God’s first attempt to solve Adam’s loneliness failed — Are we supposed to be critical of God’s subsequent initial attempts at solutions?

God’s first attempt to solve Adam’s loneliness failed — Are we supposed to be critical of God’s subsequent initial attempts at solutions?

In Genesis 2:19-20, God identifies a problem: Adam is alone. He then presents possible solutions to the problem by bringing all the animals before Adam.

The Lord God said, “It is not good for the man to be alone. I will
make a helper suitable for him.”

Now the Lord God had formed out of the ground all the wild animals and
all the birds in the sky. He brought them to the man to see what he
would name them; and whatever the man called each living creature,
that was its name. So the man gave names to all the livestock, the
birds in the sky and all the wild animals.

But for Adam no suitable helper was found.

Obviously, God knew that none of the animals were suitable, so it was presumably God teaching by stimulating his loneliness, and was an object lesson to prepare him for the actual solution.

But could this section also be an invitation to the reader to meditate on God’s subsequent actions and question whether or not God’s solutions are inadequate and are there to stimulate us into appreciating actual solution.


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