Given your position on the embedding of spirit within the physical how much do you think our senses add to our knowledge of God through both the beauty of nature and the arts?
@Kdtym10, I am constantly amazed at the natural world and it complexity and how it can work together harmonious in unity. I have posted this quote before:
"Someone got up to talk about a group of plants that produced a certain group of chemicals in their leaves. Until then, the chemicals had been thought as a defining characteristic of that group of plants. However, it transpired that the chemicals were actually made by the fungi that Iived in the leaves of the plant. Our idea of the plant had to be redrawn. Another researcher interjected, suggesting that it may not be the fungi living in the leaf that produced these chemicals, but the bacteria living inside the fungus." (P18&19 Entangled Life by Merlin Sheldrake).
I see God's hand in this and also how our understanding can be there but not quite. How we have to redefine what we thought to even begin to unpick and understand.
Art, I feel is our response to the world we live in and can reflect shared understanding of God. I believe we are made in God's image and like Him we can be creative too.