"Help Meet Not Help Mate"
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"Help Meet Not Help Mate”

Genesis 2:18 has often been made the subject of popular preaching and teaching rendering that God gave to man a woman as a "helper", "helpmate" or someone suitable to "help" him. But is that what it says in the Bible?

The term "help meet" in Genesis 2:18, has been and continues to be mistranslated by preachers in two ways – “helpmate” and “helper”. However there are no such words in the original text.

This term used in this passage of scripture refers to the delivering of man from his “being alone”; first, it is used in God bringing the animals to the man. But two verses later, we are told that the animals did not take care of this situation: "… but for Adam there was not found a help meet for him." (v. 20). The animals were not helpmates and helpers.

Then it is used when God brings Adam the woman for the same reason: to deliver him from his “being alone”. There is no such word in the Bible as "helpmate" nor "helper" as it has been misinterpreted. Here is what the Bible says…

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