By the seventh day, God had finished creating the world and he put Adam in charge of the Garden of Eden. God felt that it was not good for man to be alone, and so God decided to make a helper suitable for him…
Genesis 2: 21-25
“ 21So the Lord God caused the man to fall into deep sleep and while he was sleeping, he took one of the man’s ribs and closed up the place with flesh. 22Then the Lord God made a woman from the rib he had taken out of the man, and he brought her to the man.
23The man said, ‘This is now bone of my bones and flesh of my flesh; she shall be called ‘woman’ for she was taken out of man.’ 24For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be united to be his wife, and they will become on flesh. 25The man and his wife were both naked, and they felt no shame.”
God commanded both the man and the woman not to eat from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. However, the serpent was crafty and it tempted the woman into eating the fruit. She then gave some to the man, and he ate it, and because of that, the woman had just caused man to sin against God. . .
Genesis 3: 17-19
“17To Adam he said, “Because you listened to your wife and ate from the tree about which I commanded you, ‘You must not eat it,’
‘Cursed is the ground because of you; through painful toil you will eat of it all the days of your life. 18It will produce thorns and thistles for you, and you will eat the plants of the field. 19By the sweat of your brow you will eat your food until you return to the ground, since from it you were taken; for dust you are and to dust you will return.”
Since the coming of ages, women have been the downfall of men and the downfall of empires. Take a look at the earlier story of “The Romance of the Three Kingdoms”, although not proven to be historically accurate, Lu Bu and Dong Zhou fell in love with the same woman, Diao Chan (“The Beautiful Enchantress”). She manipulated Lu Bu’s love for her and instigated him to usurp his adopted father Dong Zhou’s throne.
Similarly, the downfall of Emperor Xuanzhong of the Tang Dynasty came when he met the infamous Yang Guifei. Smitten by her apparent pudgy beauty, Emperor Xuanzhong indulged himself in the infatuation of Yang Guifei, and neglected his empire. When Yang Guifei hanged herself after Emperor Xuanzhong gave in to the demands of his soldiers and officers, he covered his face and let his tears ran unchecked….
Men’s greatest weakness is, sadly, women. Great men have failed because of women. “Women being the greatest gift God has given to men” is a fallacy. So, ponder over this paradox, if men were destined to not be alone and each find his missing rib (i.e.women), wouldn’t he be destined to sin and fail before God as well?
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