In the Old Testament, angels act more like our superiors ... show how the angels serve Jesus in the same way they serve God.” The angels began their service to Jesus at an event called the ...

In the Old Testament, God may seem preoccupied with justice and ... James Madison wrote, “If men were angels, no government would be necessary.” But men are not angels, and the sword is ...

In fact, given that God’s love is the more abundantly poured out in the New Testament dispensation, the cost of rejecting it is correspondingly higher: If the word spoken through angels [in the Old ...

Hence Boyd recommends that we see Old Testament texts that present God as violent or authoritarian as “literary ... Boyd radicalizes, as it were, Paul’s claim that the law was “ordained by angels” ...

of angel to appear in Scripture is the angel of God who protected the Israelites from danger on their exodus from Egypt. The Old Testament is not explicit on the question of personal guardian ...

But what does the Bible teach? In the Old Testament, Lot makes such a request of two angels, who were sent by God to destroy Sodom and Gomorrah (Gen 19:13): Genesis 19:20 (RSV) “Behold ...

The idea that there are seven archangels comes from non-canonical Apocryphal books written after the Hebrew Bible and before the New Testament ... are: —Angels transform God’s overwhelming ...