by Debi Pearl "Created To Be A help Meet." From these posts you will have learned that Debi's understanding of the term " A Help Meet" is unbiblical.

Today I will share with you from my teaching on the subject "A Help Meet" or "A Helper Suitable" as follows:

We read of the creation of the man and the woman in Genesis 1:26-28
Then God said, "Let Us make man in Our image, in Our likeness, and let them rule over the fish of the sea and the birds of the air, over the livestock, over all the earth and over all the creatures that move along the ground."
So God created man in His own image, in the image of God He created him; male and female He created them.
God blessed them and said to them, "Be fruitful and increase in number; fill the earth and subdue it. Rule over the fish of the sea and the birds of the air and over every living creature that moves on the ground."

From this passage we can know that God created both the man and the woman to rule over creation together. This was to be done in perfect harmony, as a team on an equal basis. No one was to rule over the other, they were to rule over creation together. We can be certain that this did take place exactly as God intended it.

In Genesis 2:18 we are given some specific details about the man and the woman as follows:
It is not good for the man to be alone. I will make a helper suitable for him.

The word "helper" is the Hebrew word "ezer". It appears many times in the Biblical text and it always refers to a significant Being or person such as God, a king, a prince or a warrior. The word "ezer" underscores how necessary a "helper" is. It is someone who is of great importance, who normally will relieve another from an immense problem and who is a loyal companion. It is not the Hebrew word for a slave, a hireling or an assistant.

Does that mean that the women as the man's "helper" was created as his superior party? No, for that would go against God's design for the man and the woman. Therefore, the word "kenegdo" has been added to the term "ezer."
 This word "kenegdo" is very important for it describes exactly what kind of "helper" God had given to the man. It was not God's intention to give the man a "helper" who would be superior to him. Neither was it God's intention to give the man a "helper" who would be inferior to him. No, this "helper" was formed to be exactly suitable for him, matching him, fitting him, corresponding to him, a counterpart to him, opposite to him

The term "ezer kenegdo" is best translated as "a strengthener suitable, a strengthener matching, a strengthener fitting." We can, therefore, be certain that what God spoke in Genesis 1:26-28 that both the man and the woman were to rule over creation together as equal partners is confirmed in Genesis 2:18.

See my website: www.ministryto-silencedwomen.com/Abridged/Introduction

P.S. In my next post I will share my teaching on the word "tsela" which has been translated as "rib" in Genesis 2:22 to further confirm that the woman was formed as the man's equal partner.

 

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