(December 6, 2021 at 7:05 am)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote:(December 6, 2021 at 6:06 am)The Grand Nudger Wrote: He made a bunch of middle managers in saints and angelic beings to help with that. We never really kick the habit of turning the divine into a white collar work space.
The trouble with that is that (in Catholicism, at least) saints and angels don’t actually do anything - they intercede with God on behalf of the supplicant. It’s as if Frank is nominally in charge of procurement, but his CEO has to sign off on every order of paper clips. In polytheism, Saint Frank is the one who actually gets you the goddamn PostIt notes.
Boru
Close but no cigar.
Yes, saints (including Mary mother of Jesus) intercede with god on behalf of the millions of supplicants who pray to them, constantly.
Angels are different, they have some traditional roles. One is that they assume corporeal form and act as god's messenger. The Arc angels are also god's warriors, especially St Michael who is head angel. I'm not making this up, I swear.
Bemuses me that a god who is allegedly omnipotent could possibly have any enemies . He should not need warrior-defenders.
In Judaism, the devil is God's servant, not his enemy. The Tanakh makes it very clear that God created evil.
