mleku on Nostr: #asknostr does anyone know of which variants of Christianity have some emphasis on ...
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does anyone know of which variants of Christianity have some emphasis on the angels?
there is a variant stream of Judaism called "Elohist" that contends that the main actors in the story are the host of angels, "elohim" literally means "the people of light" and is hard to not notice the correspondence to the irish stories of the "Tuatha de Danaan" or "Aes Dana" the people of the light
it's not so much that i think there is a conflict between the angels and God except in as far as the fallen angels, but more that the role of the angels, and the leader who gets called "Lord" in the whole of the bible - except when this refers to Jesus (which i think is interesting)
also, i remember years back some kind of criticism of the iconography of Jesus representing him as quite pale skinned, most of the famous catholic and protestant paintings depicting him put him as either pale white or at most tan, and if you follow the logic, that Jesus is descended from an angelic leader or "Lord" then there is a whole mess of questions i have about this because Genesis and other apocryphal books clearly imply or straight up state that angels were making babies with human women, implying that they are both: a) physical beings and b) genetically compatible with humans
it has only been a scant few thousand years since all these stories were written but you can cite multiple cases even in short time windows of the total destruction, or near total destruction, of all references to old stories in text that have later been challenged by the discovery of other texts that survived the book burning
so, yeah, back to the central topic, I know Mormons have a fairly strong notion of humans and angels being connected and some others but what are the most well known denominations that are adacent to or low key say that angels and man are related and the history is all about this?
does anyone know of which variants of Christianity have some emphasis on the angels?
there is a variant stream of Judaism called "Elohist" that contends that the main actors in the story are the host of angels, "elohim" literally means "the people of light" and is hard to not notice the correspondence to the irish stories of the "Tuatha de Danaan" or "Aes Dana" the people of the light
it's not so much that i think there is a conflict between the angels and God except in as far as the fallen angels, but more that the role of the angels, and the leader who gets called "Lord" in the whole of the bible - except when this refers to Jesus (which i think is interesting)
also, i remember years back some kind of criticism of the iconography of Jesus representing him as quite pale skinned, most of the famous catholic and protestant paintings depicting him put him as either pale white or at most tan, and if you follow the logic, that Jesus is descended from an angelic leader or "Lord" then there is a whole mess of questions i have about this because Genesis and other apocryphal books clearly imply or straight up state that angels were making babies with human women, implying that they are both: a) physical beings and b) genetically compatible with humans
it has only been a scant few thousand years since all these stories were written but you can cite multiple cases even in short time windows of the total destruction, or near total destruction, of all references to old stories in text that have later been challenged by the discovery of other texts that survived the book burning
so, yeah, back to the central topic, I know Mormons have a fairly strong notion of humans and angels being connected and some others but what are the most well known denominations that are adacent to or low key say that angels and man are related and the history is all about this?