2004 Term 2 Week 6 - Beauty

Definitions of beauty:
Looks good
Feels good
Tastes good
Smells good
Sounds good

We drew a link between beauty and God’s creation, and how beauty can draw out worship/praise.

Women exemplify beauty.
Men use and/or abuse women’s beauty.
Society’s view on beauty focuses on the physical element only, and only on a small proportion of the physical variations.

When men are threatened by women’s beauty it is men’s fault. If a woman walks naked down the street calling “take me. Do what you want. I don’t mind.” She is in no way responsible for the choice that men make. Men are solely responsible for their actions. It is Adam’s voice that says, “this woman that you put here caused me to sin”. It doesn’t matter what others do or say we are responsible for our own sin/choices. Jesus was surrounded by a culture that invited him to sin and he never did.

So then we started thinking about a better response to beauty. Words we used were:
Applause/Celebrate
Awe
What is man’s response to beauty to be? Stayed tuned for next week.