We all know the old statement, “beauty is in the eye of the beholder”. Well, then what is beauty? If it’s in the eye of the beholder it must mean that there can’t be any true definition of beauty, because only the beholder can define it at that moment in time. It means beauty is constantly changing depending on the individual and what the beholder deems to be beautiful. The actual definition of beauty is: very pleasing and impressive to look at, listen to, touch, smell, or taste; so if everyone on earth has a different idea about what is pleasing, beauty can never be truly defined with a clear picture or clear statement. I can show one person the same picture, and they can see too totally different things. One may see beauty, and one may see nothing entirely special at all.
Then, why do we strive for something that cannot even be defined? What gives us that insatiable taste for what can only be described as beautiful? Could it be because our all mighty creator was just that, a creator? He created what was pleasing to him. In Genesis 1 He created light and he was pleased. He created darkness and he was pleased. It says it right in the beginning of the Bible that God created us, and he was pleased, and if you remember the definition of beauty it’s what is pleasing. So, if we are created already as beautiful in the eyes of the all mighty creator, why do we try and physically change our outward appearance, to make ourselves more beautiful? We are made beautiful already in the eye of our own creator.
Lauren Vopatek
Yes Lauren everything God has made is beautiful. I think Christ finds not our value and beauty on our outward appearance though but what is in our hearts. But of course because of the world we live in beauty is first though of the by appearance of looks then of a persons character.
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