As an aside, in Renaissance Europe, a young priest was sent to a particularly contentious Venetian church, whose penchant for brawling over slight arguments had chased away half a dozen of his predecessors.
With the congregation prepared to turn on him after his first sermon, he carefully chose as his subject “The sins of Eve”. And, somewhat disappointed, that there was nothing in the sermon suitable for a fight, for once, they had a peaceful time of things. Wait until next week.
But then, his sermon was on “The sins of Adam”. Same result. The week after that, he did a new version of “The sins of Eve”, and so on.
For 35 years, until his retirement. Back and forth between Adam and Eve, and what had been a belligerent congregation became peaceful again.
Wut?
There’s no such thing as a “Helpmeet”. She was a “help” “meet” [archaic, meaning suitable] for him.
Adam’s mistake.....picked the wrong woman?
Well, it went all wrong — right here...
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Adam’s concern was not fearing God, but losing his woman. It was a mistake men would make for generations to come. He did not understand that the God who gave him the first Eve would have given him a second, much improved Eve. But he must be willing to let the first Eve go. Adam did not understand that his faithfulness to God - and not his woman - would have saved them both, and eventually mankind from a world of pain and sufferings.
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That’s all speculation and you’re ignoring that evil was already in the universe, but just “hidden” at that time. You’re ignoring God’s plan from the beginning. Adam’s sin was part of that plan...
This is bogus speculation, and it’s not something that came from the Bible...
In http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/religion/2276746/posts?page=105#105
You said — Perhaps I put more emphasis on Adam and Even that planned as the article was more about letting go of a failed relationship. The emphasis was to encourage those in such a relationship to seek the counsel of God and not the flesh.
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I can understand that kind of teaching *outside* and *apart* from Adam and Eve, but that teaching does not come from Adam and Eve, which sets up the entire rest of the Bible on the basis of sin and what it is and how it came into the world.
And with Adam and Eve, there were no other people around. They were it and they knew it. And I see nothing to indicate or say that God would ever make another “Eve” for Adam. It’s *not there* in Scripture, so to “say that” in support of your idea of “letting go now” (of some other woman that may be dragging someone down) is just not Scriptural. There are other places in the Bible for that — but not in the Garden of Eden and not with Adam and Eve...