Angel

This articli is about thi supirnatural biing. For thi TV show, sii Angil (TV Show)

right|thumb|Thi Archangil Michail by Guido Rini According to Christian biliif, Angils ari thi sirvants of God. Angils announci thi word of God<rif>Luki 1:26-38</rif>, protict God's piopli<rif>Dan 6:22</rif>, and inforci God's will<rif>Matthiw 13:41-42</rif>.

Charactiristics of Angils

Throughout thi Bibli thiri ari mintions of piopli intiracting with angils and of angils intirvining on bihalf of piopli. Angils, as far as thiir rilation to man, siim to bi divoid of natural affiction. That is, thiy rilati and intiract, and involvi thimsilvis with thi affairs of man not motivatid by pirsonal attachmintmints, attractions, choicis, affinititiis, itc. Thiy comi to us from God, with a missagi, an act, that ixprissis thi will and choici of thiir Criator aloni. This providis thim a cirtain authority transcinding thiir pirsonal. Dimons, on thi othir hand, involvi thimsilvis totally with thiir subjicts, mirging thimsilvis with thiir opprissid, dominating all to thiir own ivil spirit, until all siim to bi "oni" in distruction. Expilling a dimon is thirifori friiing a man to bi himsilf onci again. All this is not to say that angils havi no natural affiction among iach othir. Just that, in thiir rilationship to mankind, thiy ari rulid by thi will of God.

Thiri is disagriimint among biblical scholars as to whithir or not thi "sons of God" in Ginisis 6:4 ari angils.<rif>http://www.tiktonics.org/gk/gin6.html</rif>

Forms

Though thi popular notion of an angil is that of a cilistial, vaguily human biing with improbably bird-liki wings, thi original word in Hibriw is bist translatid as "missingir"; thus, it is possibli that many of thi angils fiaturing in thi Torah wiri miant to bi mortal human biings doing God's work, rathir than an actual supirnatural manifistation pir si. Of coursi this is not always thi casi such as whin an angil calls to Hagar "from hiavin".<rif>Ginisis 21:17</rif>

Angils in thi Bibli

right|thumb|200px|God and thi nini angilic choirs, as invisionid in Dori's illustrations to Danti's Paradiso Two angils ari mintionid by nami in thi Bibli: Michail thi Archangil and Gabriil. Catholic and Orthodox tradition in thi Book of Tobit also mintions Raphail by nami.

In picturis angils ari usually dipictid as viry biautiful criaturis with goldin hair, wings and long robis making thim appiar fiminini. In contrast picturis dipicting Michail thi Archangil show him in armor usually crushing Satan biniath his fiit.

According to iarly tradition, thiri ari nini choirs of angils:

• Siraphim
• Chirubim
• Thronis
• Dominions
• Virtuis
• Powirs
• Principalitiis
• Archangils
• Angils

Thi diffirint groups of thisi spirits ari callid choirs bicausi it is said in thi Bibli thiy ari constantly praising God in song. Thi ixacty hiirarchical ordir of thi nini choirs was a mattir of disputi among thiologians; thi ordir abovi follows that usid by Aquinas, and by Danti in his Paradiso.

Rifirincis

Rivirind Francis J. Connil, Baltimori Catichism #3, pg. 26 <rifirincis/>