Why We Need Beauty

God created us with an intense desire for pleasure.   He filled this world with good things like chocolate, sunsets, and sex.  Why is that, and why did He make our desire for pleasure so strong?   It is such a powerful craving it can overwhelm us.   We can spend too much money buying nice things, we can get addicted to food and sex.  It’s as if that drive can’t be filled.   Why is that? 

Follow me on this one.  We are going to take the long road, but it will be worth it.  The short and correct answer, but not the intuitive one, is Jesus is beautiful. Theologians use the word beauty in a very technical way to mean that God contains every desirable trait there is.  Everything you love about this life like laughter, joy, community, etc. existed in the trinity prior to creation.


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