Prior to The Fourth Lateran Council of 1215 AD, some in the church believed angels had corporeal nature suited to the heavenly realm, that they were not immaterial spirits.
Yeah and people believed in Gnosticism well before then, too. Were the gnostics right?
Define "corperal".
Scripture depicts them eating and drinking with Abraham, pulling Lot into the house and shuting the door, wrestling with Jacob who held the angel fast and would not release Him, sitting under a tree with Gideon, waking Peter up and helping him rise to his feet. Angels can be unwittingly entertained by humans who believe they are helping strangers.
That just proves they can take a physical FORM if they want to, if God allows them to. Next youll be telling me that constuction workers can only ever work in construction, that they can't, say, become firefighters or basket weavers.
Hebrews 1:14 "ministering spirits" does not contradict this, metaphorically angels function as "ministering spirits", its not a statement about their essence.
Why not? People have had dreams of Angels. Why are dreams needed, if these angels are supposedly physical? Right, nobody, NOBODY has touched a "physical angel". At the very most, it would be an angel THAT BECAME PHYSICAL.
God wouldn't have to "make them "spirits"
The verse says "winds". The NIV is inaccurate there.
if they already were, neither is He making them literal fire (Hebrews 1:7). This is metaphorical language describing them as swift and powerful, not defining their essence.
That probably describes their form. Even if not their essence or nature.
The theory they "materialize" physical forms to interact with humans isn't taught in scripture and in fact contradicts God alone kills and makes alive (Deut. 32:39) and that He alone has creative power (Neh. 9:6).
That's ridiculous. Theyre already "alive". Plus, they dont need to materialize a body themselves, mabye God does it
For them. Or mabye they just become physical, no need for a "creation" of a "form".
Never does scripture depict angels or men changing their essence as they cross dimensions into the other realm.
And there is no evidence those angels were strictly physical.
Jacob saw angels climb down a ladder, Elijah crossed over in a chariot through a whirlwind, Moses and Elijah appeared on the Mount of Transfiguration when the Kingdom was present in power, John went through a door:
Ok..?
Christ said resurrected believers would be "equal to the angels" and as they will rise physically from the dead in "supernatural bodies" it follows angels also have corporeal nature that is "equal" to them.
Equal in what sense? There is nothing to indicate "equal" referring to physicality.
How do you know that "equal" isnt referring to a supernatural nature? We have souls you know.
Moreover, when Paul was discussing the various types of heaven bodies that exist, they were all physical "soma", not spirit "pneuma". The resurrection body is a body infused with spirit, not immaterial spirit. It is the same "physical body infused with spirit" that Christ has:
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Spirits don't get resurrected, physical bodies do.
Where do you see angels being "resurrected"??
For this reason Christians should not be surprised when Satan and his fallen angels appear in physically in a fleet of UFO ships. They use advanced technology to go from place to place. We see that in Ezekeil chapter 1, and scripture expressly declares the stars fought Sisera from heaven:
Evil forces can enter or exit the physical realm.
Ive never heard of "stars fighting Sisera".
Regardless how one interprets the symbolism, the angel of the LORD is depicted as seated in a craft that moves."
modern intrptation. how would the ancient people have seen it?
This is why UFOs do NOT prove ancient alien theory at all. Angels use advanced technology.
Or mabye they are simply beings in a realm higher than ours, and are much more powerful and capable.
When Satan and his angels appear on earth after Michael and his angels cast they out of heaven, it’s a strong delusion they are extraterrestrial beings, a Big Lie deception of epic proportions.
And i dont see how peddling the unorthodox idea that Angels and fallen ones are somehow physical is any better of a belief. All it does is sow division and nudge believers into stuff like Gnosticism.
