How can anyone say the human body is a thing of beauty? To say that God would create something so filthy and disgusting contradicts the idea of Divine perfection. This is precisely the problem with modern culture.
So, tell me why I’m wrong!
In Genesis, it is said that after God created something, ‘God saw that it was good’ (In Hebrew ‘
Vayar Elohim ki-tov’) yet after man was created, the ‘God saw all that he had made, and behold, it was
very good’: ‘
Vayar Elohim et-kol-asher asah vehineh-tov me’od.’
The phrase ‘
tov me’od’ could also mean ‘very pleasant’, ‘very beautiful’ or ‘very fine’.
Technically, God could not create something He would not find ‘very good’ (Yes, He did destroy a large number of human beings in the Deluge, so the Bible tells us, but even so He allowed humanity to survive through Noah and his family and spread again over the Earth); otherwise, why would He waste His time by creating something He would not like anyway?
Plus, it also says that in the same chapter that:
Then God said: “Let us make man in our image, after our likeness. Let him have dominion over the fish of the sea, the birds of the air, and the cattle, and over all the wild animals and all the creatures that crawl on the ground.”
God created man in his image; in the divine image He created him; male and female He created them.
“Vayomer Elohim: “Na’aseh adam betsalmenu kidemutenu veyirdu bidegat hayam uve’of hashamayim uvabehemah uvechol-ha’arets uvechol-haremes haromes al-ha’arets.”
Vayivra Elohim et-ha’adam betsalmo betselem Elohim bara oto zachar unekevah bara otam.”
The words ‘tselem’ (inflected as
betselem,
betsalmo and
betsalmenu above) in this context means ‘form’, ‘image’ or ‘resemblance’ while ‘demut’ (
kidemutenu in the text above), which comes from the word ‘damah’ (which means ‘to compare’, ‘to resemble’ or ‘liken’) and means ‘fashion’, ‘likeness’ or ‘resemblance’.