Man needed someone to see how much he could lift and to say "My you are strong". But there was no one, Maybe he took a lap around the garden and there was no one to say.."Wow, you are the fastest runner I know!" God made woman to sit on the sidelines and cheer when a man succeeds. God made a woman to sit in the audience while her husband preaches and say. "That’s the best preacher in the world". That is why God made woman. He made her to be man's help meet. God made woman for man! The word "help meet" means "completer." Like finishing a circle...a completion. No, God didn't see a child needing care and say "I'm going to send somebody down to take care of that child". He didn't say "that baby needs a diaper change, I'll create someone to take care of that". Nor did He say "there's a dirty house, I'll send someone to clean". And as much as we would like to believe this He didn't say, "I'm going to send her down for man to love and protect". God didn't send you down to be helped; God sent you down to help.
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[God made woman to sit on the sidelines and cheer when a man succeeds.]
Women are not here to give you a daily ego boost.
[God didn't send you down to be helped; God sent you down to help. ]
It takes two to tango you know. If you don't want to help out in a relationship, then don't get a girlfriend. AT ALL. Just die a lonely old man.
My fiance and I do everything we can to help and encourage each other. And our priest encouraged us to always work hard to do that in our premarital counseling. We're a team, not a competitor and his cheerleader. And I hope that the commenters here know that not all Christians are taught this "help meet" garbage.
On behalf of all women please allow me to say, up yours, forcefully, with a chainsaw wrapped in rusty barbed wire. Maybe you can get your little wifey to help you with that, you big, strong, manly man, you.
Wait, this makes perfect sense.
God created Man to worship him blindly because he needed sycophants to tell him how moral his genocides were.
Unfortunately, he created Man in his image, so now Man needed sycophants too.
So God created Woman.
Translation: Don't look at my tiny penis!
Or, on the off-chance that this is a woman:
Translation: Don't look at my friend's tiny penis!
Well, that explains this "help meet" crap. Interesting that not all that long ago it was called "help mate" which makes a whole hell of a lot more sense.
Aside from that, fuck you. You have absolutely no clue.
God looked down and saw a dirty house and said, "Hey! Those little fuckers have dirt in they house. What're they tryin' to do, make a bunch of men without me? Oooh, just watch me smite those bastids! Yo, down there. A plague upon thee. Ha HAW."
Actually, if God was supposed to have created man in his own image that makes sense. God is a self-centered douche who wants blind obedience and praise.
Edit: Oh Fanatic-Templar beat me...
Between the diction and the source, I'm thinking this is from one Dr. Jack Hyles (d. 2001)...
EDIT: All right, NOT Hyles, or even Jesus-is-Saviour. Still the same sort of corruption, though...
EDIT THE SECOND: On the other hand, it DOES sound awfully like a lightly edited version of Hyles's work...
http://www.jackhyles.net/completer.shtml
Wow, I never realized that men were supposed to be so hilariously, pathetically insecure.
As for the "help meet" bit -- in the (King James Version) original language, it was recognized as two words. In earlier modern English, "meet" as an adjective meant (roughly) "appropriate". So a "help meet" was an "appropriate companion", more or less. This is what happens when fundies get a hard-on for archaicism for its own sake when they don't even know what their book is saying .
True genesis story:
God was bored so he created man. Then he saw that man was bored, so he created woman. Now, men are boring women to death, women are boring men and they all bore God with ther problems.
Conclusion(or a message to learn if you prefer): When you 're bored, play Solitaire. It will save you a lot of trouble in the long run.
STOP SAYING "HELP MEET"!!
It does not mean 'completer'. 'Help' means 'help' and 'meet' means 'suitable for'. 'A help meet for Adam' means 'a helper suitable for Adam'. Eve was not a 'help meet', she was a 'helper'.
And while I'm here, STOP BEING SUCH A MYSOGINISTIC RETARD AS WELL!!
and why would the only man in existence at that time need someone to tell him he was the strongest and fastest?
1. There ought to be a dictionary of fundyisms, like "help meet", "raising up a child", "witness" (as a verb),"convict" (meaning convince), etc.
2. My wife always congratulates me when I do a good job washing the dishes, putting a crease in her slacks or arranging a center piece. She is a great help meet!
Back when there was one man, he needed to be told that he was "the fastest runner I know"? Now there's a needy personality.
You fail human relationships forever. Also, given your take on "help meet," you fail reading comprehension forever. Oh, heck, you fail life forever.
Reminds me of the night my neighbor called at 1:00 am and asked if I could tell if someone were dead. Turns out her husband had come home drunk and abusive, and she had hit him in the head with her grandmother's cast-iron frying pan. Is that the kind of "helpmeet" you were thinking of?
(He survived, btw, did some time for domestic abuse, and paid handsomely for his divorce.)
I hate to break it to you but if you go to the site you will see this piece on nonsense was actually written by a WOMAN!!
The whole site appears to be nothing but a homage to women knowing their place. It's really quite sad.
The word "help meet" means "completer."
To paraphrase Jed Bartlet, "Well, first of all, let's clear up a couple of things. 'Help meet' is two words, not one big word..."
Pedantic? Yes. But that's the only thing I can fixate on without wanting some .45 cal aspirin...for this dillweed, of course.
If she has no will and life of her own, why can she "disobey", sin and all the bullshit you proclaim?. For all that, she has to have total autonomy and free will. And if the man needs a helper, are you implying that he is a total idiot with no will or capacity of his own?
I wonder, in a Christian marriage as he outlines it, what does a woman get in exchange?. Hey, if the man is so great, he doesn´t need help, don´t you think. Ego bust indicates............inadequacy.
Confused?
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