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If God created Adam and Eve, how come St. Paul would later recommend that people be celibate as him?

The creation of Adam and Eve does not mean automatically that everyone should get married. St. Paul is not asking everyone to remain celibate, but he is recommending that if someone has the call to remain celibate, to do so as he himself did. He is not against marriage nor is he forcing celibacy; but as he said "But each has his own special gift from God, one in this manner and another in that" (1 Cor 7:7).