Read Part One HERE
In this post I will share the view of Tim Challies on Debi Pearl's book "Created To Be A Help Meet."
Tim's quotes from the book as follows:
Debi: "If you are a wife, then you were created to fill a need, and in that capacity you are a "good thing," a helper suited to the needs of a man. This is how God created you and is your purpose for existing."
Debi: "The only position where you will find real fulfillment as a woman is as a help meet to your husband."
Debi: "God's ultimate goal for you is to meet your man's needs."
Debi: "God has provided for your husband's complete sanctification and deliverance from temptation through you, his wife."
His comments on the above is as follows:
Throughout the book, Debi Pearl teaches poor theology, especially when it comes to her understanding of how a husband and wife relate to each other as the above quotes show.
Tim continues:
Looking to the first sin Debi Pearl says that the reason Satan tempted Eve was that Adam apparently could not be tempted. God has made men in such a way that they are nearly untemptable, but made Eve weak and easy to deceive. Satan, a masculine being, knew this, so approached the woman who "didn't have the armour to ward off his fiery darts of deceit." However, the Bible tells us that Eve was tempted but it does not tell us that this was due to a deficiency in her nature.
Too often Debi Pearl stretches Scripture far beyond its plain meaning, inserting ideas that are foreign to the text.
All through the book there is a notable absence of gospel and the endless accumulation of law. Debi Pearl never teaches the freedom that is found when a woman finds her identity in the gospel. Rather, she teaches that a woman's deepest meaning, her very identity, is found in her role as help meet. When the gospel is missing, we will always turn to law or to lawlessness. Debi Pearl turns to law, constantly giving rules and mandates and commands, but never grounding them in the good news of what Jesus Christ has done.
Debi Pearl shows that she is an unsuitable mentor; her counsel is too often foolish, her words too often harsh, her grasp of Scripture and theology inadequate and, not surprisingly then, her grasp of the utter centrality of the gospel almost completely missing. I would recommend avoiding this book at all costs.
My Comment:
I trust you will understand from the various quotations mentioned in the last number of posts on the book by Debi Pearl "Created To Be A Help Meet" that this book is not to be read because its teaching is unbiblical!! If anyone of you has ever received teaching on marriage along these lines then please know that you have been taught wrongly and you do not have to obey these man made rules. God loves you and has a wonderful plan for your life and if you are married then this is to be worked out alongside your husband as your equal partner.
P.S. In my next post I will share my teaching on the term "helper". I trust it will be helpful to all of you.
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