Debased Art
The Lord is clearly interested in beauty. Some form of the word is used 76 times in the Bible. We are told that God "hath made every thing beautiful in his time" (Ecclesiastes 3:11He hath made every thing beautiful in his time: also he hath set the world in their heart, so that no man can find out the work that God maketh from the beginning to the end.
See All...). He so highly exalts the proper concept of beauty that He often associates it with holiness (Psalm 29:2Give unto the LORD the glory due unto his name; worship the LORD in the beauty of holiness.
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See All...). Unfortunately, men tend to pervert beauty as they do all that they touch. God reminds us that outward "beauty is vain" (Proverbs 31:30Favour is deceitful, and beauty is vain: but a woman that feareth the LORD, she shall be praised.
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See All...). Men corrupt beauty and make the "beauty of a man" a focus for idolatry (Isaiah 44:13The carpenter stretcheth out his rule; he marketh it out with a line; he fitteth it with planes, and he marketh it out with the compass, and maketh it after the figure of a man, according to the beauty of a man; that it may remain in the house.
See All...). Eventually, man's perverseness causes his "beauty to be abhorred" (Ezekiel 16:25Thou hast built thy high place at every head of the way, and hast made thy beauty to be abhorred, and hast opened thy feet to every one that passed by, and multiplied thy whoredoms.
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Recently, an art gallery in the United Kingdom received an exhibit from the Royal Academy. Unwittingly, the stand for the exhibit (made up of a block of stone and a bone-shaped stick) got separated from the sculpture of a human head which was to be placed on it and the pieces were judged independently. The sculptured head was rejected. The base was thought to have merit and was accepted by the gallery. So, too, we have rejected our Head (Ephesians 5:23For the husband is the head of the wife, even as Christ is the head of the church: and he is the saviour of the body.
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