Artists depict cherubs as little girls with wings, when that's not how they're described at all. They even depict Jesus as a handsome, blue-eyed Westerner, when this was how He was described in prophecy about 7 centuries before He was born to "pitch His tent with us," so to speak:
Isaiah 53:2-6
"For He shall grow up before Him as a tender plant, and as a root out of a dry ground: He hath no form nor comeliness; and when we shall see Him, there is no beauty that we should desire him. He is despised and rejected of men; a man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief: and we hid as it were our faces from Him; He was despised, and we esteemed Him not. Surely He hath borne our griefs, and carried our sorrows: yet we did esteem Him stricken, smitten of God, and afflicted. But He was wounded for our transgressions, He was bruised for our iniquities: the chastisement of our peace was upon Him; and with His stripes we are healed. All we like sheep have gone astray; we have turned every one to his own way; and the LORD hath laid on Him the iniquity of us all."
The Lord Jesus does not look like a handsome, blue-eyed Westerner. Making an inference of something out of an artist's depiction of that something does not make for sound epistemology. Also, believing in the Creator makes more sense than believing in spontaneous generation of the universe out of nothing in the "big bang."
Howdy @Naomi,
I really don't know. On one hand, never being born would eliminate the origin of belly button. On the other hand, God made them as the blueprint for the rest of humanity, He may have included navels so as to be perfect originals. I'll have to ask when next I see them.
Well, among other things, navel gazing, belly dancing....