“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; And the rib, which the LORD God had taken from man, made he a woman, and brought her unto the man. 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.”
The Lord made all His creatures male and female, however, He only made Adam and then used on of his ribs to make Eve. This demonstrates that Adam and Eve are different, before God to all the other creatures that God made.
All the other creatures needed to have mates so that they can breed and fill the earth but the Lord gave Adam his wife as a special gift. This is partly because they were both made in God’s image and both designed to have a relationship with God. This adds the extra emotional component to both Adam and Eve as they were made from the same material and they are designed to live in relationship with each other. Even though there are some people who have been called by God to live single lives the majority of people are designed to live in a relationship with a person of opposite genetic code.
When God calls someone to live the life of a single person they are given special grace to live under those circumstances. This is something that each individual has to work out in their relationship with God (see Matt 19: 12). No one else has the authority to demand that another person has to remain single in order to serve God, this is a pagan superstition.
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(The view expressed in this blog are my own and should not be taken as inspired in any way.)
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