Amen Happy Mothers day.
The word helpmeet must be defined according as to how it was designed to work when in regard to making two as if they are one. Like that of Christ, our husband and us, His church, the bride. The literal, I believe follows the spiritually understanding as we do walk by the faith of Christ that does work in us who do believe God..
But if our gospel be hid, it is hid to them that are lost: In whom the god of this world hath blinded the minds of them which believe not, lest the light of the glorious gospel of Christ, who is the image of God, should shine unto them. 2Co 4:3
It would seem that the devil has turned that meaning upside down to take away the faith (the unseen, spiritual) therefore hiding the gospel in respect to the suffering of Christ beforehand that was preached from the beginning to include the verses below..
And I will put enmity between thee and the woman, and between thy seed and her seed; it shall bruise thy head, and thou shalt bruise his heel. Unto the woman he said, I will greatly multiply thy sorrow and thy conception; in sorrow thou shalt bring forth children; and thy desire shall be to thy husband, and he shall rule over thee. Gen 3:15-16
The woman, representing His bride the church and seed singular used to represent the spiritual seed of Christ by which men are born again by and through.
Where seeds plural is used to represent what we do see the temporal, the nations of the world.. typified as Abraham, the father of many nations used as a metaphor in respect to our Father in heaven.
Where unto the woman, she represents the bride...... made up of male and female as with Paul declared as a surrogate mother, and even called Timothy as chaste virgin as another identifier of the whole church, as one who did not formicate with false gods.
Galatians 4:19 My little children, of whom I travail in birth again until Christ be formed in you,
2Corinthians 11:2 For I am jealous over you with godly jealousy: for I have espoused you to one husband, that I may present you as a chaste virgin to Christ.
The portion of the verse found in Genesis 3.... “and thy desire shall be to thy husband, and he shall rule over thee”. Is in respect to the bride of Christ, the whole church and Christ our husband in a spiritual way, that both males and females must get under equally...
In that way we understand that we do not need any man to teach us .it does not mean that we cannot teach but helps us to understand the warning in 1 John 2:27-28 as to the methodology of the antichrist that demands a man teach ignoring the promise that the holy Spirit that lives in us will teach guide and comfort us .Scripture is God’s interpretation to us, as it teaches us we must abide in him and not each other, who can help others comes to the same confidence we do have in Christ, when we do.
The same would apply to below the church does not have authority over the seed of Christ we abide in it.Men and woman together are to be silent in that way when it comes to final authority in matters of faith.
1Ti 2:12 But I suffer not a woman to teach, nor to usurp authority over the man, but to be in silence.
In a literal way woman are saved from not being able to have a higher position of submission of the two. This is in childbirth with her own sons. One of the reasons I believe the Jewish woman according to the scriptures seemed to hope for male off spring, as a gracious thing of God that could loving rule over their sons. In that we need woman to teach us men.
When my step son was growing up there were times when he would ask me to help make her stop trying to correct him. I would suggest you got her started and if you don’t learn how to listen with women ,when you grow up you will get an extension of your Mom. Same goes with the girls listening to their fathers.
The woman have the harder of the two as visual presentation of the bride of Christ . The men that represent Christ unseen need to help them as a help meet . This is seeing it is our love that they have to make their yoke lighter, as Christ is formed in His bride, the church.. We both need the prayer of the other in a hope God will work it for the good.
For Adam was first formed, then Eve.And Adam was not deceived, but the woman being deceived was in the transgression.Notwithstanding she shall be saved in childbearing, if they continue in faith and charity and holiness with sobriety. 1Ti 2:13-15
Why did God use Adam's rib to create Eve?
