How (Not) to Read the Bible: Making Sense of the Anti-women, Anti-science, Pro-violence, Pro-slavery and Other Crazy-Sounding Parts of Scripture

by Dan Kimball

There are some questions that come up when you read this phrase in Genesis 2:18: “It is not good for the man to be alone. I will make a helper suitable for him.” It has been incorrectly taught that this verse indicates the woman is in some way less than the man when it says she was created as a “helper” for the man.