What's the deal with christian angels? the version of bible I read had pretty much no mention of any of them...

>sure but what's their point? what do they do? what are they for?

What's the "point" of any of it? It's just part of the mythology.

Beings of higher authority tell beings of lower authority what to do. This is the essence of faith.

Checked.

Nothing in the bible is mythology; you must have wandered in from the Greek section.

Catholics*

Plenty of sects are less retarded than those blatant heretics.

Interlocking wheels with ALL THE EYES, sapient balls of flame with human heads attached, six-winged humanoids that'd make an X-man Jealous, a chimera...

The last one is a lot less rad than expected, desu. He's not an angel tho.

Everything in the Bible is mythology.

They're all over the place.

They're just not described how you would expect at all.

Also the image of them as normal humans with wings is based on the Greek cultur

The Kabbalahist explanation is that direct experience God is dangerous for people on a lower spiritual level. People at lower spiritual levels need angels at an intermediary and there are multiple ranks of angels for the multiple ranks of spiritual level. Funny enough this pretty much mirrors the Gnostic on how contact with the divine is regulated.

It's also for instances of people who are on exalted spiritual levels, but aren't in the right frame of mind to deal with a divine visitation at that moment. Probably the best example I can think of offhand is the angel telling Abraham not to sacrifice Isaac.

Their's three teirs of angels each containing three ranks
The highest rank contains seraphins cherubs and something
second rank no idea
Third rank contains something archangel and angels
The seraphs are in the council of god
Cherubs defend stuff?
Angels are messengers

nvm found it
also it's called heirarchies
Seraphim, Cherubim, and Thrones;
Dominations, Virtues, and Powers;
Principalities, Archangels, and Angels.

God's supposed to be omnipotent though. couldn't he just make it not dangerous. wouldn't that be a better solution

Aliens. I know it became a meme but it would explain a lots of shit. Like why do humans sacrifice to the gods? The terraformers come to take samples to see if their genetical engineering worked out.
Wasnt Enoch taken to heaven to write 16 books?
Could someone quote that passage?

Damn it, never thought of it like that, but maybe some rule set by God.

DMT

>The terraformers come to take samples to see if their genetical engineering worked out.
Why would terraformers be incapable of doing that without asking for sacrifices. In fact, why would they not be able to take samples without being noticed or having to kill a whole person/animal for just one sample?
Makes no sense

Maybe they were able to but chose not to because they like sacrifices? Or maybe the sacrifices produce some kind of energy that we aren't able to measure that they harnessed. I mean if we're really considering the possibility of extraterrestrial influence it seems silly to assume that we'd be able to understand and/or predict the motivations for their behavior.

>because they like sacrifices?
why would they like sacrifices?
>Or maybe the sacrifices produce some kind of energy that we aren't able to measure that they harnessed.
I think at this point we would be advanced enough to have found out if such energy existed. Besides if they needed us for energy, they would harvest us on their planet. I am ready to guess interstellar travel burns lots of energy too, so it would be highly inefficient.
> mean if we're really considering the possibility of extraterrestrial influence it seems silly to assume that we'd be able to understand and/or predict the motivations for their behavior.
Why so? Being more advanded than us does not mean their brains are not governed by chemicals, work on a set of pattens and are therefore not predictable to us

Is the father mentioned in the bible?
Is the son mentioned in the bible?
Is the holy spirit mentioned in the bible?

>why would they like sacrifices?

Not that user, but I could see it as not them wanting sacrifices, but us doing them as kind of a cargo cult type situation.

>Being more advanded than us does not mean their brains are not governed by chemicals, work on a set of pattens and are therefore not predictable to us

I don't think my cat understands even 5% of what I do even though our brains use all the same mechanisms to function.

Because their alien God likes sacrifices? Because they're sadistic aliens? It could literally be any reason...

Also their brains would probably function in a way that is "alien" from our own.

>it is my understanding that god is reachable more or less through ones own mind

When fulfilling the role of messengers, the angel typically takes on the form of a human. It's to help make sure the message is fully received and accepted by the human.

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>father is GoD

>son is Jesus Christ

Huh, I never knew the bible didn't mention God or Jesus at all user. I wonder where everyone got that idea from??

Have you ever read the Dune saga? Perhaps it's something akin to "missionaria protectiva", or as explained in the books, the implanting of myth, legend and prophecy to be exploited by those in the know to survive on a potentially hostile planet. Perhaps the sacrifices were a means to cement the implantation? Or to perhaps to help an vip hiding out here, (an "alien" world to them), but using the sacrifices to feed them. Iirc were they not told to sacrifice the best if their fields and flocks? A cast away alien would not know what is safe to eat on some back water planet.

>but it does mention that angels watch over each child
I guess the shit angels look over all the Africans then.