A couple of things . . .

"I sometimes think Adam and Eve were Russians. They didn't have a roof over their head, nothing to wear, but they had one apple between them and they thought that was Paradise."--Ronald Reagan

"Eve was not taken out of Adam's head to top him, neither out of his feet to be trampled on by him, but out of his side to be equal with him, under his arm to be protected by him, and near his heart to be loved by him."--Matthew Henry

"Since antiquity, one story has stood at the center of every conversation about men and women. One couple has been the battleground for human relationships and sexual identity. That couple is Adam and Eve."--Bruce Feiler

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Biblically, God created Eve for the purpose of providing a wife for Adam. God Himself created marriage as an institution for the basic fundamental functioning of humanity on the planet.

“The word ‘meet’ in help meet means ‘qualified.' You take your fingers and put them together and they meet. They come together. The idea is, ‘I’ll make him a helper; somebody to come alongside who’s qualified and capable of being exactly the help he’s going to need to enable him to fulfill the purpose for which I created him,’ " explains Richard Jordan.

“Well, He takes Adam out there and shows him all His creation and he didn’t find a help meet so God opens him up. I love what verses 21-22 in Genesis 2 say:

[21] 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;
[22] And the rib, which the LORD God had taken from man, made he a woman, and brought her unto the man.

“People say, ‘Don’t you know men and women are different?' That verse says He took the rib out of man. If you take something out of something, what did you do? There was something in Adam that was there to start with that God took out and then it wasn’t there anymore!

“Did you make the air you breathe? No, somebody else did. You’re a dependent creature and need to live in dependency upon others.

“That’s the way God lives, not solitary, but He lives in a fellowship. He never lives for Himself. He lives for the honor of His Son. The Son lives for the honor of the Father and the Spirit lives for the honor of the Son. They all live for one another.

“If God had created Adam out of the dirt and then Eve out of the dirt, He would have had two humans directly created by Him. When they sinned, He would have then had to have two Redeemers—one for each one.

“He took Eve out of Adam so there would be only one blood, one head of the human race, one source from which all of humanity came. Therefore, there can be one Redeemer for all of humanity. We call it the ‘Federal Headship.’

“The reason He took Eve out was so Adam would always live in dependency for his fullness on someone else. He could learn to live as God lives, for the good of others.”