Do angels have wings and all males?

[Ad_Deum]

What does the Holy Bible say about the angels of God?
What is an Angel?
Is there a hierarchy of angels?
Do angels have wings?
How many archangels do we have?
Do they sing?
Are they spirits or has body like humans?
Are there female angels?
Can we pray to them?

If possible please answer those questions through scriptural basis. You could also quote the Church Fathers and the Church Magisterium. Thank you.

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[puzzleannie]

Do angels have wings?
Are they spirits or has body like humans?
Are there female angels?

angels are pure spirits and do not have bodies so they do not have any attributes of either human or animal bodies, including secondary sex characteristics, wings etc.

angels are capable of assuming human form, or any form they choose, when exercising their office of messenger from God (angel means messenger and is actually a job description).
please search under the spirituality forum on angels and find a wealth of info you will enjoy.

 

[parvenu74]

What does the Holy Bible say about the angels of God?
What is an Angel?
Is there a hierarchy of angels?

This will answer most of your question:
newadvent.org/cathen/01476d.htm

Do angels have wings?
Do they sing?
Are they spirits or has body like humans?
Are there female angels?
Can we pray to them?

Angels are pure spirits, meaning they have no bodies. Not having any material parts they don’t have wings or gender. In fact, any image you form of an angel in your mind is automatically wrong because pure spirits have no material parts.

The last question is a good one: the Angels of God (1) enjoy the beatific vision, and (2) can hear and answer and intercede with God on our behalf (like human Saints, but more “powerful” with a couple notable exceptions like Our Blessed Mother and Saint Joseph). Moreover, we all have an Angel assigned to us from conception until death whose sole job is to assist us both spiritually and otherwise, and has particularly powerful intercessory ability before the throne of God on our behalf. Many, many human Saints had and fostered great devotion to their guardian Angles… and it’s always a good thing to imitate the Saints.

 

[parvenu74]

angels are capable of assuming human form, or any form they choose…

Not quite. Angels, while having no material parts, have tremendous power over matter. It’s a trivial matter for an angel to “grab a bunch of matter” and form it into something that even the most atheistic scientist would swear is a real human being, but in fact is more accurately referred to as “angelic claymation” (click here if you’re not familiar with the term “claymation”). So it’s more precise and accurate to say that angels occasionally manifest themselves in a manner that makes us think they have taken on a human or animal form, but it’s just one of the expressions of their power over matter done while carrying out their job of protecting and guiding us.

 

[Damian1975]

The truth is we really dont know.
It does imply wings in scripure and speaks of angels being beutiful.
in the afterlife we will have resurrected bodies like Christ does in resurrection.

There are different orders of angels as apply of scripture.
Hope this helps,
Damian

 

[Malcolm_McLean]

What does the Holy Bible say about the angels of God?

Remarkably little. There are a few descriptions of cherubim in the Old Testament, and a couple of angels appear in the gospels.

What is an Angel?

Strictly a “messenger”. Really however we mean non-human beings.

Is there a hierarchy of angels?

One is described in Revelation. However it probably mainly fantasy. There appear to be archangels, or sepaphim, plus probaly another sort who are not cherubim.

Do angels have wings?

Cherubim do, but not all angels are cherubom.

How many archangels do we have?

Three whose names we know, Michael, Gabriel and Raphael.

Do they sing?

Cherubim do.

Are they spirits or has body like humans?

They are spirits but not ghosts. Their bodies are massive, that is to say, affected by gravity.

Are there female angels?

No. All known angels are male.

Can we pray to them?

Yes, and with the exception of the bad angels we also may.

 

[bpbasilphx]

<<angels are pure spirits and do not have bodies so they do not have any attributes of either human or animal bodies, including secondary sex characteristics, wings etc.>>

According to Isaiah 6, the Seraphim have wings.

 

[Damian1975]

If we look at scripture there are some versus that we might refer to as wings, but maybe even spritual wings.

I dont believe angels are either male or female.
lets look at scripture firstly

Psalm 91:4 4 He will cover you with his pinions,
and under his wings you will find refuge;
his faithfulness is a shield and buckler.
Isaiah chapter 6

1. In the year that King Uzziah died, I saw the Lord seated on a throne, high and exalted, and the train of his robe filled the temple.
2. Above him were seraphs, each with six wings: With two wings they covered their faces, with two they covered their feet, and with two they were flying.

 

[puzzleannie]

this is a poetic description of the seraphim, describing in poetic imagery the nature of the angels, just as the anthropomorphic image of the Lord seated on a throne is a poetic image. Neither is a literal description of a physical reality.