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Angels

TheCatWoman

Does anyone believe in angels?

What do you believe them to be?

What about nefilim, the half human half angel hybrids that the Great Flood from the bible was supposed to have wiped out?

I find the whole subject fascinating, quite a few cultures have angels in thier religious beliefs, some of them not from an Abrahamic tradition. 

As someone said on another thread, do angels have the equipment to procreate?

Lucifer who was said to have been cast out of heaven by god along with his followers and went to hell and became the devil and demons etc, did hell already exist? Was it vacant when Lucifer took up residence there? A Lucifer figure appears in many religions and myths to, whats-his-face being punnished for giving humans fire and the other one who pushes a rock up a hill everyday only for it to roll back down every night and the one who has his liver pecked out by and eagle on a daily basis, why do we need these transgressive figures who appear to want to aid human development only to be punished by god who seemingly dosen't want us to develope?

There are also lots of myths about Watchers, Grigori and others who are the decendents of the Nephilim and keep watch ove rthe earth and certain individials and maybe bloodlines?

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  • No, I don't believe in them but I find stories about them interesting. I enjoyed the TV series Lucifer.

  • in reply to Lotus

    I'm interested in them from an historical perspective, angels have changed a lot over the centuries, the Victorians made them all dressed in white and of course blond haired, but many early representations show them as hainv multicoloured wings.

    I'm also interested in the different types of angels, churubin, why are they alsways depicted as chubby baby angels, seraphim etc what do they do?

  • in reply to TheCatWoman
    TheCatWoman said:
    angels have changed a lot over the centuries

    Its odd that almost all the saints, angels and other historical figures are prodominantly portrayed in religious iconography as white.

    Jesus and the people around him were all middle eastern and quite a few historical saints were African but stil end up as white in iconography.

    Even God and angels are almost always white. Odd that.

  • in reply to Iain

    Are you meaning angels were white skinned? I see other posts are interpreting yours as meaning that. Your post made me think of white stone statues outside churches.

    Yes, many images of Jesus showed him with white skin, blue eyes and blonde hair. Nowadays thank goodness, we have more images of a black Jesus, Joseph and Mary. 

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  • in reply to Iain

    Are you meaning angels were white skinned? I see other posts are interpreting yours as meaning that. Your post made me think of white stone statues outside churches.

    Yes, many images of Jesus showed him with white skin, blue eyes and blonde hair. Nowadays thank goodness, we have more images of a black Jesus, Joseph and Mary. 

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