(May 27, 2016 at 11:01 am)Wyrd of Gawd Wrote:(May 26, 2016 at 4:04 pm)ChadWooters Wrote: I was thinking more about my comments about the major religions. A lot of Evangelicals will tell you that they worship completely different gods. I'm saying not so fast. But I do agree Satan does actively seek to deceive by posing as the true God. Angels in the OT always look like normal people, whereas the 'angel' that appeared to Mohammed presented itself in a 'divine' form.
What about those weird angels that have two, four, or six wings?
There is some debate about whether these are a specific order of angelic beings or symbolic aspects of the Godhead. I would just say that if they are indeed angels they are not of the type that interact directly with humans. One possible exception to my statement is the angels who appeared to the shepherds in Luke. However the text did not refer to those angels as illuminated beings, but rather as having the glory of the Lord around them. That's a little ambiguous, but I think prior references to the appearance of angels should guide interpretation.
