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WilT
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I would have loved just being an Angel not worrying whether or not I’ll be sinning soon. It sure would be a relief off my back. Angels get to see the Glory of God which would be a wonderful thing.
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USMC_Convert
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Why didn’t God make you a rock to be stepped on, never to look up to the sky?
Try reading a story: Google “Traveling Angels” it should come up
Try reading a story: Google “Traveling Angels” it should come up
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WilT
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lol rocks don’t fly so it wouldn’t be fun!:dts:
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on_the_hill
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I think the teaching is that angels are an entirely separate type of being.
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Patty23
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Remember angles too had a struggle and theirs was all or nothing, thus the devil.
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WilT
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True, that is why I put to be a sinless angel.
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Joe_5859
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Consider that the angels, too, have reason to envy you who have the opportunity to receive the Body and Blood, Soul and Divinity of our Lord, Jesus Christ in the Sacrament of the Eucharist.
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EIF5A
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Why is the Eucharist sometimes called Food of angels? Or was it Bread of angels? Now I’m not sure…
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raikou
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“O happy fault, O necessary sin of Adam, which gained for us so great a Redeemer!” - Easter Vigil Liturgy
“For God has deemed it better to bring good out of evil than not to permit evil at all.” — St. Augustine
That greater good is that God was able to manifest the depths of his love by becoming man in order to redeem us. In his goodness, he gave us free will. Through our own fault, we have sinned. Yet, in God’s greater goodness, he redeemed us still.
They say angels have superior powers and are more perfect than humans in many ways but the one thing that they are “jealous” of is that God chose to become one of us.
“For God has deemed it better to bring good out of evil than not to permit evil at all.” — St. Augustine
That greater good is that God was able to manifest the depths of his love by becoming man in order to redeem us. In his goodness, he gave us free will. Through our own fault, we have sinned. Yet, in God’s greater goodness, he redeemed us still.
They say angels have superior powers and are more perfect than humans in many ways but the one thing that they are “jealous” of is that God chose to become one of us.
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Razanir
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I hate to be obtuse, but that’s not exactly right. It was angels that struggled like that, not angles. Although said war in Heaven aside, it’d still be cool to be a cute angel.
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Memaw
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What if you would have been one that rebelled against God, No chance of repentance !!??? God Bless, Memaw
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WilT
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If I was to be a Sinless Angel then I would be with God, Jesus, and the Holy Spirit. I would have all and need nothing.
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WilT
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As a Sinless Angel you wouldn’t need the Sacrament of Reconciliation.
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Tantum_ergo
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Well, that’s what you’ll get if you wind up in a state of grace when you die.
Further, in order to be a sinless angel you would STILL have had to make the choice not to rebel against God.
What difference is that between your life and now, except in the number of chances you get to rebel? (Angels had one. You have millions, If you mess up, you can change your mind. THEY can’t.)
Plus, as a human being you get to be body and soul, not just ‘spirit’. Angels are pure spirits. They don’t have bodies.
And just as a point, God can’t KEEP us sinless angels; we were never angels to begin with!
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Vico
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Free will allows for sin. But without free will there is no love.
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Memaw
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God didn’t “keep” some of the Angles sinless. They kept themselves sinless by following God and not rebelling.,(free will). The others used their free will to rebel. God Bless, MemawAs a Sinless Angel you wouldn’t need the Sacrament of Reconciliation.
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WilT
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Good pointAnd just as a point, God can’t KEEP us sinless angels; we were never angels to begin with!
The question can be better stated like ‘why God created man in the first place’ The closest thing next to God are Angels so if man, let’s say, was never created then we must have been one of His many Angels. I would like to think there was a time we were one of His Angels and were able to fly about and praise God all Infiniti long.
and not do any sinning at all. Wishful thinking, I suppose.
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Joe_5859
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If we were not human beings, we would be nothing. It is not as though we were angels flying through heaven whom God snatched and threw into human bodies. Our souls are created by God at the moment of our conception.Good point
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Vico
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**Hebrews 2:5-9 (NABRE)Good point
** For it was not to angels that he subjected the world to come, of which we are speaking. Instead, someone has testified somewhere:
“What is man that you are mindful of him,
or the son of man that you care for him?
You made him for a little while lower than the angels;
you crowned him with glory and honor,
subjecting all things under his feet.”
In “subjecting” all things [to him], he left nothing not “subject to him.” Yet at present we do not see “all things subject to him,” but we do see Jesus “crowned with glory and honor” because he suffered death, he who “for a little while” was made “lower than the angels,” that by the grace of God he might taste death for everyone.or the son of man that you care for him?
You made him for a little while lower than the angels;
you crowned him with glory and honor,
subjecting all things under his feet.”
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