It was a bad play, real grade-A turkey, which only a prevalence of angels with grandiose dreams of capital gain and tax money to burn could have put into rehearsal.

Christianity depicts a sharp distinction between angels, divine beings created by God before the creation of humanity and are used as messengers, and saints, the souls of humans who have received immortality from the grace of God through faith in Jesus Christ of Nazareth, who dwell in Heaven with God.

When told they were called " Anglii " ( Angles ), he replied with a Latin pun that translates well into English: “ Bene, nam et angelicam habent faciem, et tales angelorum in caelis decet esse coheredes ” (" It is well, for they have an angelic face, and such people ought to be co-heirs of the angels in heaven ").

Judaism also does not have a notion of hell as a place ruled by Satan since God's dominion is total and Satan is only one of God's angels.

In the report of the system of Basilides, we are told that our world was made by the angels who occupy the lowest heaven ; but special mention is made of their chief, who is said to have been the God of the Jews, to have led that people out of the land of Egypt, and to have given them their law.

The multitude of deities, or Devas, of the historical Vedic religion have a subordinate and secondary status vis-a-vis the One Supreme God, a status that some authors have even tried to express by comparing it to that of Western demigods or angels ; Prakashanand Saraswati, in " The true history and the religion of India ", prefers the term " celestial gods ".

Christ, the saints, and the angels all have halos.

But so much is written for the sake of proving that Jesus the Christ is the Son of God and His Apostle, being of old the Word, and appearing sometimes in the form of fire, and sometimes in the likeness of angels ; but now, by the will of God, having become man for the human race, He endured all the sufferings which the devils instigated the Jews to inflict upon Him ; who, though they have it expressly affirmed in the writings of Moses, “ And the angel of God spake to Moses in a flame of fire in a bush, and said, I am that I am, the God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob ,” yet maintain that He who said this was the Father and Creator of the universe.

Jacobus de Voragine, compiling his Legenda Aurea ( Golden Legend ) before the competition arose, characterized Mary Magdalene as the emblem of penitence, washing the feet of Jesus with her copious tears ( although it is now believed that Mary of Bethany was the woman known for washing or anointing the feet of Jesus ) protectress of pilgrims to Jerusalem, daily lifting by angels at the meal hour in her fasting retreat and many other miraculous happenings in the genre of Romance, ending with her death in the oratory of Saint Maximin, all disingenuously claimed to have been drawn from the histories of Hegesippus and of Josephus.

Many persons and beings have falsely pretended to be gods or demons during history ; in particular, none of the ones claiming to be major figures from Judeo-Christian beliefs has turned out to be the real article, although a number of angels have appeared in recent years, as well as an apparent true rebellion and expulsion of angels from a higher realm known as Paradise, proving that some form of Heaven and Hell do exist in this Universe, seemingly like those in keeping with common real world religious belief.

Among those angels, the revelation listed " Moroni, whom I have sent unto you to reveal the book of Mormon, containing the fulness of my everlasting gospel ; to whom I have committed the keys of the record of the stick of Ephraim " ( id .).

Throughout his life, Smith claimed to have been visited by a number of angels.

In the historical relationship between metaphysics and philosophy of religion, the traditional objects of religious discussion have been very special sorts of entities ( such as gods, angels, supernatural forces, and the like ) and events, abilities, or processes ( the creation of the universe, the ability to do or know anything, interaction between humans and gods, and so forth ).

For as the angels were mismanaging the world, owing to their individual lust for rule, he had come to set things straight, and had descended under a changed form, likening himself to the Principalities and Powers through whom he passed, so that among men he appeared as a man, though he was not a man, and was thought to have suffered in Judaea, though he had not suffered.

The monastery is said to have been ' filled with angels as Christ received his soul.

* In the anime Neon Genesis Evangelion the Tree of Life is said to be what the titular " angels " were said to have eaten, granting them immortality, whereas humanity was said to have eaten from the Tree Of Knowledge of Good And Evil.

Representations of angels on sarcophagi and on objects such as lamps and reliquaries of that period also show them without wings, as for example the angel in the Sacrifice of Isaac scene in the Sarcophagus of Junius Bassus.

The earliest known representation of angels with wings is on what is called the Prince's Sarcophagus, discovered at Sarigüzel, near Istanbul, in the 1930s, and attributed to the time of Theodosius I ( 379-395 ).

In this same period, Saint John Chrysostom explained the significance of angels ' wings: " They manifest a nature's sublimity.

From then on, though of course with some exceptions, Christian art represented angels with wings, as in the cycle of mosaics in the Basilica of Saint Mary Major ( 432-440 ).

Multi-winged angels, often with only their face and wings showing, drawn from the higher grades of angels, especially cherubim and seraphim, are derived from Persian art, and are usually shown only in heavenly contexts, as opposed to performing tasks on earth.

At each turn the v shape at the bottom of the angels " wings " jambed the stay preventing slippage.

They include paintings of a fallen angel with the wings of a bat, a demon with the tail of a serpent, angels playing instruments, a tiger, an elephant, an ostrich, domestic and wild animals, a mermaid, a dragon, a centaur, a butcher, a knight, and a juggler.

The two angels were expelled from Heaven after Loki got extremely drunk, quit his position as the Angel of Death, and gave God the finger ; they realize that they can exploit a doctrinal loophole and get back into heaven if they lose their wings, are absolved of their sins, and then die by some means other than suicide.

The inventories of Margaret of Austria, drawn up in 1524, allude to a triptych of the God of Pity by Roger van der Weyden, of which the wings containing angels were by " Master Hans ".

The insides of the wings represent angels singing and making music, and on the outside Adam and Eve.

Referencing the Bible 2 Kings 2: 11 and in many other instances where a flying craft or angels with wings are described, Fard convinced His followers that God has always had and used superior technological power and flying vehicles.

As well, church artists increasingly showed angels with ever more accurate depictions of bird-like wings, detailing the wing's camber ( curvature ) that would prove beneficial to generating the lifting forces enabling a bird – or an airplane – to fly.

Two medieval wall paintings, one of two angels with feathered wings, and one of a now faded saint, can still be seen inside the church.

The Dominions are believed to look like divinely beautiful humans with a pair of feathered wings, much like the common representation of angels, but they may be distinguished from other groups by wielding orbs of light fastened to the heads of their scepters or on the pommel of their swords.

Their " wings " allow sea angels to swim much faster than the larger ( usually fused ) wings of sea butterflies.

The Man on the throne, however, can only drive when the four angels connect their wings.

They are shaped a little like angels, and have flapping " wings ", hence their common name.

In the end, after the boys leave and with his house left almost destroyed, Donald spots a page which reads " After all, little children are only angels without wings ".

When Jaffar tells the Prince to do so as well, Matton leaps into the being and does so, not only destroying it and the building but causing the skin and wings of all the angels to peel away to reveal that they were originally scruffy spacemen reminiscent of pirates.

And the Earl of Suffolk spared no expense in embellishing the interior: the de la Pole crest is carved above the entrance ; French stone was used for the tower and nave ; the roof, although the typical wooden East Anglian style, is an elaborate hammerbeam confection with elaborate angels curving off the beam ends, and a trio of angels on outstretched wings hovering over each clerestory window.

They are normally, but not invariably, all shown with wings like angels.

`` Are you referring, sir '', asked Helva politely, `` to the Dark Age discussions of the number of angels who could stand on the head of a pin ''??

Do not let anyone who delights in false humility and the worship of angels disqualify you for the prize.

' Then he will say to those on his left, ' Depart from me, you who are cursed, into the eternal fire prepared for the devil and his angels.

sakīnah is mentioned six times in the Quran, in chapters 2, 9 and 48. Their prophet said to them: " The sign of his kingship is that the Ark will come to you in which there is tranquility from your Lord and a relic from the family of Moses and the family of Aaron, borne by the angels.

" To this day, you ’ ve remained one of my best angels, and not just mine, but all of ours who, week after week, trust that our nicked and ragged selves, however hard we try to press them, will somehow serve to bring God ’ s truth to life.

The New Testament speaks frequently of angels ( for example, angels giving messages to Mary, Joseph, and the shepherds ; angels ministering to Christ after his temptation in the wilderness, an angel visiting Christ in his agony, angels at the tomb of the risen Christ, the angels who liberate the Apostles Peter and Paul from prison ); however, it uses the word " archangel " only twice: " When the archangel Michael, contending with the devil, was disputing about the body of Moses, he did not presume to pronounce a blasphemous judgment, but said, ' The Lord rebuke you '" (); and " The Lord himself will descend from heaven with a cry of command, with the voice of an archangel, and with the sound of the trumpet of God " ().

" Then He will also say to those on the left hand, “ Depart from Me, you cursed, into the everlasting fire prepared for the devil and his angels ; for I was hungry and you gave Me no food, I was thirsty and you gave Me no drink, I was a stranger and you did not take Me in, naked and you did not clothe Me, sick and in prison and you did not visit Me .” ... “ Assuredly, I say to you, inasmuch as you did not do it to one of the least of these, you did not do it to me .” And these will go away into everlasting punishment, but the righteous into eternal life.

: And angels shall enter unto them from every gate ( saying ) Salāmun ‘ Alaykum ( peace be upon you ) for that you persevered in patience!

For I tell you that their angels in heaven always see the face of my Father in heaven " ( New International Version ).

Angels are everywhere the intermediaries between God and man ; and Christ set a seal upon the Old Testament teaching: " See that you despise not one of these little ones: for I say to you, that their angels in heaven always see the face of my Father who is in heaven.