Bad Angels

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a b Christoph Horn Augustinus, De civitate dei Oldenbourg Verlag 2010 ISBN 978-3-05-005040-9 p. 158

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Masood Ali Khan, Shaikh Azhar Iqbal Encyclopaedia of Islam: Religious doctrine of Islam Commonwealth, 2005 ISBN 978-81-311-0052-3 p. 153 But on the other hand, there’s some even weirder stuff that the Bible DOES say about angels and demons that we never hear in Sunday school. For example, you’ve heard of cherubim and seraphim—but what about that goat demon in Leviticus 17:7?Syria in Crusader Times: Conflict and Co-Existence.(2020).Vereinigtes Königreich:Edinburgh University Press. The singular form of seraphim is “seraph.” (Hebrew uses “-im” similarly to how we add “-s” to words to make them plural.) The Bible mentions seraphim only twice, both in Isaiah’s grand vision of the Lord in the temple in Isaiah chapter 6. We can only discern a few things about the seraphim from this passage: Angels, according to religious tradition, were created by God long before men. Judaism considers them children of God and members of the divine council. They are beings of light who serve God and do what he commands them. Their tasks are, mainly, to introduce the soul to newborn children, to collect it from the deceased at the time of death and to serve as a messengers between divinity and humanity . This aspect will be perfectly included in the meaning of the names of angels and archangels. Paul van Geest, Marcel Poorthuis, Els Rose Sanctifying Texts, Transforming Rituals: Encounters in Liturgical Studies Brill 2017 ISBN 978-90-04-34708-3 p. 83 The story of the angels that gather the main religions explains that they lived in Heaven in harmony and serving God when one of them, Lucifer, dominated by pride, wanted to be like God . At the command of a host of rebellious angels who followed him they tried to take their place, but their companions who had remained faithful overcame them under the command of the archangel Michael.

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In the Divine Comedy (1308–1320) by Dante Alighieri, fallen angels guard the City of Dis surrounding the lower circles of hell. They mark a transition: While in previous circles, the sinners are condemned for sins they just could not resist, later on, the circles of hell are filled with sinners who deliberately rebel against God, such as fallen angels or Christian heretics. [133] The spiritual beings belonging to the angelic world are divided into angels and fallen angels, here are a few names of those who consider themselves both angels and demons. Some of the names of fallen angels are:The angels who followed Lucifer were cut off their wings, were expelled from heaven and fell into the abyss : what we know as hell. There Lucifer became Satan and represents evil in all its meanings. This is the main myth that the Catholic religion exposes us as the difference between the forces of good and evil. For now, we prefer to focus on good, and share with you a selection of Names of Angels and Archangels. Then! 1. Names of Male Angels Hussein Abdul-Raof Theological Approaches to Qur'anic Exegesis: A Practical Comparative-Contrastive Analysis Routledge 2012 ISBN 978-1-136-45991-7 p. 155 Satan: It turns out that, for Judaism, Lucifer and Satan are two different entities. Satan means "adversary" in Hebrew. Of course, the only place in the Protestant canon that anyone is referred to as an archangel is in Jude 9, when Jude refers to Michael. It’s possible that Jude (who references 1 Enoch later in his very brief epistle) would have considered Gabriel an archangel, since it’s possible that Jude pulled Michael’s title from a less-than-canonical source.

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Although, as we mentioned earlier, angels are androgynous beings (that is, they do not have male or female sex), their names are usually associated by cultures as feminine or masculine. Among the names of female angels we find some like: One of the easiest ways for our angels to communicate with us is through our dreams. We are usually more open to the messages from spirit when the human ego is asleep. Arch-” means “chief,” and the book of Daniel calls Michael a “chief prince” (Dan 10:13; 12:1). So it’s possible that archangels are a rank up from the next kind of angelic being: princes. 5. Princes According to The Brendan Voyage, during the Medieval Age, Brendan meets a group of angels referred to as "wandering spirits". On holy days, they were embodied as white birds, symbols usually used for purity and the holy spirit. In later versions, such as the 15th Century Dutch and German variant, the fallen angels are much more depicted as akin to grotesque demons. Although they would not have supported Lucifer in his evil schemes, they would have been passive and not fighting for good, thus turned into animal-like creatures cast out of heaven.Alberdina Houtman, Tamar Kadari, Marcel Poorthuis, Vered Tohar Religious Stories in Transformation: Conflict, Revision and Reception Brill 2016 ISBN 978-90-04-33481-6 p. 70 Ra'anan S. Boustan, Annette Yoshiko Reed Heavenly Realms and Earthly Realities in Late Antique Religions Cambridge University Press 2004 ISBN 978-1-139-45398-1 p. 60

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Like the seraphim, the living creatures have six wings each and never cease to proclaim God’s holiness.Cherubim play a part in judgment. In Ezekiel 10, a cherub hands a burning coal to another character in Ezekiel’s vision who has just slaughtered the disobedient residents of Jerusalem. Seraphim” is usually defined as “burning ones.” The few other times the Hebrew root of the word ( serap) shows up, it’s in reference to the “fiery serpents” that God sent to judge the children of Israel in the wilderness (Nu 21:6, Dt 8:15) or “flying serpents” that Isaiah talks about in two of his oracles (Is 14:29; 30:6). 3. Cherubim