Can Angels Take Human Form?

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Basically, my question is the title, can angels take human form?

I need to know the answer to this question because of something that happened to me almost two decades ago, which was absolutely 100% life-altering. I want to share my story, and I have, with only three other people, because of how personally it affected me and the feeling that occurred as it happened… so I’m sure you can probably all speculate where I’m going… but looking for biblical or other references that would answer my question.

Thank you.
 
Yes. There are many stories in the Bible where angels appeared in human form.
 
They can, but is an apparent form, not a live human body.

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This icon represents the Holy Trinity, usually represented as angels in human form with wings. They are the three men that visited Abraham and Sarah in Genesis 18, to confirm that Sarah will indeed have a son. They then proceed to visit Sodom and Gomorrah.

So angels do take on human form and so does God.
 
Yes. There are many published accounts. I have read about several encounters over the years involving missionaries who were assisted by angels in human form. They were remarkable stories and can’t be explained any other way.
 
arch-angels can & will take human form when God so desires it

scripturally although are 9 tiers of angels ; only the 2nd lowest (archangels) have ever appeared in human form
we as humans could probably not handle the mightier ranks of angels
 
Yes they can. I also think [though I have nothing to back it up] that God can speak to us through other people.
 
Isn’t that what the book of Tobit tells us happened with the angel Raphael? The question I would want clarification on is if fallen angels can do this as well and really deceive us.
 
Do not neglect to show hospitality to strangers, for thereby some have entertained angels unawares. (Hebrews 13:2)
 
From Genesis 19:
1Now the two angels came to Sodom in the evening as Lot was sitting in the gate of Sodom. When Lot saw them, he rose to meet them and bowed down with his face to the ground. 2 And he said, “Now behold, my lords, please turn aside into your servant’s house, and spend the night, and wash your feet; then you may rise early and go on your way.” They said however, “No, but we shall spend the night in the square.” 3 Yet he urged them strongly, so they turned aside to him and entered his house; and he prepared a feast for them, and baked unleavened bread, and they ate.
 
The angelic form which consoled me had the form of a human - but when I turned the light on nobody was there. Turned the light off again, and there were the arms, and chest I was held against, and the consolation and love. No breasts, so I took it as a male, though it could just as easily have been an asexual being, which angels are supposed to be.
 
ChurchSoldier said:
From Genesis 19:
1Now the two angels came to Sodom in the evening as Lot was sitting in the gate of Sodom. When Lot saw them, he rose to meet them and bowed down with his face to the ground. 2 And he said, “Now behold, my lords, please turn aside into your servant’s house, and spend the night, and wash your feet; then you may rise early and go on your way.” They said however, “No, but we shall spend the night in the square.” 3 Yet he urged them strongly, so they turned aside to him and entered his house; and he prepared a feast for them, and baked unleavened bread, and they ate.
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So where did the food go when these angels in human form, ate?

Im wondering if the angels sort of ‘took over’ another human persons body, to use during this time, or if they somehow made a ‘generic’ human body materialize?
 
mikekle said:
So where did the food go when these angels in human form, ate?

Im wondering if the angels sort of ‘took over’ another human persons body, to use during this time, or if they somehow made a ‘generic’ human body materialize?
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That question gets answered in the Book of Tobit, the angel Raphael explains this to Tobias right after Raphael gives mankind insight to The angelic office he holds which is a topic that doesn’t show up in scripture again until the Book of Revelation!
 
JoeFreedom said:
Basically, my question is the title, can angels take human form?

I need to know the answer to this question because of something that happened to me almost two decades ago, which was absolutely 100% life-altering. I want to share my story, and I have, with only three other people, because of how personally it affected me and the feeling that occurred as it happened… so I’m sure you can probably all speculate where I’m going… but looking for biblical or other references that would answer my question.

Thank you.
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so what happened to you Joe?
 
Pythagoras said:
so what happened to you Joe?
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Sorry for not responding sooner.

About two decades ago, when my life was essentially in the gutter (let’s say most of the choices I made were poor choices and choices that would have damned me to hell if I died), and for the sake of security, I won’t necessarily go into details (you know how things are today)… I was at the lowest of lows.

It was during my college years, and I remember the event like it was yesterday, the feeling that occurred all over my body when it did. I was slouched in the hallway of my dorm, it was a normal weekend day, with activity all over. No one really paid much attention to my condition; I was down and out (depressed and run down), but lucid (let’s just say that), because I don’t want anyone to think this was some sort of hallucination, because it wasn’t (I had full faculties).

I saw someone out of the corner of my eye walking towards me. I don’t know exactly why he caught my eye or what it was that caught my eye, but I knew something was “odd”. But at the same time I really didn’t go on all that much about caring. He approached me, touched my shoulder, and said these exact words to me, that I’ll never forget, and every time I think about them, I get goosebumps, “Joe, you will be okay.”.

I had never seen this person before, and never saw him again. I have no idea how he knew my name and no idea why he knew I would be okay, or why he even cared.

He continued walking down the hall and left, disappearing out the fourth floor dorm hallway, amongst a whole bunch of other people. But as he touched me on the shoulder, everything changed. My life had been a waste, I had made it that way. All of my choices were bringing me closer to things none of us want to consider. At that moment, I knew I was to turn my life around. I felt a real presence, a desire to change, that things would be okay. An immense feeling of acceptance, love, and relief took over my soul. It was so real that it is almost impossible to describe. That very next day I called home to my parents and told them I was done with that school and needed to come home. I didn’t know what I was going to do or why. I finished out the last 2-3 weeks of school, and went home, and started to turn my life around.

It took me many years to realize that this was no accident.
 
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