Do you think people become like angels when they die?

I mean before Jesus comes back again, and the dead are in rest. What sort of jobs do they have? Do they see us? Do they guard us? Look after us? I believe in the Bible, but the Bible never says what exactly happens before Jesus makes the new heaven and new earth. I do not think we are floating around playing little harps, that would be boring.

What do you think happens? What do you imagine happening?

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hunkalove · 61-69, M

Angels are created as angels. People don't become angels. The energy you are has always been here and will always be here, but when your brain dies you die, then you become someone else. It goes on and on....

AliceinWonderland · F

@hunkalove i dont think they become angels either, but i wonder if we wont have purpose/work to do in the afterlife.

hunkalove · 61-69, M

@AliceinWonderland In our next life.

4meAndyou · F

No. I believe that God uses human beings who are alive and have a mouth to speak and two hands to perform works AS angels on earth, as messengers and helpers. I believe that the spirits of the dead are most likely absorbed into the body of God...IF they are not permeated with pain or evil intentions.

Graylight · 51-55, F

"Come back like angels"?

How, exactly, do you see angels, which are not humans, nor may humans ever be angels according to tradition?

Ezekiel 1:5-9 - And this was their appearance: they had a human likeness, but each had four faces, and each of them had four wings. Their legs were straight, and the soles of their feet were like the sole of a calf's foot. And they sparkled like burnished bronze.

Angels in the Bible aren't anything like the Hallmark angels we've come to cherish. Angels are harbingers of great catastrophe and violence.

AliceinWonderland · F

@Graylight some are messengers like Gabriel. i wasn't saying they are angels, i was just using my imagination and wondering what happens when we die.

Graylight · 51-55, F

@AliceinWonderland I get it. And no one but Renaissance painters said Gabriel was anything like a human figure.

There's a part of me that hopes (maybe not in angelic form) that there will be those watching over the lonely, the struggling, the scared. I personally believe in a process of reincarnation, though the Universe is so extensive we can’t possibly know its answers right now. Maybe it's a little bit of everything and then more.

We’re like the fly buzzing at the locked window who thinks it can perceive all of the outside world from its tiny corner of glass. Anything is possible, but I hold this to be firm: It is beneficial to the Universe, it’s beneficial to us, it promotes the Infinite Creativity and it propels us toward our individual evolutions.

Adstar · 56-60, M

Only to the extent that we shall be eternal...

We shall be higher then Angels once we are transformed at the reasurection..

(1 Corinthians 6:3) "Know ye not that [c=7700B2][u]we shall judge angels[/u][/c]? how much more things that pertain to this life?"

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AliceinWonderland · F

@jshm2 i know they are different

SW-User

Since the Bible was assembled to please a former British monarch, it's very possible those details were left on the cutting room floor. I'm not a believer but I do find some of it fascinating and would love the chance to read what was left out just to see where it would land on questions like this.

Graylight · 51-55, F

@SW-User Your history is off. King James came much later.

SW-User

@Graylight King James cobbled together multiple religious texts when commissioning his version. I'm not giving a history lesson Gray. Should I decide to do that you are welcome to judge it.

Graylight · 51-55, F

@SW-User This had been done previously. There wasn't even a Bible until after Constantine, but he's credited with assembling a large amount of text. The King James Bible wasn't published until 1611. The first complete copies of single New Testament books appear around 200, and the earliest complete copy of the New Testament, the Codex Sinaiticus, dates to the 4th century. Today, the King James Version is considered "authoritative," but it's hard;y the first and hardly the only one.

SW-User

I like to think all the angels already walk amongst us 😇

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