The book of Genesis reveals to us the first person - Adam with brief touches: succinctly, but voluminously. He was a sinless man, created for eternity. The whole world obeyed him. He gave names to objects and animals, and they were subordinate to him. God once said: "It is not good to be a man alone." And he made him an assistant - a woman.
As it was before
Adam, waking up from a dream brought upon him, sees Eve in front of him and realizes that she is his particle: "You are bone from my bones and flesh from my flesh." Next, he pronounces prophetically the words that should become for centuries a slogan for family life: "From now on, a man will leave his father and mother and cleave to his wife and there will be one flesh." Modern people, too, somehow understand that they have met their one and only. And here it is not without God's intervention.
The apostle Paul, on the contrary, claimed that it is good for a person to live alone: "If you can, be like me." He promised that in creating a family, we will have tribulations in the flesh. The so-called Pavlovian loneliness is the loneliness of a preacher. In anticipation of the second coming, not passing death or any danger, loneliness is desirable. This is the fate of monks, ascetics and ordinary people who understand that there is something higher than marriage. Such feats are given from above and a distinct call to them is felt.
Previously, a person was spared from the care of looking for a wife. Parents did this, so the problem was that I had to marry someone who could not be like. However, in most cases, the life of such married couples corresponded to the saying: "He can stand it, he will fall in love." Now this burden lies with the man himself.
A search in any question implies a mistake, but no one wants to make a mistake in the question of matrimony. One theologian said: “When a young man meets the one that is destined for him and calls her beloved, changes occur in his mind. Before him, men and women existed for him. As soon as he has the love of his life, everyone around him becomes a gray mass without sex differentiation."
