Think about this Sam, it's really interesting. In the artistic tradition, for a very long time, the rose has been considered beautiful. There are lots of beautiful flowers, but even now, the common person places the rose in a special place--this is a testimony to that tradition. Anyways, a rose isn't inately beautiful, it's given beauty. Our pressuppositions and imagination, built together by our complicated mind relationship to the web of relationships, formulate ideas about beauty. Consequently, forms are recieved as either matching up or failing. We make things beautiful and give meaning to what's actually a grotesque shape of matter. This is true in many other shades--I don't want to say everything just because it's too big of a statement.

Isn't it funny how we all disagree about God? On top of this, we are always changing what we think about God. Jesus is someone different to everyone. Our significance of our God is based on our ideas about him. He means something different to all of us. Whether or not God is inatley meaningful, our ideas about God aren't inate. Just like the rose we create God and whatever matrix his meaning has in our lives is created and always changing. I think this is really interesting.