Humans were created for social relationships.
Among the implications of the creation accounts in the first two chapters of Genesis is that the human person is a social creature in the very essence of his being. The human is created in and for social relationships. In the first creation account, the human person is created as “male and female”, indicating that neither is complete without the other. This is made even more emphatic in the second creation account, where God says: “It is not good for the man to be alone”, and in which the author indicates that the completion of the one is the creation of the other. Thus, each knows himself and herself, respectively, only in relation to the other. This social nature of the human person is an aspect of what it means to be made in the image and likeness of God, an eternal community of three persons in one being. This “dynamic of reciprocity that gives life to the ‘we’ in the human couple, is an image of God”, as the Compendium of the Social Doctrine of the Church (CSDC) puts it.
