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Drawing Angels?

Xleniz

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Hi guys, I was going to draw a girl, then, 2 days later I was thinking "Ops that face, eyes and skin colour looks just like me", so I was drawing a self potrait.

Then I put on a white dress, because Im too lazy to draw colors.

Now, I did some kind of aura around him, and he looks like some angel or something. Question: Can I draw something heavenly [ Im not sure ] but I read somewhere in Bible it says me not to write angels and such. (p_p)_
 
Hi Xleniz and welcome to CFnet. May your time here be a blessing to you. Here is a study I put together on angels that might help you understand who and what they are.

Angels are essentially “ministering spirits,” (Hebrews 1:14) and do not have physical bodies like humans. Jesus declared that “a spirit hath not flesh and bones, as ye see me have” (Luke 24:37-39).


The Bible classifies some angels as “elect” (1 Timothy 5:21) or “holy” (Matthew 25:31; Mark 8:38). Angels were also organized in ranks or orders with some having wings, but not all had wings (Isaiah6:1-3; 1Thessalonians 4:16). All angels were created to be holy, enjoying the presence of God (Matthew 18:10) and the beauty of heaven (Mark 13:32).


Other angels oppose God under the leadership of Satan (Isaiah 14:12-20) whom even Satan is a created spirit of God that is why God could never destroy him because a spirit can not die. (Matthew 25:41; 2 Peter 2:4; Jude 6; Ephesians 6:12). We often call these types of angels demons for which an everlasting fire is prepared by God for these angels, (Matthew 25:41).


Angels have no gender (Matthew 22:30) and are innumerable (Hebrews 12:22). They are incarnate in human form at times (Genesis 18:2-8) for the purpose of ministry. Angels also express emotions (Luke 15:10), are wise (2 Samuel 14:20) and powerful (Psalms 103:20).


The unnamed angels who appear most often in Scripture carry out a variety of tasks—all designed to serve God…


Worship and praise - This is the main activity portrayed in heaven (Isaiah 6:1-3; Revelation 4-5).


Revealing - They serve as messengers to communicate God's will to men. They helped reveal the law to Moses (Acts 7:52-53), and served as the carriers of much of the material in Daniel, and Revelation.


Guiding - Angels gave instructions to Joseph about the birth of Jesus (Matthew 1-2), to the women at the tomb, to Philip (Acts 8:26), and to Cornelius (Acts 10:1-8).


Providing - God has used angels to provide physical needs such as food for Hagar (Genesis 21:17-20), Elijah (1 Kings 19:6), and Christ after His temptation (Matthew 4:11).


Protecting - Keeping God's people out of physical danger, as in the cases of Daniel and the lions, and his three friends in the fiery furnace (Daniel 3 and 6).


Delivering - Getting God's people out of danger once they're in it. Angels released the apostles from prison in Acts 5, and repeated the process for Peter in Acts 12.


Strengthening and encouraging - Angels strengthened Jesus after His temptation (Matt 4:11), encouraged the apostles to keep preaching after releasing them from prison (Acts 5:19-20), and told Paul that everyone on his ship would survive the impending shipwreck (Acts 27:23-25).


Answering prayer - God often uses angels as His means of answering the prayers of His people (Daniel 9:20-24; 10:10-12; Acts 12:1-17).


Caring for believers at the moment of death - In the story of Lazarus and the rich man, we read that angels carried the spirit of Lazarus to “Abraham's bosom” when he died (Luke 16:22).


You never know when and where and angel of God will show up and as Hebrews 13:2 says be careful for you never know when you are entertaining angels unaware.
 
Thanks for reply I will read carefully, but:
Exodus 20:4
"New International Version
"You shall not make for yourself an image in the form of anything in heaven above or on the earth beneath or in the waters below."

(meaning?)

[offtopic, an addition to message: Thank you]

[Edited by mod, Deborah13]
 
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Thanks for reply I will read carefully, but:
Exodus 20:4
"New International Version
"You shall not make for yourself an image in the form of anything in heaven above or on the earth beneath or in the waters below."

(meaning?)

[offtopic, an addition to message: Thank you]

[Edited by mod, Deborah13]

Creating art is not a problem but if one worships that art in anyway, that is idolatry. The underlining problem is that one worships what the art represents to them.
Do you worship angels, what do they mean to you? That is the question to ask oneself, I think.
 
Exo 20:4-5 "You shall not make for yourself a carved image, or any likeness of anything that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth. (5) You shall not bow down to them or serve them, for I the LORD your God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children to the third and the fourth generation of those who hate me,

Yahweh gave instructions for the artwork in the Tabernacle and on the Ark of the Covenant so the artwork itself isn't bad.

Exo 25:18-20 And you shall make two cherubim of gold; of hammered work shall you make them, on the two ends of the mercy seat. (19) Make one cherub on the one end, and one cherub on the other end. Of one piece with the mercy seat shall you make the cherubim on its two ends. (20) The cherubim shall spread out their wings above, overshadowing the mercy seat with their wings, their faces one to another; toward the mercy seat shall the faces of the cherubim be.
 
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