1. Galadriel says:

    I didn’t even know about those two men until I read a Gilbert Morris book–can’t remember the title, but it was in his Shilioh series about the linage of Christ. And when I was little, I used to love reading about the Tabernacle. No clue why. Just about all those materials, I guess…

  2. Martin LaBar says:

    Thanks! I just posted about Christians and reading fiction with magical, or pagan, elements, referring to your parts 2 and 3. See here, if interested.

    • Thanks for the encouragement and further thoughts, Martin! I’m heading over there to read it now — after fixing the link, by the way, to display better. (With the new comment-editor one can link other sources faster, though you can also click the little HTML button, second from right, above the comment-composition field to do direct editing of the source code.)

  3. I’ve thought about the interaction between God and the two tabernacle designers, too, Stephen. It’s one of the reasons I don’t think that art is without function as so many believe (art for art’s sake). It’s also why I don’t believe “anything goes” when it comes to art. Anything goes within the parameters God sets.

    All good thoughts. Thanks for this Biblical look at art. (BTW, is there anything you can do about the extra space that hitting “return” generates?)

    Becky

  4. Kerani says:

    >>>It’s one of the reasons I don’t think that art is without function as so many believe (art for art’s sake).
    For me, this goes right back to sunsets.  If God does art simply because beauty pleases, should we not?
    (Note: not trying to draw a human – God equivalency here, just to point out that God loves playing with colors, and clay, and genes, for seemingly no reason other than to make beautiful things.)

  5. God loves playing with colors, and clay, and genes, for seemingly no reason other than to make beautiful things.

    😀 I suggest His reason is the same as we’re proving by virtue of even talking about it: that He wants to make Himself look great to us. As the most important Being in the universe, and the most loving, it only makes sense that giving Himself to us is the most loving thing He could ever do. Methinks the Psalms confirm this purpose of natural beauty as well.

     

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