How many angel figurines have you seen that are grown men, of strength? Fearsome? Actually Biblical? Looked online — the few available average is $80.
Why do you suppose this is?
Do angels have belly buttons?
They’re a-gender.
Billy Graham wrote a couple of good books on angels. I think they’re on Amazon.
Angel = purity
What I REALLY want to know is, how many can dance on the head of a pin!
Who cares...as long as they’re on my side.
The now-standard depictions of angels were chosen by men during the Renaissance. They were influenced by classical (Greek and Roman) styles of showing gods, goddesses, and heroes.
Angels are presented in masculine terms in the Bible. However, as incorporeal spirits, they are neither male nor female.
Jesus said that there is no marriage in Heaven, and I believe he gives a reason why.
Nephilim were born from angles having sex with human women, so it appears angels have sexual organs and it would stand to reason that if God gave them penis’s then there are women angels to use them on.
Sidenote: Nowhere in the Bible are angels shown to have wings.......in my thinking, they have no need for them.........
People look at you funny when you tell them there are no female angels............
Humans should not waste the energy of their faith worrying about such matters. G-d will reveal all such unknowns to each when G-d chooses, in this life or beyond it. Don’t be vexed by such matters.
They are messengers and servants of God. The most common reaction in the Bible on initially seeing them is fear. Apparently their is a host or army of them in heaven. Perhaps each of us has one or more looking out for us. I hope so. I need all the protection I can get.
Because Hallmark can’t make money on big burly man angel cards.
And because the angels are portrayed in a view of the artists of their times. They all liked little girls and boys.
“They are representative of wickedness and are not dealing with angels.”
It is always amazes me that when the Bible records something that doesn’t fit a chosen narrative, then all of a sudden a switch is made from literal to figurative and symbolic.
Why would God all of a sudden display wickedness by using female gender to get it across? There is no hint in the verse that suggests the female angels represent evil. They may be doing something evil; I haven’t studied the verse.
Babylon in the Bible may represent evil, but that is because there was a Babylon.
Angels with no gender?
This thread can be derailed... :)
Irrelevant question if you have read the Book of Mary (Nag Hammuradi). The end of the world ‘reaping’ will be done in two steps; the first will take the males. Christ will appear and convert the remaining females to a ‘male’ form for the second ‘reaping’.
No.
I always wondered how many could dance on the head of a pin. I suppose that if they were all female, a lot. If all little children, even more. If all male, not so many...just sayin’.
All Angels in/from heaven are characterized as being male. For us to portray any of them as female is unnecessary and could potentially bring scandal depending on the circumstances. Bad juju.