What did God intend when He created the woman and instituted marriage?
Gods purpose was to give the man someone to love. God created us to love us. He desired to be in this loving relationship by loving us. He created the woman as a suitable helper. Adam found no suitable creature to be the object of his love because none had yet been created. So God made the woman. In so doing, He gave us a reflection of the relationship He desired to have with us. He created us to be the object of His love and in perfect harmony with Him. * How would the relationship between Adam and Eve in Paradise have been a reflection of the relationship we would have had with God before the fall into sin? What marriage would have been like in Paradise is difficult, if not impossible, to imagine. We dont fully understand what a perfect relationship with God would have been like, therefore we cannot imagine how a perfect marriage would have reflected it. They had a perfect relationship and walk with God which they would have reflected in their perfect walk. * How is marriage a reflec
