“Is that ‘Bear’ with a ‘B’, Adam?” |
Though the Lord made
Adam first, and though he tasked Adam alone with naming all the animals he had
created, it seems God always intended that Adam should have a wife. We read that he said,
“It is not good that the man should be alone; I will make him a helper fit
for him”.
Now God doesn’t always “say”. Much of the
time he simply thinks, and the universe is none the wiser as to what goes on in the recesses of the Infinite. God’s thoughts, one psalmist
tells us, are “very deep”. Elsewhere David says God’s thoughts toward us are “incomparable” and “too numerous to count”. He does not share all his thoughts with us. He
does not even share them all with the angels.
That should not be a big surprise. He is God,
after all.