Question 16. How did God create angels?

 

Question 16. How did God create angels?

Answer. God created angels as spirits, immortal spirits, holy, excellent in knowledge, powerful, and made them to keep God’s commandments and praise His holy name, but subject to change.

 

Angels are spiritual beings. Therefore, they can be said to be immortal beings. Hebrews 1:14 "Are they not all ministering spirits sent forth to minister for those who will inherit salvation?"

Spiritual beings also have spiritual bodies. So angels also have spiritual bodies. 1 Corinthians 15:44 "It is sown a natural body, it is raised a spiritual body. If there is a natural body, there is also a spiritual body."

In the Old Testament, Jehovah appeared to Abraham with his angels. Genesis 18:1-3 "Now the LORD appeared to Abraham by the oaks of Mamre, as he was sitting at the tent door in the heat of the day. He lifted up his eyes and looked, and behold, three men were standing opposite him. When he saw them, he ran to meet them from the tent door and bowed down to the ground and said, 'My lord, if I have found favor in your sight, do not pass by your servant.'"

You can see them eating. In Genesis 18:8, "Abraham took curds and milk and the calf that he had prepared and set it before them. He stood by them under the tree and they ate."

The saints can speak of the spiritual body as the body of resurrection. Resurrection does not mean that the body dies and comes back to life, but that it is born as a mysterious body from heaven. They also say that the resurrected body is not a body like a man or woman living in the world, but like an angel.

Luke 20:35-36 But those who are accounted worthy to attain that age and the resurrection from the dead neither marry nor are given in marriage, nor can they die any more, for they are equal to angels and are children of God, being children of the resurrection.

When the spirit takes on a spiritual body, that body appears as a body that transcends space. It appears and disappears suddenly. Jesus appeared to his disciples suddenly after his resurrection and then disappeared.

John 20:19 Then on the evening of that first day of the week, when the doors were shut where the disciples were for fear of the Jews, Jesus came and stood among them and said to them, "Peace be with you." John 20:26 After eight days the disciples were in the house again, and Thomas was with them. The doors were shut, but Jesus came and stood among them and said to them, "Peace be with you." The resurrected Jesus' body was also transformed. The disciples did not recognize the resurrected Jesus even though they met him on the road to Emmaus.

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