Do you agree that search for beauty (face) is our search for God's face?

Question

For centuries people have written and have created technologies that tries to perfect beauty. Divine proportion, myths, arts etc. all of these caters to our understanding of what is said to be "beautiful"; and have shaped and infuenced our perception of of it. But why do we long for beauty? I personally think that our search for beauty is related with our search for God/god's face. Why? Theologists would say that God has no face since God is a spirit, thus God is only characterized by the things he does and the things that He can do. In GEnesis we are also told that "God created us in HIs own image and in HIs likeness" off course this refers to our "God-like" ability (to think, to reproduce, to love etc.). IF this is so, then isn't it strange that the "good-guys" in myths, fairy tales, perhaps even in the bible look "beautiful". note: BEauty is also characterized by poets such as Dante Aligheri as "life-saving"(remember beatriz)

Answer 1

No, it's our search for our own face. You will notice that what a culture defines as beautiful is what is in that culture. We created god in our image, not the other way around.

Answer 2

Not at all. Psychology and anthropology have already found that even as infants and across all cultures we focus on the most balanced and pleasing faces and bodies. The theory is that we have an innate drive to support and protect the most healthy and "perfect" specimens for the enhancement of the human race. This is as strong a natural bias as racism or fear of anyone different, which supports the continuance of similar/family genes. The bias doesn't occur in myths, etc, because of any outside cause. It's just universal among humans and is expressed in anything we do. I am a Christian and I just think the beauty bias is a failing, not a virtue. Physical beauty is overrated and we should have learned to look beyond it by now.

Answer 3

Beauty is just something pleasing, whether it is translated on the inside or outside. Think about when you were a little kid, you'd just assume that the pretty popular kids were nice just because they were pretty, they were pleasing to look at. How could something so nice be bad? An ugly face can really freak people out.. Some people are severely harassed just because their faces are so displeasing. It makes sense why people use the ugly person to be the villain. It’s unfortunate, but makes perfect sense. Personally I have always noticed that the pretty golden people were usually good guys and the brunette ugly characters were usually bad. I always thought that was lame. Also, don't take things from the Bible so literally. I'm Catholic and was taught God is a fulfillment of both sexes, but is referred to as male. I do not think he looks like us physically, but he IS us, because his is in us all. It's silly to think that ugly things are bad.

Answer 4

interesting topic.
You may have a true subject.
however psychology mentions the need to love our mothers and fathers, not just Adam and EVE or God and the Queenof heaven.
but there is something else called Confusion of FACE where too many faces that look alike because of inbreeding. this confusion causes pain and sorrow, in trying to choose a mate.
Procreation might not depend on how good a person looks but rather about the kinds and types of hormones a person is receptive too. Though beauty can be a form of love all by itself and also be a greater dilusional side affect.
When i look at people I try to SEE whats going on in their life, not just to find God.

Answer 5

You are right.
From the relative beauty in the physical world and from the illuminating Beauty of His Divine Manifestations, we learn about the divine Beauty which is beyond all descriptions. A person sacrifies his life for mankind is a great beauty which shows a glimpse of the love of God which nurtures His creatures visible and invisible in all worlds.

Answer 6

To an off-the-cuff observer, the sunlight looks to upward thrust. And hypothetical Gods have consistently been a handy thank you to pretend we at the instant are not so ignorant. however the horizon rolls out of how or the line between observer and sunlight and there has on no account been the slightest data that any hypothetical God ever lived. -- Regards, John Popelish

Answer 7

First, let me correct you: GENESIS says 'Let US create a man in OUR image and after OUR likeness'. ;)

Here the plural is CRUCIAL, because it's referred to a moltitude of non-Earthlings, and not to JUST ONE of them;).

According to the Sumerians, the Annunaki had fair skin and eyes; when Noah ( Ziusudra was his original name as reported by the Sumerians) was born, his birth was regarded as an extraordinary event since (as both, the Book of Enoch, and the Sumerian texts report), his hair was as white as wool, his skin as white as snow and his eyes sky/sun rays-colored ); and that was so extraordinary that his father Lamech doubted that Noah was his own son, since he looked just like ' a child of the Angels'; human beings, instead, were diffferent: the first Man (Adama= He who's like the Earth's Clay), in facts, had black hair and dark red (clay like) skin, whereas the first Woman (Ti-Amat= Lady of Lİfe) had fair skin and beach sand color hair; this explains why, in every culture, having blond hair and fair skin, is considered to be beautiful; (I personally find Black people much more beautiful that whites). So, beauty, as a concept, is something associated with those Lords/Ladies who came down to Earth long long time ago. The more a human being resembled them, the more beautiful he/she was considered to be. Mankind alway imitated, better say, tried to imitate the 'perfection' of those powerful people who were not Earthlings.

Answer 8

Hi. I agree with you. And I don't think it's only with beauty. Basically, everything man does is to satisfy that yearning for the divine. People go to fortune-tellers, do drugs, live a life of partying, etc. because -- for me -- deep down, they're really searching for God, even if they don't know it, or won't admit it. We all have a God-shaped hole in all of us. :)

Answer 9

Yes, I would.

Have you studied Plato's Allegory of the Cave as it relates to the world of the forms? He believed that all beauty here was a merely poor reflection of true real beauty, which only existed in another place besides Earth.

Answer 10

Nope, God has no face at all. He is Spirit the Bible says. Beauty depends on one's idealogy or in his own perspective. i may call it beautyful but I think not all the you agree with me. Right?