Does Beauty Have A Function

 How do we know it when we see it?

I think maybe that recognition is innate. 

But it's also cultural.  So how subjective is it?  

I reread some Bible verses on the subject of personal beauty, and as we all know they stress inward virtue and Godly behavior.

But I am thinking about the natural world. It is both terrible in places and full of beauty in others. 

My first thought when I wrote this little quiz was "is beauty holy in some way?"

I understand holy to mean set aside for God. 

Did God create beauty and our ability to sense it to please Himself and us?  Is it a point of communion?

Just some things I think about.

What do you think?