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What it Means Biblically that Woman Was Created to be a Helper to Man - It is Not what Mainstream Traditional Christian pastors may be telling you. This is an excellent article helping one to understand God's design for men and women and unlearn embedded teachings that actually hinder "oneness" as God designed. Many do not understand the word EZER translated in Genesis as "helper." In our society and culture today, we automatically see that word as "little assistant" in submi...ssion to the one being assisted. Many miss the true meaning behind this little word "ezer" as explained in the article below. This is God's original design and the one available to return to if you are in Christ. The other idea came from fallen men, but those who have been restored through the cross to God, can again live out God's desire for equality and mutual reciprocity in submission.

ATTENTION HUSBANDS AND WIVES I understand this is not taught correctly in many places, nonetheless, It is not God's will for there to be HIERARCHY of AUTHORITY between husband and wife. At the Fall, the divine institution of the family had been commandeered by Satan, who transformed family units into strongholds of his evil kingdom. ... The subversive power of the gospel of Christ was designed to penetrate them, to explode the satanic structures that had kept God’s creation in bondage and to convert them into communities of the Spirit where male and female are mutually submitted in a living exemplification of the servant love that exists between Christ and the church. Mutual submission as members of ONE FLESH is God's design seen in the Scripture.