(Serious Question) Since Holy Angels can appear as men, Fallen Angels can also appear as men ?

[Jude1:3Contendforthefaith]

I think that it's both demons and fallen angels (What ever their origin is / nephilim etc.) that possess people.

 

[Divide]

I think that it's both demons and fallen angels (What ever their origin is / nephilim etc.) that possess people.

Again, their origin is as the spirits of the union between the fallen angels and the women that they bred offspring with.

God has a very specific plan for humans on this earth. That plan was not to include hybrid species. That's why they are unredeemable. They were not supposed to do that! So God punished the ones responsible and killed the rest. But they are all still wandering the earth, unless they have had a unwitting soul invite them in.

It wouldn't surprise me if the government made deals with them (when they were masquerading as Aliens in UFO's) to be able to abduct people with impunity.

Almost every single story of UFO abuction that I ever heard about they were saying that the Aliens always diddled with their reproductive systems in some way. Gathering biological material perhaps? And all the cow mutilations? Genetic material. Why couldn't they be cloning bodies for themselves for the Nephilim spirits to inhabit and thereby increase their numbers.

They are prolly hiding them underground all over and will release them at their chosen time...

 

[Jude1:3Contendforthefaith]

Again, their origin is as the spirits of the union between the fallen angels and the women that they bred offspring with.

God has a very specific plan for humans on this earth. That plan was not to include hybrid species. That's why they are unredeemable. They were not supposed to do that! So God punished the ones responsible and killed the rest. But they are all still wandering the earth, unless they have had a unwitting soul invite them in.

It wouldn't surprise me if the government made deals with them (when they were masquerading as Aliens in UFO's) to be able to abduct people with impunity.

Almost every single story of UFO abuction that I ever heard about they were saying that the Aliens always diddled with their reproductive systems in some way. Gathering biological material perhaps? And all the cow mutilations? Genetic material. Why couldn't they be cloning bodies for themselves for the Nephilim spirits to inhabit and thereby increase their numbers.

They are prolly hiding them underground all over and will release them at their chosen time...

You would agree that Both fallen angels And demons can possess people though right ?

 

[Divide]

You would agree that Both fallen angels And demons can possess people though right ?

Well, I think that perhaps they "can" if they so desired to but whether or not they would actually want to is another question. I do not believe that (even if they could) that it was a typical thing for them to do. Otherwise we should see it in the new testament, right?


Jesus cast out a lot of demons, the Apostles casted out (most) evil spirits, but I've never been able to find where it said that a fallen angel was cast out of someone, anyone. I think that would be there if it happened or was a typical thing to happen.

If you think about it, the fallen angels probably all survived the flood in Noah's time. How's that, you say?
They can fly.

 

[Jude1:3Contendforthefaith]

Well, I think that perhaps they "can" if they so desired to but whether or not they would actually want to is another question. I do not believe that (even if they could) that it was a typical thing for them to do. Otherwise we should see it in the new testament, right?


Jesus cast out a lot of demons, the Apostles casted out (most) evil spirits, but I've never been able to find where it said that a fallen angel was cast out of someone, anyone. I think that would be there if it happened or was a typical thing to happen.

If you think about it, the fallen angels probably all survived the flood in Noah's time. How's that, you say?
They can fly.

I'm pretty sure their name of what they were called was changed after the rebellion. (Angel to demon, I don't know though)

Satan does enter Judas in the NT.

 

[Jipsah]

There is one idea i have hear before. That the antichirst may be a product satan having a sexual encounter with a women and she birth this person.​

Scripture says no such thing.

 

[Divide]

I'm pretty sure their name of what they were called was changed after the rebellion. (Angel to demon, I don't know though)

Satan does enter Judas in the NT.

No because there are refrences to fallen angels here and there.

I'm no Demonologist or anything like that just that I have studiiied it a bit. But from what I have pieced togethure, Angels are created beings. The Nephilim have all been earth born.

What we do know for sure, is that in the spiritual realm, more than one spirit can enter into someone and possess them. The story about the pigs in scripture says a legion of spirits were in that guy.

And on the Righteous side and God, what are we taught? That Jesus is the head. Us believers who will be saved will make up the body of Christ. So that will prolly make up even more than a legion! (How much is a Legion? Lol!)

I'm not 100% on how that all works in the spiritual realm, but the enemy seems to want that and God also wants that! I've surmised that maybe there is a geometric progression and multiplication of power or whatever (Love) whenever it is corporate and in fellowship with others. That's the same reason that God wants us to worship Him in concert with other believers I'll bet!!

But for us living here on this ditball, what can we say? Be careful to not accidently get possessed by an evil one, and strive to have the Lord God abiding with you instead.

 

[d taylor]

Scripture says no such thing.

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Never said The Bible said that.

 

[The Liturgist]

true

true.

In fact Satan can appear as Christ and his fellow fallen angels can appear as angels coming to earth with "Christ" who is in fact a false Christ - Satan "as a being of light" - Satan appearing as Christ.

2 Cor 11:12 And I will keep on doing what I am doing in order to cut the ground from under those who want an opportunity to be considered equal with us in the things they boast about. 13 For such people are false apostles, deceitful workers, masquerading as apostles of Christ. 14 And no wonder, for Satan himself masquerades as an angel of light. 15 It is not surprising, then, if his servants also masquerade as servants of righteousness.

2 Thess 2:3 Let no one in any way deceive you, for it will not come unless the apostasy comes first, and the man of lawlessness is revealed, the son of destruction, 4 who opposes and exalts himself above every so-called god or object of worship, so that he takes his seat in the temple of God, displaying himself as being God. 5 Do you not remember that while I was still with you, I was telling you these things? 6 And you know what restrains him now, so that in his time he will be revealed. 7 For the mystery of lawlessness is already at work; only he who now restrains will do so until he is taken out of the way. 8 Then that lawless one will be revealed whom the Lord will slay with the breath of His mouth and bring to an end by the appearance of His coming; 9 that is, the one whose coming is in accord with the activity of Satan, with all power and signs and false wonders, 10 and with all the deception of wickedness for those who perish, because they did not receive the love of the truth so as to be saved. 11 For this reason God will send upon them a deluding influence so that they will believe what is false,

Matt 24:24 For false Christs and false prophets will arise and will show great signs and wonders, so as to mislead, if possible, even the elect

The ultimate false Christ - the one that could have a very good chance of deceiving even the very elect - is the one that comes as a bright and shiny Christ appearing in the heavens surrounded by a lot of bright and shining angels.

But as you also say - they can appear as normal humans or as Rev 16 says - they can appear as "frog-like" beings. To be "like frogs" does not mean they appear to BE frogs. Rather they appear to have some feature like a frog's feature in some aspect of their appearance.

Rev 16:13 And I saw coming out of the mouth of the dragon and out of the mouth of the beast and out of the mouth of the false prophet, three unclean spirits like frogs; 14 for they are spirits of demons, performing signs, which go out to the kings of the whole world, to gather them together for the war of the great day of God, the Almighty. 15 (“Behold, I am coming like a thief. Blessed is the one who stays awake and keeps his clothes, so that he will not walk about naked and men will not see his shame.”) 16 And they gathered them together to the place which in Hebrew is called Har-Magedon.

Indeed, BobRyan is quite right on his key points, although I have not looked into the issue of demons having a frog-like appearance too much; I think Revelation generally works better with Alexandrian Christological-typological exegesis combined with Antiochene literal-historical, as much of what it described I personally believe happened, for example, the Number of the Beast appears to be a cypher for Nero, and I subscribe to an amillenial rather than Chiliast interpretation.

However, the issue of a frog-like appearance of demons aside, BobRyan is very much correct about demons appearing as angels of light, or as Jesus Christ, or as many other things. Indeed in the Life of Anthony, St. Athanasius describes in detail the Wagnerian attacks and Machiavellian attempts at deception through simulation, dissimulation, illusion and other falsity used by demons and the devil himself in an attempt to dissuade St. Anthony from pursuing a life of solitary prayer in the desert. These ranged from attacks by demons in the form of animals, to apparent earthquakes (to make him afraid the structure he was dwelling in would collapse) to plates of gold and silver filled with gemstones appearing in the desert, to the devil appearing in the form of a boy claiming that St. Anthony had defeated him, in an attempt to elicit sympathy or pride. And indeed it is St. Anthony who warns “Expect temptation until your last breadth.”

Additionally, demons are, as BobRyan mentioned, well known for appearing as angels, to the point where the Early Church Fathers and the Orthodox Church generally recommend making the Sign of the Cross if one encounters an apparent angel, as many demons cannot tolerate this, and the cross does put them to flight, and also challenging them with questions about Christ and His Gospel. There have been at least two incidents where monastics were persuaded, in one case successfully, to leap into a chasm, after having been told that due to their asceticism they had earned the right to fly (as monastics advance in defeating the passions such as the desires for sex, money, possessions, fine food, and so on, basically, lust, gluttony, avarice, sloth, envy and wrath, the passion they become the most susceptible to is pride at their achievements, and if they succumb to pride, which is routine, the rest of their accomplishments collapse like dominoes. However, this should not be interpreted as meaning the monastic vocation is futile, for it is a good and holy thing to dedicate oneself to holy celibacy according to St. Paul, and to embrace virginity or abstinence and dedicate oneself to prayer and service to God. And when a monk does go off the path and succumb to temptation, one famous Eastern Orthodox monk explained “Sometimes we fall down and when we do, we help each other to get back up.” ( @prodromos or @HTacianas or @PsaltiChrysostom might know who I am quoting; Metropolitan Kallistos Ware, memory eternal, quoted him in a lecture I listened to years ago when I was still a neophyte and also suffering from a bit of convertitis, also known as Hyperdox Herman syndrome. In the other case of fallen angels tempting a monk to jump off a cliff by promising that he could fly, or be bourne aloft by the demons posing as angels (and then dropped at a convenient altitude), we see an example of other monks helping a brother who has fallen into prelest, or spiritual delusion, as a result of pride or other passions, two of the brethren physically restrained the monk, for otherwise he would have fallen not only into prelest, but into the ground, at a velocity where the sudden stop of impact would be incompatible with life.

This underscores also a major point about safety in the pursuit of asceticism, and that being going it alone as a solitary or hermit is generally a bad idea, being notoriously unsafe for all but the most experienced monastics, who have received a blessing to live that way. For solitary monks have no assistance, no one to talk to, to help ensure their mental and spiritual wellbeing, whereas cenobitic monks, which is the vast majority of monks and nuns, who live together in monasteries, enjoy a high level of safety, benefitting from their ability to watch out for one another, and this is also the case in other forms of communal Christian living, such as idiorythmic monks, who are a bit like hermits living together (the Carthusians of the Roman Catholic Church do something similiar, albeit with a much more ordered rule and a more structured life; additionally Carthusians choir monks, unlike Orthodox monks or monastic priests, are not required to do much physical labor towards their own upkeep, for each Charterhouse (Carthusian monastery) has lay brethren who are essentially cenobitic monks whose job is to feed and care for the choir monks, who dedicate themselves to prayer, and historically also were frequently engaged in scribal work, reproducing manuscripts in the era before the printing press, something Orthodox monks also did while engaged in a more vigorous physical life, however, many Carthusian choir monks do maintain a garden in the walled off space behind their private rooms (known as cells, however it should be noted the word cell is of monastic origin and was only later applied to the rooms of a jail or prison, and also to the microbiological entities that (except in primitive single celled organisms like amoebas) link together to form the tissues and other structures of all higher life forms on Earth, including trees, jellyfish, cats, dogs, and humans, but not angels, or fallen angels, because they are pneumatic rather than biological creatures that do not die unless God annhilates them, which the Orthodox do not believe He does, although the Adventists do, owing to their annhilationist eschatology).

Also perhaps of even greater importance in terms of safety than communal living is humility, and this applies to all Christians, not just those pursuing a celibate life of prayer, but also to those living in the world, such as those called or pursuing a call to Holy Matrimony. The Bible is filled with warnings about the dangers of pride, indeed our Incarnate God and Savior Jesus Christ Himself warns us of the dangers of pride repeatedly, for example, in Matthew 23:12 “For whoever exalts himself will be humbled, and whoever humbles himself will be exalted.” And there is another similar warning in Matthew 18:1-4, and in Luke 14:7-11, and Luke 18:9-14.

And King Solomon in His proverbs likewise cautions us, and he is a man in a good position to do so, for unquestionably he is a saint but one who did clearly make the mistake of exalting himself on occasion, as well as engaging in an excess of lust, despite his great wisdom, but who clearly was a man of repentance, as we see reflected in Ecclesiastes and Wisdom (which although compiled in the first century BC, and thus Wisdom 2 represents the most striking example of a Christological prophecy almost immediately before the Incarnation on a Biblical timescale, reflects a much older tradition of additional aphorisms of wisdom attributed to Solomon, and we also find warnings by the pious Old Testament saint Jesus of Sirach, in Ecclesiasticus, which along with Proverbs and Wisdom represents one of the three great collections of edifying aphorisms in the Old Testament, and an integral part of the Wisdom Literature along with Ecclesiastes, the Song of Songs, Ruth and Job. I shall quote various warnings about pride from the Old and New Testaments below, before moving on to my final argument, which this leads into:

1. Proverbs 16:18: "Pride goeth before destruction, and an haughty spirit before a fall."
2. Ecclesiastes 7:8 "Better is the end of a thing than the beginning thereof: and the patient in spirit is better than the proud in spirit."
3. Proverbs 11:2 "When pride cometh, then cometh shame: but with the lowly is wisdom."
4. Sirach (Ecclesiasticus) 10:12-13 : "The beginning of the pride of man, is to fall off from God. Because his heart is departed from him that made him: for pride is the beginning of all sin: he that holdeth it shall be filled with maledictions, and it shall ruin him in the end."
5. James 4:6: "But he giveth more grace. Wherefore he saith, God resisteth the proud, but giveth grace unto the humble."
6. 1 Peter 5:5 "Likewise, ye younger, submit yourselves unto the elder. Yea, all of you be subject one to another, and be clothed with humility: for God resisteth the proud, and giveth grace to the humble."

So, with that established, I would argue that humility best defense against demons or the devil posing as angels, or as Jesus Christ, or as ordinary men, or anything else, is humility, especially in the case of them posing as persons of holiness, such as our Lord or the Blessed Virgin or God the Father (be extremely suspicious of any appearance of God the Father, as many Patristic authorities and contemporary theologians believe that God the Father has no physical appearance, and that this explains “no one can see God and live” and “No man hath seen God at any time; the only begotten Son, which is in the bosom of the Father, he hath declared him”, so there is strong reason to believe any appearance of God the Father specifically as a Zeus-like figure is false; I myself experienced one in a dream, and my confessors have advised me that it was likely of a devilish origin, particularly given the nonsensical things said; in general the Orthodox are mistrustful of dreams as these can easily be manipulated). So if you think you are encountering an angel, or a saint, or God, whether in the person of the Father, the Son or the Holy Ghost, you should make the sign of the cross, test that spirit, as per St. Paul, making sure what it says is consistent with the Gospel of Christ our God as understood by the Early Church and as reflected in the Nicene Creed, et cetera, and above all, humble yourself, asking yourself “am I worthy to be receiving instructions from Christ, or to be encountering this holy person, or this angel?” It is also an Orthodox teaching that if on the road you encounter a priest and an angel, you should greet the priest first, for the priest handles the Body and Blood of our Lord routinely, things at which the angel is not permitted to gaze, and the angel could well be a demonic imposter. So could the priest, for that matter, but there are enough hypocritical clergy out there that I doubt the devil would need to impersonate one, unfortunately, however, we must in admitting this fact avoid anti-clerical excess, because all of us are sinful, and the important thing is that clergy admit their sins, which in the Eastern and Oriental Orthodox liturgies they do (the Byzantine Rite requires the priest to beg the forgiveness of the congregation, for he has sinned, during the Divine Liturgy, while the last thing the priest in the Syriac Orthodox liturgy says to his congregation is a request for their prayers; additionally I would note that to claim that sacraments officiated by a sinful priest are inefficacious is the heresy of Donatism, which was fashionable in the late fourth and early fifth century; the joke there is of course that there are no sinless men, so the idea of the early Waldensians that any worthy Christian man could administer the sacraments is rather deeply flawed because there are no worthy Christian men to be found on this planet; everyone is a sin and all of us must humble ourselves before God and confess our sins, only then through the grace of the Holy Spirit might we improve.

Since this post references the Oriental Orthodox as well as the Eastern Orthodox, I feel obliged to mention it to my friends @dzheremi and @coorilose , and additionally I should like to know if what I say comports with traditional Lutheran and Anglican theology and for that reason I shall mention my friends @MarkRohfrietsch @ViaCrucis @Andrewn @Philip_B and @Shane R .

 

[Andrewn]

many Patristic authorities and contemporary theologians believe that God the Father has no physical appearance, and that this explains “no one can see God and live” and “No man hath seen God at any time; the only begotten Son, which is in the bosom of the Father, he hath declared him”,

Who is the One sitting on the throne in Rev 4:2-3 whom St John saw?

so there is strong reason to believe any appearance of God the Father specifically as a Zeus-like figure is false;

While Roman Catholics and Mormons commonly depict God the Father in pictures, I understand that the EO and OO do not like pictures of our Heavenly Father.

 

[The Liturgist]

Who is the One sitting on the throne in Rev 4:2-3 whom St John saw?


While Roman Catholics and Mormons commonly depict God the Father in pictures, I understand that the EO and OO do not like pictures of our Heavenly Father.

There are some Eastern Orthodox icons that were painted with the intent to depict the Father, and there exists a minority of Eastern Orthodox theologians who defend the idea, but the majority reject it. I have never seen such an icon in a Coptic church and there are a few different traditions of Syriac and Armenian iconography, and they are obscure, but I certainly do not recall seeing any icons of this type, although I vaguely recall a wall fresco done in a recently built Syriac church in a very Western style very reminscent of the Last Judgement fresco in the Sistine Chapel, so it may have included a depiction intended to be of the Father, but I doubt it was theologically planned. Only the Coptic and Ethiopian churches have highly unified forms of iconography that are also pervasive (although to be clear, there are multiple distinct styles of Syriac and Armenian iconography, the problem is that there is great diversity in Syriac styles and a relative scarcity, although those icons which do exist are venerated greatly, and the Armenians for their part do have lots of icons but in too many diverse styles to easily get a grasp of…that said I am actively studying all three areas as well as Byzantine iconography and certain forms of Western iconography which I regard as conceptually similar to what we see in the East, as well as stained glass windows and the successful use of them in Eastern churches (a high profile but controversial example would be the Greek Orthodox Cathedral of St. Sophia in Los Angeles, which I love, but some regard as garish, and as a simple matter of fact, the decorations are not extremely traditional but feature Western influences). The study of iconography is beneficial from a liturgiological perspective, and also I love icons and I love venerating them. I was greatly disappointed that the LCMS parish I visited yesterday was almost entirely devoid of iconography, with no stained glass windows, frescoes or icons of any sort aside from the sculpture of Christ on the Crucifix.

In Revelation 4, I think most Orthodox would say that was Christ and not the Father.

 

[Philip_B]

Since this post references the Oriental Orthodox as well as the Eastern Orthodox, I feel obliged to mention it to my friends @dzheremi and @coorilose , and additionally I should like to know if what I say comports with traditional Lutheran and Anglican theology and for that reason I shall mention my friends @MarkRohfrietsch @ViaCrucis @Andrewn @Philip_B and @Shane R .

Thanks for the mention @The Liturgist

I don't think I want to be hung out to dry and the various aspects of human, angelic, demonic and spiritual beings. It is an area where I suspect the old maxim holds - if all the Anglicans in the world were laid end to end they would never reach a conclusion!

The difficulty we face in this is we know what is tangible, and what is intangible, and we struggle with tangible intangibles. The animal kingdom is made up of physical beings, and their actions are morally neutral, for they are what their nature conforms them to be. Sharks eat fish, not to be nasty, but rather because that is the nature of being a shark. Creatures in the animal kingdom take up physical space, they have dimensions. Angels on the other hand are moral beings, they make decisions that have moral outcomes, and their decisions can be right or wrong. Angels however do not have dimension as they are spiritual beings, hence the medieval discussions about how many angels you can fit on the head of a pin.

It is the condition of humanity to be moral beings who occupy time and space. It is our unique vocation to have a foot in both camps.

We meet people, most of whom are a bit like the Curate's Egg, however, occasionally we meet people who exude a sense of the divine, who in that moment may be for us and Angel, and indeed they may carry for us, or be for us, a message of the divine. Sadly, and thankfully more rarely, we meet people who seek to corrupt, distort or do us harm, and very occasionally we may meet someone we consider genuinely evil.

I struggle with many contemporary and apparently certain exegesis of apocalyptic texts because what is plain is that at least some of the messages are not plain. The abiding message of the apocalyptic is that things are bad and they are going to get worse yet those who persevere to the end will ultimately be vindicated.

Now as an Anglican, I believe in Angels and Demons, Powers and Dominions, yet I have to live out my life in time and space and make moral decisions as best as I am able, and enabled.

On the matter of depicting the Father in Iconography, I have this image my brother took of the interior dome of an Orthodox Cathedral I think in Bucharest.

 

[PsaltiChrysostom]

Thanks for the mention @The Liturgist

I don't think I want to be hung out to dry and the various aspects of human, angelic, demonic and spiritual beings. It is an area where I suspect the old maxim holds - if all the Anglicans in the world were laid end to end they would never reach a conclusion!



On the matter of depicting the Father in Iconography, I have this image my brother took of the interior dome of an Orthodox Cathedral I think in Bucharest.

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LOL on the Anglicans!!!

The image of the old man is called "Ancient of Days". It's canonical but controversial.

The Bible itself, however, uses the image of an old man, as an eidos image in the vision of Daniel, which he sees in a vision. “The Ancient of Days was seated; His garment was white as snow, and the hair of His head was like pure wool” (Dan. 7:9). In this context, however, we are not given the impression that this image refers to the hypostasis of the Father, but to God in His unified simplicity, i.e. in His oneness (The Synod of Moscow describes this vision as being of the Son). The idea symbolized here is the eternality of God, specifically that He exists before and after the earthly imperial powers which had subjected the Jewish people.

Personally, the only one I really like where the Father is depicted is Rublev's "Hospitality of Abraham" or the "OT Trinity".

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[Andrewn]

LOL on the Anglicans!!!

You can make fun of us if you like.

2Sa 16:12 Perhaps the LORD will take note of my troubles and return good to me instead of curses today!”

In this context, however, we are not given the impression that this image refers to the hypostasis of the Father, but to God in His unified simplicity, i.e. in His oneness (The Synod of Moscow describes this vision as being of the Son).

Yes, according to the article you cited, "Most Orthodox Christians are aware of the Church’s prohibition of any depiction of God the Father. The 1667 Synod of Moscow canonically forbade the depiction of God the Father in icons, though this canonical decision has not always been obeyed."

Personally, the only one I really like where the Father is depicted is Rublev's "Hospitality of Abraham" or the "OT Trinity".

No, Abrahams's visitors could not have been persons of the Holy Trinity. Two of them proceeded to visit Lot in Sodom, and the sodomites wanted to "know" them. Abraham's visitors with Christ the Lord and the two angels who proceeded to go to Sodom.

An appearance of God the Father and the Holy Spirit in human form would contradict the entire Bible.

 

[Hawkins]

Fallen angels are defined as those angelic beings who are determined by Law as traspassers, that is, Law breakers. Then they will be jailed in Abyss till the coming of the Final Judgment. Then 'technically' they will be thrown to the Lake of Fire.

Before they break the Law, they may choose to make themselves a human-like body by making a decision on breaking the Law. For example, when an angel made a decision on making a body in order to taste how he can marry a human woman, he does so by breaking the Law. Afterward there's no chance that he can do it the second time, as he is supposed to be jailed in Abyss as an action of the Law. This fallen angel however may still find a way to make use of his capability to cast influence on humans on earth and on those wicked souls remain in Hades.

 

[Divide]

Fallen angels are defined as those angelic beings who are determined by Law as traspassers, that is, Law breakers. Then they will be jailed in Abyss till the coming of the Final Judgment. Then 'technically' they will be thrown to the Lake of Fire.

Before they break the Law, they may choose to make themselves a human-like body by making a decision on breaking the Law. For example, when an angel made a decision on making a body in order to taste how he can marry a human woman, he does so by breaking the Law. Afterward there's no chance that he can do it the second time, as he is supposed to be jailed in Abyss as an action of the Law. This fallen angel however may still find a way to make use of his capability to cast influence on humans on earth and on those wicked souls remain in Hades.

Yeah right. And from what I understand that is not a good punishment. Not fun. But you know how evil thinking beings think, right? Loopholes...is there a way for us to do it without diddling the women and get in all that trouble.

Then someone suggested that they do it genetically. So that's a good reason that the sbduction stories and mutilation stories of livestock abound. They're gathering genetic material.

That's my speculation and I'm sticking with it, lol.

 

[PsaltiChrysostom]

The depiction is of the three angels but contains within it the symbolism of the Trinity. The angels outline a circle while they gaze at each other in silent contemplation. The figure in the center is dressed in red and blue, which is what Christ is depicted in in iconography. The right and left angels form a cup, with the angel in the center, symbolizing that we partake of the Communion of Christ. There is a lot more to this and for me, is the most theological icon ever made.