• Starting today August 7th, 2024, in order to post in the Married Couples, Courting Couples, or Singles forums, you will not be allowed to post if you have your Marital status designated as private. Announcements will be made in the respective forums as well but please note that if yours is currently listed as Private, you will need to submit a ticket in the Support Area to have yours changed.

  • CF has always been a site that welcomes people from different backgrounds and beliefs to participate in discussion and even debate. That is the nature of its ministry. In view of recent events emotions are running very high. We need to remind people of some basic principles in debating on this site. We need to be civil when we express differences in opinion. No personal attacks. Avoid you, your statements. Don't characterize an entire political party with comparisons to Fascism or Communism or other extreme movements that committed atrocities. CF is not the place for broad brush or blanket statements about groups and political parties. Put the broad brushes and blankets away when you come to CF, better yet, put them in the incinerator. Debate had no place for them. We need to remember that people that commit acts of violence represent themselves or a small extreme faction.

Cartoons or real?

xr022kbKr02h

...haiz...
Oct 7, 2003
270
12
nil
✟731.00
Faith
Other Religion
Marital Status
Single
Are angels really dressed in white
Do angles really have wings (i don't really think a powerful being need wings to fly...but anyway...)
Is heaven's ground really made of clouds
Is heaven really white in color
Does God really have a beard (who says enlightened being must grow a beard?)
Do jesus really have a ball of light around his head

Or are these just imagined by humans?
 

BarbB

I stand with my brothers and sisters in Israel!
Aug 6, 2003
14,246
508
77
NJ summers; FL winters
✟33,048.00
Faith
Messianic
Politics
US-Republican
ruixiangz said:
Are angels really dressed in white

I could find no confirmation in my online NIV Bible.

Do angles really have wings (i don't really think a powerful being need wings to fly...but anyway...)
Cherubim who protect the Ark of the Covenant have 2 wings.

Others have 2 also!
ZEC 5:9 Then I looked up--and there before me were two women, with the wind in their wings! They had wings like those of a stork, and they lifted up the basket between heaven and earth..
But the seraphim who are at the throne of God have 6 wings.
Isaiah 6:2 Above him were seraphs, each with six wings: With two wings they covered their faces, with two they covered their feet, and with two they were flying. [3] And they were calling to one another:
"Holy, holy, holy is the LORD Almighty;
the whole earth is full of his glory."

Is heaven's ground really made of clouds
Is heaven really white in color

Check this out - Revelation 21:10 - Heaven is made of gemstones, gold, etc. I imagine it to look like the most beautiful country imaginable.

[10] And he carried me away in the Spirit to a mountain great and high, and showed me the Holy City, Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God. [11] It shone with the glory of God, and its brilliance was like that of a very precious jewel, like a jasper, clear as crystal. [12] It had a great, high wall with twelve gates, and with twelve angels at the gates. On the gates were written the names of the twelve tribes of Israel. [13] There were three gates on the east, three on the north, three on the south and three on the west. [14] The wall of the city had twelve foundations, and on them were the names of the twelve apostles of the Lamb.

REV 21:15 The angel who talked with me had a measuring rod of gold to measure the city, its gates and its walls. [16] The city was laid out like a square, as long as it was wide. He measured the city with the rod and found it to be 12,000 stadia in length, and as wide and high as it is long. [17] He measured its wall and it was 144 cubits thick, by man's measurement, which the angel was using. [18] The wall was made of jasper, and the city of pure gold, as pure as glass. [19] The foundations of the city walls were decorated with every kind of precious stone. The first foundation was jasper, the second sapphire, the third chalcedony, the fourth emerald, [20] the fifth sardonyx, the sixth carnelian, the seventh chrysolite, the eighth beryl, the ninth topaz, the tenth chrysoprase, the eleventh jacinth, and the twelfth amethyst. [21] The twelve gates were twelve pearls, each gate made of a single pearl. The great street of the city was of pure gold, like transparent glass.

Does God really have a beard (who says enlightened being must grow a beard?)

I couldn't find a reference to "enlightened being must grow a beard" - rather that it is a sign of repentance or shame to pull one's beard out.

Do jesus really have a ball of light around his head

Description of Jesus by John!
REV 1:12 I turned around to see the voice that was speaking to me. And when I turned I saw seven golden lampstands, [13] and among the lampstands was someone "like a son of man," dressed in a robe reaching down to his feet and with a golden sash around his chest. [14] His head and hair were white like wool, as white as snow, and his eyes were like blazing fire. [15] His feet were like bronze glowing in a furnace, and his voice was like the sound of rushing waters. [16] In his right hand he held seven stars, and out of his mouth came a sharp double-edged sword. His face was like the sun shining in all its brilliance.

Also, sunlight and lamplight will no longer be needed!

REV 21:22 I did not see a temple in the city, because the Lord God Almighty and the Lamb are its temple. [23] The city does not need the sun or the moon to shine on it, for the glory of God gives it light, and the Lamb is its lamp. [24] The nations will walk by its light, and the kings of the earth will bring their splendor into it. [25] On no day will its gates ever be shut, for there will be no night there. [26] The glory and honor of the nations will be brought into it. [27] Nothing impure will ever enter it, nor will anyone who does what is shameful or deceitful, but only those whose names are written in the Lamb's book of life.

REV 22:1 Then the angel showed me the river of the water of life, as clear as crystal, flowing from the throne of God and of the Lamb [2] down the middle of the great street of the city. On each side of the river stood the tree of life, bearing twelve crops of fruit, yielding its fruit every month. And the leaves of the tree are for the healing of the nations. [3] No longer will there be any curse. The throne of God and of the Lamb will be in the city, and his servants will serve him. [4] They will see his face, and his name will be on their foreheads. [5] There will be no more night. They will not need the light of a lamp or the light of the sun, for the Lord God will give them light. And they will reign for ever and ever.

Or are these just imagined by humans?

No, not imagined by humans, but seen by John the Revelator! Read Revelations for all the descriptions of heaven, Jesus and God the Father!
 
Upvote 0

theseed

Contributor
Site Supporter
Dec 25, 2003
6,026
132
Clarksville, TN
Visit site
✟53,288.00
Gender
Male
Faith
Baptist
Marital Status
Married
Politics
US-Others
Angel = messenger in the greek

Angels are always described as powerful and masculine, and rarely, if ever, humanoid. Some people believe that angels form into a hiarchy where some are more powerful. Now that i think about, sometimes Angels (Genesis) can appear as people (illusion).

Only 3 angles are named in the bible, Lucifer, Michael, and Gabriel. Lucifer means son of the morning star, and was the angel that rebelled against God and became what we call Satan.
 
Upvote 0