I believe in Angels as ministering spirits, but have never seen one, nor do I believe them
to be feminine looking, as spirits have no gender meant for reproduction. :- )
Watchers??!
Sometimes I find the most insight into a culture and into persons in general is how they express themselves in death. Where did we get the idea that angels are beautiful women who simply watch the dead? Why do we find these kinds of images in Christian cemeteries all over the world? Why do we think angels are associated with death at all?
Laurita Hayes
Now we’re talking.
I am seeing in eastern mythology, such as the Korean culture, for example, that angels and demons alike possess the realm of the dead. Traditional Koreans seem to believe in a Grim Reaper that comes to show you over the river Styx, and demons are those undying unfortunates that do not get to have love. But neither do those angels! Only humans get to do that love stuff, but they pay for it with mortality, etc. ad nauseum. They seem to have a ‘heaven’ and a ‘hell’, and the dead haunt the living, who worship them. And don’t forget their version of Jove, who oversees all this business and seems to be vaguely in charge of some rather loose ‘rules’ about it all, but the most important fixed rule seems to be FATE, or destiny, against which humans and their petty loves seem to rail in vain. There is no real choice against fate; choice is an illusion that one must be freed from. Just exactly where those fluffy little angels fit in, I am still trying to figure out….
This stuff is all over paganism, as well as pantheism.
Sure would like to see an expert in history and religion weigh in on this one! It is confusing.
John Turco, Jr
Blink in Dr.Who was an episode worth watching.
Remember that the dead are dead not angles. Christ is coming for his own so be ready.
After Christ death he did not come back as an angel. He came back as the first fruit of what we will be. We don’t actually know what we will be but we will not be angels.
Oh my. After watching the BBC’s ‘Doctor Who’ episode called ‘Blink’ (http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x1apsaq_doctor-who-blink-full_shortfilms), I can never look at statues of angels the same again!
I believe in Angels as ministering spirits, but have never seen one, nor do I believe them
to be feminine looking, as spirits have no gender meant for reproduction. :- )
Watchers??!
Sometimes I find the most insight into a culture and into persons in general is how they express themselves in death. Where did we get the idea that angels are beautiful women who simply watch the dead? Why do we find these kinds of images in Christian cemeteries all over the world? Why do we think angels are associated with death at all?
Now we’re talking.
I am seeing in eastern mythology, such as the Korean culture, for example, that angels and demons alike possess the realm of the dead. Traditional Koreans seem to believe in a Grim Reaper that comes to show you over the river Styx, and demons are those undying unfortunates that do not get to have love. But neither do those angels! Only humans get to do that love stuff, but they pay for it with mortality, etc. ad nauseum. They seem to have a ‘heaven’ and a ‘hell’, and the dead haunt the living, who worship them. And don’t forget their version of Jove, who oversees all this business and seems to be vaguely in charge of some rather loose ‘rules’ about it all, but the most important fixed rule seems to be FATE, or destiny, against which humans and their petty loves seem to rail in vain. There is no real choice against fate; choice is an illusion that one must be freed from. Just exactly where those fluffy little angels fit in, I am still trying to figure out….
This stuff is all over paganism, as well as pantheism.
Sure would like to see an expert in history and religion weigh in on this one! It is confusing.
Blink in Dr.Who was an episode worth watching.
Remember that the dead are dead not angles. Christ is coming for his own so be ready.
After Christ death he did not come back as an angel. He came back as the first fruit of what we will be. We don’t actually know what we will be but we will not be angels.