Obviously, we need to start with definitions. But since I have not yet thought up my own or read a good, Biblically grounded definition of art, I'll start with what art is not.
"Art is the process by which all our emotions and feelings come bursting forth from ourselves as creative expression." I hear this a lot, in one form or another. It has also always seemed like a rather curious definition to me, as on the list of "Things That Come Bursting Forth From Ourselves" includes things like vomit.
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Just to harass you some more, I will ask-is there, in your view, a Biblical definition of what makes a woman beautiful. Now remember, any answer you give will be told to any woman you bring to my house to meet your parents. (but then again, maybe not, but you would just have to take the chance).
Yes. I also think, however, it is a big mistake to think that asking a question like, "Is she beautiful?" is the same as asking, "Who is the fastest 100m dash runner in the world?" To determine who is the fastest 100m dash runner in the world, the criteria are fairly simple. You get a stopwatch and time it. The question of beauty is equally objective, but the criteria are different.
Beauty isn't, first of all, a scale from 1 to 10. Maybe she has better hair, or she has better skin. Also there is more to beauty than the surface. But there is surface beauty and it is objective. "Now the man's name was Nabal, and his wife's name was Abigail. And the woman was intelligent and beautiful in appearance, but the man was harsh and evil in his dealings, and he was a Calebite" (I Samuel 25:3 NASB). Now I need to do some more reading and meditation to find out what those objective standards, but for now it's sufficient to know that the standard exists. Abigail was a beautiful woman, for God himself declares it to be so; and the beauty discusses in this particular passage was surface beauty.
But Proverbs furthermore emphasizes that a virtuous woman is worth more than fine jewels (Proverbs 31:10). One of the mistakes Christians make is thinking that because virtue is more important than a woman's beauty that her beauty then becomes unimportant. Scripturally, the importance of something is not a yes or no question; it is a question of how much and when. (Ecclesiastes 3:1-8)
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