This post first appeared on Kineti and is authored by Judah Gabriel Himango, one of Tabernacle of David’s teachers.
Dennis Prager on the foundational Biblical statement, “It is not good for man to be alone”:
I find Prager’s statement profound:
It says that male-female marriage is the divine ideal — when society says there is no ideal.
It says children are not a replacement for a spouse — when many divorcées burden their adult children as such.
It says that communities — even religious communities — are not a substitute for a spouse.
It says that marriage is the highest form of commitment — when society says two people living together is just as acceptable.
It says that men and women need each other — when feminism says “women need men like fish need a bicycle.”
It says that God sees loneliness as “not good” — in our age where divorce rates, out-of-wedlock births, and loneliness are at all-time highs.
It says monogamy is the best condition for human happiness — at a time when polyamory and sleeping with many partners is increasingly accepted as normative, and at a time when certain religious fundamentalists — Mormon, Hebrew Roots, Islamic fundamentalists — are pushing for a return of polygamy.
Does a relationship with God fix human loneliness? Prager says no:
“God declared Adam “alone” despite the fact that Adam had a relationship with God. The lesson? God declares that even He, God, does not fully assuage our aloneness. God is essential, but we also need people.”
