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Created to be His Help Meet (2004)

by Debi Pearl

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Somewhere over the passing years and changing culture, women have lost their way. This book is written to lead them back home. Regardless of how you began your marriage or how dark and lonely the path that has brought you to where you are now, I want you to know that it is possible today to have a marriage so good and so fulfilling that it can only be explained as a miracle. It took four years, thousands of hours, many tears, revisions and distractions, but I finally finished my book. I had no idea God had so much to say to us ladies until I began going through God's Word verse by verse, writing the different sections of Created to Be His Help Meet. Many times as I read a passage, I would say to my husband, "I'm not going to include those verses in my book because if I do the ladies (of any religious group you can think of including my own) will not like my book or promote it." My dear husband would say to me, "If God thought it was important enough to inspire it as part of his Word to us, then you should include it." And so I would cringe and add one more controversial subject after another. So in obedience with Titus 2, where God commands the aged women to teach the younger women, I have obeyed and given you the very best I can do - 27 chapters, 296 pages, including letters from my readers, recounting counseling sessions, wisdom gleaned from my daughters, my own very personal stories, and, of course, the Word of God. It includes subjects as varied as planning meals to answering extremely intimate questions.… (more)
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0 stars. I re-read this book for research purposes and had to force myself to finish it.

This is what I learned from it as I read: the men in this woman’s family / religious cult are abusive (I would never feel safe around any of them), and the women have so much deeply internalized misogyny that they work alongside the men to create their own doctrines, twist scriptures past recognition, and export their teachings so they can all continue to normalize the objectification of women and uphold a culture of abuse of women and children together. They train up their sons to be predators who only see women as sex objects. All whilst trying to spiritualize their abuse and blaming women for every sin men commit. My husband found it debased and appalling as well.

It would be better marketed as a textbook on gaslighting, as the author and her husband gaslight the reader all the way through it. It’s full of heresy.

I find it terrifying that they have translated this book into other languages and sent it off into other parts of the world.

I am 100% against burning books, but if I weren’t, this would be the first one I’d throw on the pile.

Worst book I have ever read. ( )
  erindarlyn | Jan 25, 2024 |
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  WBCLIB | May 2, 2023 |
Dangerous doctrine!! ( )
  KatieLynnLibrarian | Apr 17, 2023 |
"It is better your husband does it poorly, than for you to do it." Ah yes, on top of being so mad at your husband you throw rocks at him, being a wife who does nothing because men are the alpha in the house. If I ever saw someone treating their wife like this -and these books are meant to be used in present day- I would likely call the police or tell the wife she needs to rethink her choices.

This book is horrendous. I can't tell if Debi was coerced into writing this for profit or if she was also as brainwashed as her husband wants her to be, but this book is disgusting. ( )
  Yolken | Aug 5, 2022 |
"It is better your husband does it poorly, than for you to do it." Ah yes, on top of being so mad at your husband you throw rocks at him, being a wife who does nothing because men are the alpha in the house. If I ever saw someone treating their wife like this -and these books are meant to be used in present day- I would likely call the police or tell the wife she needs to rethink her choices.

This book is horrendous. I can't tell if Debi was coerced into writing this for profit or if she was also as brainwashed as her husband wants her to be, but this book is disgusting. ( )
  Yolken | Jan 3, 2020 |
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Once upon a time there was a silly young girl who grew up to learn what it means to be a HELP MEET - God's secret for a heavenly marriage.
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Somewhere over the passing years and changing culture, women have lost their way. This book is written to lead them back home. Regardless of how you began your marriage or how dark and lonely the path that has brought you to where you are now, I want you to know that it is possible today to have a marriage so good and so fulfilling that it can only be explained as a miracle. It took four years, thousands of hours, many tears, revisions and distractions, but I finally finished my book. I had no idea God had so much to say to us ladies until I began going through God's Word verse by verse, writing the different sections of Created to Be His Help Meet. Many times as I read a passage, I would say to my husband, "I'm not going to include those verses in my book because if I do the ladies (of any religious group you can think of including my own) will not like my book or promote it." My dear husband would say to me, "If God thought it was important enough to inspire it as part of his Word to us, then you should include it." And so I would cringe and add one more controversial subject after another. So in obedience with Titus 2, where God commands the aged women to teach the younger women, I have obeyed and given you the very best I can do - 27 chapters, 296 pages, including letters from my readers, recounting counseling sessions, wisdom gleaned from my daughters, my own very personal stories, and, of course, the Word of God. It includes subjects as varied as planning meals to answering extremely intimate questions.

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