OH dude, I think we opened a can of worms. Thanks for challenging the post I put up.  I had been looking for a word to do a word study on.  So I figured this is a good opportunity.

I just finished reading this book, Wild at Heart, and it expressed one of the beauties that I cannot even begin to fathom.  That’s when God’ created Eve.  When He created Eve, he declared her the pinnacle of creation (along with man, but mostly Eve– we were chillin outside the garden peeking in).  So this means that her beauty was unfathomable.

There is also a type of beauty that our MANLY God has.  Beauty being the honor that Jesus displayed.  He also has a beautiful crown (Isa. 28:5).  God also made everything beautiful in its time (Eccles. 3:11).

But check this diagram… It shows the levels of beauty as it relates to Biblical terms.

Like what you said, there is also a level of beauty on the inside where we would find God if we accepted Him into our life.  This is what I seem to fall in love with in women is when you can see this Joy, Love- aka Beauty.  But these types of women seem to have a little of each category above.

He even seems to think that tents are beautiful:

“How beautiful are your tents, O Jacob,
your dwelling places, O Israel!
The Holy Bible : New International Version, electronic ed. (Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 1996). Nu 24:5.

I have to agree with you. When we talk in terms of the God vs Devil battle ground on beauty, we have to look at both sides.

I am trying to think like CS Lewis and the Screwtape letters… If he were writing to Wormwood, he might say that he should direct his human to observe beauty as a physical fulfillment and Holy in nothing more than the physical aspect.  By doing so, it hinders the human from thinking beyond themselves as they are only looking at inner fulfillment based on the beauty that is received.

But if we focus on beauty as a servant, a servants heart can be considered beautiful.  And that kind of focus will be an outward pouring of beauty onto someone else.  Which is what Wormwood would not like to do.

Say God were to use a woman to try and win a man’s heart (lets call him her husband)– she could nag him “blah blah blah,” she could condiscend “why don’t you do this for me you turd,” or she could seduce (from within a marriage standpoint)– from the husband’s standpoint, which one would be prefer?  Hmm.

Well in that case, the concept of seduction within a Godly form is a use of beauty in its most physical definition.  But what else appeals to the man?  Of course the beauty that makes him feel like a man because she pours out beauty and she is also the pinnacle of creation, Eve.

 

One thing I noticed, what is it about eyes… Throughout scripture we see things like:

25 Do not lust in your heart after her beauty
or let her captivate you with her eyes,

Pr 6:25.

How beautiful you are, my darling!
Oh, how beautiful!
Your eyes are doves.
So 1:15.

So Eyes can be “destructive,” but even more powerful than that, they can be empowering and transparent veils to our heart.  Would one venture to say that the eyes are captivating by design? :D

In my own life, I noticed that I can see the amount of joy someone has and what heavy burdens they have just by seeking in their eyes.  You can see the level of connection / communication that they have with you when they make eye-contact, and its almost like acknowledging that level of respect of another human being.

With that said, wouldn’t you say it is amazing when God said that he saw that it was Good after he established the water, the sky, the light, the ground, the creatures, and even more importantly– he saw good when he created Eve?

What kind of Love is this? :D