On the Theology of the Body: Volume II: Part III: The First Unity of Man and Woman

Let us do a meditation on the "sleep of Adam."

As we read in Scripture; God put Adam into a deep sleep to remove a rib and some flesh to make the woman; Eve. God closes the gap in Adam's side with Eve's flesh. Then they; Adam and Eve; awake and see each other.

Adam praises God for creating her; "flesh of my flesh." "Bone of my bone."

Also God says: "It is not good for Man to be alone."

Let us ask a question;

Why did God make woman for the man?

God saw that animals did not give the man perfect compaionship and the man could not freely love the animals; because animals can't love.

Now, God could of made another man; but the two men could only love so much.

With a woman, the man could freely give himself to her and also the woman could freely give herself to the man and both loved each other more the man with the animals or another man could.

So God gave the man a woman to be his match and also wife.

Because this way the rest of God's plan would be finished; we be made so we can share in His Divine Life.

Let us ask another question;

Why is it important for the unity of the man and woman?

To answer this, let us take a look at Adam's falling a sleep.

We could think of the sleep as in medical terms or in this other term: Adam does fall asleep but falls asleep looking for the finding a being like himself.

The importance of the unity of the man and woman; is that God didn't want the man to be alone and to finish the creation.

The man and woman were made for sex in their nature, however, that man is "body" that belongs to the foundation of this personal topic that is deeper than the fact he is also male or female.

In the solitude of the man before God made the woman.

But with the former is based on the man and woman as if two ways of being a "body" but the same human being created "In the image of God." (Gn. 1:27).

God bless