Men are Like Peanut Butter and Women are Like Jelly

Many authors are writing books about how different men and women are. They have names like “Men are from Mars, Women are from Venus” and “Men are like Spaghetti and Women are like Waffles”. Most people would agree that men and women are different, but I contend that they are different in a good way.

To begin with, let us go back to the very beginning:

Genesis 2:18-24 Then the LORD God said, "It is not good that the man should be alone; I will make him a helper fit for him." Now out of the ground the LORD God had formed every beast of the field and every bird of the heavens and brought them to the man to see what he would call them. And whatever the man called every living creature, that was its name. The man gave names to all livestock and to the birds of the heavens and to every beast of the field. But for Adam there was not found a helper fit for him. So the LORD God caused a deep sleep to fall upon the man, and while he slept took one of his ribs and closed up its place with flesh. And the rib that the LORD God had taken from the man he made into a woman and brought her to the man. Then the man said, "This at last is bone of my bones and flesh of my flesh; she shall be called Woman, because she was taken out of Man." Therefore a man shall leave his father and his mother and hold fast to his wife, and they shall become one flesh.

God in His infinite wisdom saw that man needed companionship, and therefore woman was created. Please note that woman was the last thing God made and she was made specifically for man. I like to think that God chose the rib to show man that woman should be beside him, not in front of nor behind. He blessed the union between man and woman and saw that it was good.

Now let us look at what is written in the New Testament:

1Corinthians 11:8-9, 11-12 For man was not made from woman, but woman from man. Neither was man created for woman, but woman for man. Nevertheless, in the Lord woman is not independent of man nor man of woman; for as woman was made from man, so man is now born of woman. And all things are from God.


1Corinthians 7:14 For the unbelieving husband is made holy because of his wife, and the unbelieving wife is made holy because of her husband. Otherwise your children would be unclean, but as it is, they are holy.


1Timothy 4:1-3 Now the Spirit expressly says that in later times some will depart from the faith by devoting themselves to deceitful spirits and teachings of demons, through the insincerity of liars whose consciences are seared, who forbid marriage and require abstinence from foods that God created to be received with thanksgiving by those who believe and know the truth.

This is why I think men are like peanut butter and women are like grape jelly (my personal favorite). Both are good alone, but go together so much better.