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Angels are Pure Spirits |
ANGELS ARE PURE SPIRITS
We know very little about the nature of the angels except that they are pure spirits. They always appear unexpectedly and disappear just as unexpectedly without telling us anything about their existence because as with many things in the realm of spiritually and God, our capacity to understand these profound spiritual matters in limited.
An angel is a pure spirit created by God and exists as an individual person with an individual mind and a free will, just like man. But unlike man, an angel has no body, but an angel can take on the form of a human in order that we can identify with them when they appear to us.
An angel, being a pure spirit, is superior to man and used by God for many important duties on earth, such as the protector and guardian of man, while man is striving towards attaining a good moral life.
A pure spirit is not confined to a particular space on earth or in the cosmos, for a spirit has no mass or matter. An angel is not confined by time on earth like man is or to a time in history like man is, for time is only a measure devised by man on earth.
God we know is eternal and angels as far as we know are eternal, man can, of course, be eternal also, if he follows the laws of God and the directions of His angels.
Angels have knowledge which is far superior to man but unlike man, they are incorruptible. The glory of Almighty God is the reason for the existence of angels who carry out His will. We also learn from the angels themselves that they, in the fullness of their being, are as distinct from one another, as one man is from another.
When God made the Angels, he made each with a will that was supremely free. We know that the price of heaven is love of God. It is by making an act of love for God that a spirit, whether an angel or a human soul, qualifies itself for Heaven. Love of God must be proved in the only way in which love for God can be proved - by an act of free will, which we demonstrate by an "act of obedience" or an act of loyalty to God
This is how the angels qualify for everlasting union with God, and this is how man can enter into everlasting union with God which on earth we call "Heaven".
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