In Genesis 2:18 God says, “It is not good for the man to be alone. I will make a helper suitable for him.” The idea of being alone, or in this case, “incomplete,” was something that God cared about and remedied by making and bringing a woman to the man (Genesis 2:22). This text also, however, is a harbinger of what is to come later in the story, suggesting that the dark side of being alone—really alone: isolated, deserted, forgotten, dismissed, scorned, pushed out, abandoned—is a potential that God recognized.
