God Alone Defines What Is Good and Not Good

In Genesis 1, after each day of creation, God declared that "it was good". But when it came to Adam being alone, Scripture states,

Gen 2:18  Then the LORD God said, "It is not good for the man to be alone; I will make him a helper suitable for him."

God, Who is Creator and is all good, alone defines what is good and evil, right and wrong.  For man to be without a "suitable helper" wasn't good. It was, rather, good, for Adam to have a helpmate, just as all the animals had male and female counterparts, thus God created Eve, not separately, but from out of the rib of Adam himself.

Animals were not suitable mates for Adam. Being alone was not good.

Eve was God's good creation, perfectly suitable for Adam in every way.

Not another male (even with the animals in Genesis, we see male/female counterparts to populate the land), not animals, but a woman.

Gen 1:31  God saw all that He had made, and behold, it was very good. And there was evening and there was morning, the sixth day.

After God created Eve, God declared all His creation, "very good." Not just good, but very good. God was generous in supplying Adam and Eve, along with the animals, abundant food and water in beautiful surroundings, for all their needs.

God here from the start, defines what is good and not good. In chapter 2 He defines the limitation on what is available to eat and not eat (there's only one singular prohibition).

God says its not good for man to be alone.
God says animals are not suitable helpmates for man.
God designed a woman, a female, to be the suitable helpmate for man. THIS is what is good and perfectly suitable for man in every way.

Their intimate union in Gen. 2 attests to this fact, showing that such intimacy can never happen between man and any other being. Eve was made out of Adam's side, a compliment to him in every way.


Gen 2:22  The LORD God fashioned into a woman the rib which He had taken from the man, and brought her to the man.
Gen 2:23  The man said, "This is now bone of my bones, And flesh of my flesh; She shall be called Woman, Because she was taken out of Man."
Gen 2:24  For this reason a man shall leave his father and his mother, and be joined to his wife; and they shall become one flesh.
Gen 2:25  And the man and his wife were both naked and were not ashamed.