Originally posted by OCEANOS:
[b]Merry Meet Neon Tetra,
According to Christian belief, everyone has two guardian
angels.
According to the Jewish faith, each child has 11,000 guardian
angels at birth.
The angel is a heavenly being, superior to humans, who serves as an
attendant and messenger of God, or a guardian for someone on
Earth.
"See, I am sending an angel before you, to guard you on the way and
bring you to the place I have prepared. Be attentive to him and
heed his voice." - Exodus 24.20
According to Gospel of Barnabas
(Chapter 54)
'When these signs be passed, there shall be darkness over the world
forty years, God alone being alive, to whom be honour and glory for
ever. When the forty years be passed, God shall give life to his
messenger, who shall rise again like the sun, but resplendent as a
thouand suns. He shall sit, and shall not speak, for he shall be as
it were beside himself. God shall raise again the four angels
favoured of God, who shall seek the messenger of God, and, having
found him, shall station themselves on the four sides of the place
to keep watch upon him. Next shall God give life to all the angels,
who shall come like bees circling round the messenger of God. Next
shall God give life to all his prophets, who, following Adam, shall
go every one to kiss the hand of the messenger of God, committing
themselves to his protection. Next shall God give life to all the
elect, who shall cry out: "O Mohammed, be mindful of us!" At whose
cries pity shall awake in the messenger of God, and he shall
consider what he ought to do, fearing for their salvation. Next
shall God give life to every created thing, and they shall return
to their former existence, but every one shall besides possess the
power of speech. Next shall God give life to all the reprobates, at
whose resurrection, by reason of their hideousness, all the
creatures of God shall be afraid, and shall cry: "Let not thy mercy
forsake us, O Lord our God." After this shall God cause Satan to be
raised up, at whose aspect every creature shall be as dead, for
fear of the horrid form of his appearance. May it please God,' said
Jesus, 'that I behold not that monster on that day. The messenger
of God alone shall not be affrighted by such shapes because he
shall fear God only.
'Then the angel, at the sound of whose trumpet all shall be raised,
shall sound his trumpet again, saying: "Come to the judgment, O
creatures, for your Creator willeth to judge you." Then shall
appear in the midst of heaven over the valley of Jehoshaphat a
glittering throne, over which shall come a white cloud, whereupon
the angels shall cry out: "Blessed be thou our God, who hast
created us, and saved us from the fall of Satan." Then the
messenger of God shall fear, for that he shall perceive that none
hath loved God as he should. For he who would get in change a piece
of gold must have sixty mites; wherefore, if he have but one mite
he cannot change it. But if the messenger of God shall fear, what
shall the ungodly do who are full of wickedness?'
According to Gospel of Barnabas (Chapter 55)
'The messenger of God shall go to collect all the prophets, to whom
he shall speak, praying them to go with him to pray God for the
faithful. And every one shall excuse himself for fear; nor, as God
liveth, would I go there, knowing what I know. Then God, seeing
this, shall remind his messenger how he created all things for love
of him, and so his fear shall leave him, and he shall go nigh unto
the throne with love and reverence, while the angels sing: "Blessed
be thy holy name, O God, our God."
'And when he hath drawn nigh unto the throne, God shall open [his
mind] unto his messenger, even as a friend unto a friend when for a
long while they have not met. The first to speak shall be the
messenger of God, who shall say: "I adore and love thee, O my God,
and with all my heart and soul I give thee thanks for that thou
didst vouchsafe to create me to be thy servant, and madest all for
love of me, so that I might love thee for all things and in all
things and above all things; therefore let all thy creatures praise
thee, O my God." Then all things created by God shall say: "We give
thee thanks, O Lord, and bless thy holy name." Verily I say unto
you, the demons and reprobates with Satan shall then weep so that
more water shall flow from the eyes of one of them than is in the
river of Jordan. Yet shall they not see God.
'And God shall speak unto his messenger, saying: "Thou art welcome,
O my faithful servant; therefore ask what thou wilt, for thou shalt
obtain all." The messenger of God shall answer, "O Lord, I remember
that when thou didst create me, thou saidst that thou hadst willed
to make for love of me the world and paradise, and angels and men,
that they might glorify thee by me thy servant. Therefore, Lord
God, merciful and just. I pray thee that thou recollect thy promise
made unto thy servant."
'And God shall make answer even as a friend who jesteth with a
friend, and shall say: "Hast thou witnesses of this, my friend
Mohammed?" And with reverence he shall say: "Yes, Lord." Then God
shall answer: "Go, call them, O Gabriel." The angel Gabriel shall
come to the messenger of God, and shall say: "Lord, who are thy
witnesses?" The messenger of God shall answer: "They are Adam,
Abraham, Ishmael, Moses, David, and Jesus son of Mary."
'Then shall the angel depart, and he shall call the aforesaid
witnesses, who with fear shall go thither. And when they are
present God shall say unto them: "Remember ye that which my
messenger affirmeth?" They shall reply: "What thing, O Lord?" God
shall say: "That I have made all things for love of him, so that
all things might praise me by him." Then every one of them shall
answer: "There are with us three witnesses better than we are, O
Lord." And God shall reply: "Who are these three witnesses?" Then
Moses shall say "The book that thou gavest to me is the first"; and
David shall say: ''The book that thou ga vest to me is the second";
and he who speaketh to you shall say: "Lord, the whole world,
deceived by Satan, said that I was thy son and thy fellow, but the
book that thou gavest me said truly that I am thy servant; and that
book confesseth that which thy messenger affirmeth." Then shall the
messenger of God speak, and shall say: "Thus saith the book that
thou gavest me, O Lord." And when the messenger of God hath said
this, God shall speak, saying: "All that I have now done, I have
done in order that every one should know how much I love thee." And
when he hath thus spoken, God shall give unto his messenger a book,
in which are written all the names of the elect of God. Wherefore
every creature shall do reverence to God, saying: ''To thee alone,
O God, be glory and honour, because thou hast given us to thy
messenger."
The LORD Almighty declares, `I will
send it out, and it will enter the house of the thief and the house
of him who swears falsely by my name. It will remain in his house
and destroy it, both its timbers and its stones.'" Then the angel
who was speaking to me came forward and said to me, "Look up and
see what this is that is appearing." I asked, "What is it?" He
replied, "It is a measuring basket. " And he added, "This is the
iniquity of the people throughout the land."
Zechariah 5:4-6
This Excerpt clearly proved the Existence of Angelic Wings..
Blessed Be,
Oceanos[/b]
There are only 4 gospels in the New Testament of the Bible.
Namely Matthew, Mark, Luke and John. So the fact you quote from the
'gospel' of barnabas does not back the teachings in anyway.
And, if i were to tell you the Bible stated clearly that on
Judgement Day believers of Christ will judge angels will that make
you think angels are superior to us human beings? True..they have
powers and heavenly, but we do not exalt them as much as we must
exalt God Himself. There previous verse i gave shows that angels
like us are all servants of God.
Idolatry is not merely the worship, veneration of statues...to
exalt and devote to anything in the place of God is idolatry in its
plainest form.
Whatever I say is from the Bible, we do not want to discuss such
using human logic and traditions. myths and legends are not God's
word and have absolutely no authority.
