I have a question about the Abrahamic traditions.
What is the purpose of angels? Why does the Deity need to hide behind lesser spirits, or require their assistance as messengers? Why do they exist?
What are they, even? What are they made out of? Is this ever explained in any theological commentaries from Christian, Jewish, or Islamic sources?
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messengers, the glory of god is too great for mortal beings and we would die if we heard his voice. he speaks through his emissaries to avoid hurting us
In Islam at least, Angels (like humans) were created to worship God. The difference is that they don't have free will or feel temptation, and spend their existences without complaint just worshiping God. God created some things to worship him, this is a pretty basic premise of much of abrahamic tradition, and is just a characteristic of the abrahamic God
Desu. There were plenty of people in the Bible who talked directly to God.
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very few and people blessed to be able to do so, but most of those people were given unnatural lives or driven mad by the voice of God
>he speaks through his emissaries to avoid hurting us
But he is perfectly happy to hurt those who exist beyond the century or so he has designated them to live physically, for either eternity or for a long time depending on how much money you donate?
>Judaism and Islam
>abrahamic
When will this meme end
>God made an entire race of beings so he could talk to people he didn't feel like blessing without killing them.
Is Christianity just a fanfic at this point?
That century or so is where god decides if you are worthy or not.
I like the image that the afterlife is pretty similar to an extremely burocratic customs office or something.
Yes OP, kings don't just go around doing errands do they?
Assuming that god (or hell, a human in god's position) would act rationally and honestly is naive as fuck desu
Don't do that shit to me man, the idea that gods are real and are just evil gibbering abominations is legit terrifying.
Not evil.
Merely human. We were, after all, created to his/their image.
Which human? There's a lot of different kinds.
Individually yes, but we all share common traits.
For example, none of us is actually evil or good.
None of us is good or evil, eh? Saturday morning cartoons have some explaining to do, then.
Those were jewish propaganda.
They're robots that automate away all the boring stuff like talking to meat-bags.
Read Chapters 50-64
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Which is why Satan and half the angels rebelled against god.
>half
1/3. Only 1/3 rebelled.
>What is the purpose of angels?
Angels are sentient spiritual life. That's like asking what the point of humanity is.
>Δόξας (doxas) almost certainly refers to angelic beings rather than mere human authorities, though it is difficult to tell whether good or bad angels are in view. Verse 11 seems to suggest that wicked angels is what the author intends.
yet even angels, although they are stronger and more powerful, do not heap abuse on such beings when bringing judgment on them from the Lord. (2 Peter 2:11)
>The shaytan jinn are akin to demons in Christian tradition, but the jinn are not fallen angels and the Quran draws a clear distinction between the two creations. An esception is Iblis, the islamic devil. While the Quran calls in Sūrat al-Kahf (The Cave), Ayah 50,[4] Iblis one of the jinn, but mentioned him among the angels, some scholars and especially mystics[5] [6]
Then, when We decreed (Solomon's) death, nothing showed them his death except a little worm of the earth, which kept (slowly) gnawing away at his staff: so when he fell down, the jinn saw plainly that if they had known the unseen, they would not have tarried in the humiliating penalty (of their task). (Qurʾan 34:14)