What does it mean that God said it was “not good” for Adam to be alone?
According to Danielle Treweek, a theological author and the founding director of Single Minded, it doesn’t just mean that God thought Adam needed a wife. Instead, Treweek explains, God put a specific need in Adam: the need not to be alone in his status as the only creature on earth who bore the image of God.
“God created another human person made in the divine image—magnificently like the man but also wonderfully distinct from him in meaningful ways,” writes Treweek. “God created woman.”
Adam’s need was the same one that each of us, regardless of marital status, carries as an image-bearer. We need other people. Our instincts cry out not good when loneliness overwhelms us. But when we experience relational abundance, our souls shout very good.
This is wonderful news for women. Eve was not created simply to check the box of wife for Adam. Instead, Eve, and all of the women who have come after her, were made to further display and experience humanity as created by a relational God.
