15The Lord God took the man and put him in the Garden of Eden to
work it and take care of it. 16And the Lord God commanded the man, “You are free to eat from any tree
in the garden; 17but you must not
eat from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, for when you eat from it
you will certainly die.”
18The Lord God said, “It is not good for the man to be alone. I will
make a helper suitable for him.”
19Now the Lord God had formed out of the ground all the wild animals and
all the birds in the sky. He brought them to the man to see what he would name
them; and whatever the man called each living creature, that was its name. 20So the man gave
names to all the livestock, the birds in the sky and all the wild animals.
But for Adamf no suitable helper was found. 21So the Lord God caused the man to fall into a deep sleep; and while
he was sleeping, he took one of the man’s ribsg and
then closed up the place with flesh. 22Then the Lord God made a woman from the ribh
he had taken out of the man, and he brought her to the man.
23The man
said,
“This is now bone of my bones
and flesh of my flesh;
she shall be called ‘woman,’
for she was taken out of man.”
24That is why a
man leaves his father and mother and is united to his wife, and they become one
flesh.
In God’s design, human sexual conduct is to occur within the context of marriage between one man and one woman.
God said, “It is not good that the man should be alone; I will make him a helper fit for him.
What did he creat for Adam? A Woman.
Differentiation of the human race into two complementary sexes (“male and female”) is the first fact mentioned in connection with being “in the image of God.” Not Male and male or female and female.
Matthew 19;4 -6
The union of two, a man to a woman and the woman to a man is that they shall become one flesh.
He answered,“Have you not read that he who created them from the beginning made them male and female, 5 and said, ‘Therefore a man shall leave his father and his mother and hold fast to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh’? 6 So they are no longer two but one flesh. What therefore God has joined together, let not man separate.”
Romans1:22 Although they claimed to be wise, they became fools
23 and exchanged the glory of the immortal God for images made to look like mortal man and birds and animals and reptiles. 24 Therefore God gave them over in the sinful desires of their hearts to sexual impurity for the degrading of their bodies with one another.25 They exchanged the truth of God for a lie, and worshiped and served created things rather than the Creator--who is forever praised. Amen