Apologetics and Evidence

I want to be alone because I’m selfish and I want to be with someone because I’m selfish! Do you think you are gifted with celibacy? “Now for the matters you wrote about: “It is good for a man not to have sexual relations with a woman.” But since sexual immorality is occurring, each man should have sexual relations with his own wife, and each woman with her own husband. The husband should fulfill his marital duty to his wife, and likewise the wife to her husband. The wife does not have authority over her own body but yields it to her husband. In the same way, the husband does not have authority over his own body but yields it to his wife. Do not deprive each other except perhaps by mutual consent and for a time, so that you may devote yourselves to prayer. Then come together again so that Satan will not tempt you because of your lack of self-control. I say this as a concession, not as a command. I wish that all of you were as I am. But each of you has your own gift from God;

                I once felt lead into asking a girl out by the guidance and direction of the Holy Spirit. Yet, I feel like I took over the leading and that is when I lost her after a month of dating. To this day, I feel like God had led me to her in that manner. At first, our dates were good. I feel that because of my past, however (meaning that I was stuck in my behavior patterns), that I took things into my own hands when we were dating. The times were so enjoyable for both of us at first that I just wanted to have longer periods of them, as often as possible. Needless to say, things started to fall out of my control as time went on.                 I talked with my dad about a man I have known practically since birth whom I found out was a heavy equipment operator and I asked my dad if he was working (because times are tough and it happened to be winter months at the time) and he didn’t believe he was. I then asked him if he was a good operator and my dad replied that he do

                “The Lord God said, “It is not good for the man to be alone. I will make a helper suitable for him” (NIV Ge 2:18). I want you to keep this verse in mind for many reasons. In this section, I want you to think of it like God is the one who blessed us with her. In other words, she is from God.                 “But for Adam  no suitable helper was found. So the Lord God caused the man to fall into a deep sleep; and while he was sleeping, he took one of the man ’s ribs and closed up the place with flesh. Then the Lord God made a woman from the rib he had taken out of the man (Treat her as your own flesh), and he brought her to the man (GOD brought her to him/you).                 The 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.” For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife, and they will become one flesh ” (NIV Ge 2:20-24). Becoming one flesh is not

               “ The Lord God said, “It is not good for the man to be alone. I will make a helper suitable for him .” (NIV Gen. 2:18; see also Gen. 2:20). What does this say? Among many other things, it says that we need help! So, when do we need help? It is needed when our focus is on God’s plan for our lives and not when we are being selfish; we need help when we are in God’s will. Let's take this study further.                 What was God’s will for Adam? “The Lord God took the man and put him in the Garden of Eden to work it and take care of it ” (NIV Gen 2:15). God’s will for Adam was clear. It was to take care of the Garden of Eden and name the animals (verse 19). However, God saw, as we see in verse eighteen underlined above, that it wasn’t good for man to be alone; not because God messed up the way He initially desired to create man and have him be solely dependent, but because this way has always been His plan. Keep in mind that we are seeing this Biblical account