Bible about beauty

Bible about beauty? Isn’t Bible only about our soul? No! You will be quite in shock when you’ll see how important is the beauty in the Bible!

LOVE YOUR NEIGHBOR AS YOUR… OWN BODY!

Verses in the Bible about beauty and the body have to show us what God says about the human person in order to understand what it is! In our world now, in the church we still can hear how people, bah, even priests, hierarchy of the church talking about the body. The sinner’s body, that beauty is not important, how you look does not matter. Here we need to understand the difference that the human body and beauty are not the most dominant things, but at least important: „So God created mankind in his own image, in the image of God he created them; male and female he created them.” (Genesis 1:27).

Bible about beauty

God created us as HIS OWN picture, he gave us BEAUTIFUL body, also His Son, Jesus – took a body from MAN – and science proved that Jesus was a handsome man, who loved his own body. For centuries we thought that we need only save our soul, but was it our body? Does God not want it? So why did he give it to us and tell us – this is very good!? We have to understand that science, psychology, theology and philosophy went very forward, they developed. We are in the different place that church was five, ten or twenty centuries ago.

Body and beauty is bad – how in happend?

In the first millennium the church was really strongly thinking that flesh and beauty outside the body is something bad! Until the XII/XIII century this kind of thought was present in the teaching of the church, fathers, priests and religious. Tho most popular saint – st. Francis from Asisi – he led a very ascetic life, exhausting his body and destroying it beyond recognition. And only at the end of his life did he realize he had done wrong and apologize to his body, which he called the donkey, for neglecting it so much.

Even I remember how it was so hard to accept my body, to start loving it, show it, be careful with it. Moreover, when I started be more active in the church, started be “more” catholick, if we can say like this, it was even more difficult to “take” my body and take care about it. I heard from my friends, from some priests and religious that body is not important, only beauty inside, only my heart and soul must be beautiful, because “God does not see as humans see. Humans look at outward appearances, but the Lord looks into the heart.” (1 Samuel 16:7). So? How is it with the body and outside beauty of human beings in the Bible and not only?

In the Bible GOD LOVES AND WANT YOU WHOLE – BODY AND SOUL!

Currently, it is very important for our psyche, emotional and mental development to be in a psycho-physical-spiritual harmony. It is necessary to take care of your mental and spiritual development. But also, which may be difficult for some, physical! It takes dedication, it takes time, it takes discipline and maturity. This is what God has entrusted to us – the talents to use – our body, our beauty, our soul. We have to start to love our body and cherish it! In the Bible you will find many confirmations of these words. Because only when we will admit it, that our bodies are equally important that our soul – we could start to live a better, fuller life. Like our Lord, Jesus, we will be able to give ourselves for our friends, people which we love!

This is the main meaning of this deliberation. To understand that in our world, our body has the same value as our souls. It is an integral part of our humanity and likeness to God. If you would like to learn and explore this part of the teaching of the church – I recommend the Theology of the body of John Paul II. Before presenting the main verses about beauty and body in the Bible, I will end this paragraph with this quote:

“Brace yourself! If we take in what the Holy Father is saying in his Theology of the Body, we will never view ourselves, view others, view the Church, the Sacraments, grace, God, heaven, marriage, the celibate vocation…we will never view the world the same way again.”

Christopher West

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