Why do angels have wings?

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Are they really needed? Are they functional or decorative?

Do angels bother with flying? Why can't or don't they just pop from place to place? Wouldn't flapping their wings be a slow, cumbersome way to travel?

April

LMFAO Oh, that's so cool to get it to do that. Ahh, such fun I can have. :D
 
April said:
Silly Debbie. No, not Angel, April.

I know, April. :)
Debbie was silly.
Pinklady is a pain.
Glad to see you though! :)
Angel's come from above.
Their wings are necessary
for function and decoration.
The rest is left
up to our imaginations.
They float... they can pop from place
to place. But for our sake's their wings
appear. :)
Red bull gives you wings ;) :D
 
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I cannot believe it is still happening......
Pinkbitch is more like it.


Okay, well, to be blunt and brief Angels or more apropriately, Seraphim don't have wings.

In the middle ages sometime was the first appearant pictoral of a Seraph with wings. Why, I don't know.

In the Victorian era, the little baby angels with wings, called Cherubs, became very popular. The idea took off on a world wide scale, and thus Angels got their permenant wings even though they don't really have wings.

Although the ranking of the angels is as listed here from lowest rank to highest rank... angels, archangels, principalities, powers, virtues, dominions, thrones, cherubim, and seraphim, there is no inclination from the bible that they were winged.

People probably just figured that they had to be, in order to get here from heaven.

They usually appeared cloaked in fire.
 
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Ahhhh Fishy; yes, Angels do have wings.

<-------- See? :D

Angels have wings so we can get from place to place faster. {I mean, there are so many adorable men in the world, ya gotta be fast to find all of them. ;) }

No no no......wings aren't slow and cumbersome! Think of it....long, graceful wings extended; soaring on the breeze.
 
Although the ranking of the angels is as listed here from lowest rank to highest rank... angels, archangels, principalities, powers, virtues, dominions, thrones, cherubim, and seraphim, there is no inclination from the bible that they were winged.

I'd forgotten the order.
Thanks for reminding me starfish. Wasn't ever a gnostic myself but I've nothing against them.

The real point about angels is that they do not have sexual organs, and I'd remind Little Devil with a Halo that the devil is an angel.
 
going from legend and not religious mythology.

angels that have wings, they don't even flap their wings to fly, they more just fload.

the wings are the center of their imortality. they wings must be removed to turn them into human. then they can be killed. eather if it's partialy or fully removed.

as for biblical angels with wings, in paintings the wings make them bigger thene veryone else in the pic and make them stand out, makeing them dominent.
 
Well live and learn. Here I was thinking that there was not air conditioning in heaven and thus the need for wings. It must be hard to sleep in those things.
 
freescorfr said:
The real point about angels is that they do not have sexual organs, and I'd remind Little Devil with a Halo that the devil is an angel.
I am so going to have to pay a trip to MidnightAngel's storm cloud for some personal research into this shocking assertion. How do they reproduce? How do they fight the boredom? Why do they bother with robes? Do they all use the same bathroom? What's their genetic similarity to humans? How do they fly? What's the basis for this scandalous pronouncement?
 
I always thought that they were used to keep themselves and others warm. Silly me.
 
Angels have wings because we invented them in our collective unconscious and thought that wings made a nice accoutrement.
 
LukkyKnight said:

I am so going to have to pay a trip to MidnightAngel's storm cloud for some personal research into this shocking assertion. How do they reproduce? How do they fight the boredom? Why do they bother with robes? Do they all use the same bathroom? What's their genetic similarity to humans? How do they fly? What's the basis for this scandalous pronouncement?

Good luck with the research. They're always bored that's why they turn into devils, who's job it is to get us mortals to sin.

Ginny's an example but pinklady's worse. No doubt an angel will announce the unmasking of pinklady to us.
 
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