Let Me Broaden Your Perspective On This Point Let me broaden your perspective on this point—that of building from existing materials (as He did Eve from Adam’s rib) and not simply creating the finished product exactly as God would want it—a wife for the Lamb that would be without spot or blemish, and that would be herself holy and deeply in love with her husband. It might be more easily understood why God could not simply create a loving and pure and holy wife with this following modern-day example: Computers of these last 50 years or so only do what they are programmed to do—nothing more and nothing less. If you turn on most any computer today it will beep and flash and come alive in a fashion much like any appliance (television, fax machine, a cell-phone, and many autos today, etc.). Once it is turned on it simply waits for you to make it do something or tell it what to do next—other than that it simply sits there idle doing only what you have programmed it to do in its “wait state.” But if you program a computer that has sound-making capabilities (type into its firmware or software the commands to) that at start-up it is to display a beautiful smiling face with lips that move and say, “Good morning, Sweetheart. You look wonderful today! What can we do together today that will make you happy?” that’s what it will do and say every time! Or how about, “Hello, Master. Your wish is my command—what are your instructions, oh great and worshipful one?” Now I ask you, are you its “sweetheart” or do you really “look wonderful,” can you be “happy” together, or does it really worship you? No, of course not—those are simply the things you have arranged in advance for it to do and say. Now let’s step out of the last 5 decades of computer advancements into this present time. In these days our technology has developed robots with the computer housed in a mechanical human form (including real-life faces), that now have a rudimentary vocabulary, some that are beginning to be artificially intelligent, that can carry on a limited discussion, that can execute a variety of man or woman-servant-type duties, and some that can even (shockingly enough) participate in certain sexual functions for and with a human. What kind of genuine emotions can you feel toward something that was designed, built, and programmed in a very high-tech lab to do such things? In a fashion, it was created to say what you wanted to hear, do what you wanted it to do, and be to you what you wanted. It does not do those things on its own but is what it is because it was made to be exactly that way. It had no say in the process, no choice in the matter of who it would serve (no free-will), and it had no feelings of its own by which whatever it might say or do for you could be judged sincere or original. The Father Wanted A Help Meet For His Son The Father wanted a help meet for His Son—but how could that ever be without doing this sort of “robot thing” with flesh and blood human beings? Creating a super-Eve for Jesus would be little more than like our society creating a high-tech robot in super-model form for a man. That may be okay for washing his clothes or walking the dog but it is little more than a super-toy that any thinking, feeling human man might eventually set aside like some new-fangled exercise equipment. The eternal Father wants something; He wants a living, breathing, thinking, loving and chaste bride for an eternity-long relationship with His Son, the Lord Jesus Christ. The Father wants a bride that has come to know His Son, come to sincerely love Him so much that she (all the chosen members of the Bride) had given up everything else they had known that would possess them and want to instead be devoted to Jesus for all eternity. By exercising her free-will she has turned her back on how she was born, that which are natural vanities in life, and while on the earth entered into a continuing purification process in order to one day be chosen to be His eternal companion—many without even knowing of that possibility. And yet, the bride of the Lord Jesus Christ is unlike any wife-to-be that has ever or will ever exist because she is not just one human being but is the assembly of many thousands or more formerly mere human beings, male and female alike, who with one mind and one heart all feel the same way about the Lord Jesus. Now to a man this seems an awkward thing—though not so much to a woman! As men we tend to think of a man and his “wife” as having to be male and female (as God created us) because of our perspective as human beings and especially as such a relationship has a vital sexual component designed by God for both pleasure and procreation. Therefore, from the Lord’s perspective let us look squarely at this issue and understand His meaning for this future bride and wife for our own understanding, especially for the men that are part of the Bride. Eve was fashioned by God to be Adam’s “help meet”; what will the close companion of the Father’s Son be about?