What is the difference between an angel and a lesser deity?
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B"H\nFrom what I've learned of the Jewish concept of angles, they do not have free will.  They work like a vacuume cleaner or a toaster.  They have a job; they do it.\n\nThey also aren't considered to have any flexibility when it comes to performing anything outside of their given task.\n\nFor example, 3 angles came to Avraham: 1 to heal him from his circumcision, 1 to destroy Soddom, and 1 to tell him about the birth of Yitzchak (the angel sent to destroy Soddom did not have the ability to talk to Avraham about Yitzchak any more than a toaster can suck the dirt out of your carpet).\n\nFinally, minor deities are subject to worship, while angels are not to be worshipped at all; and demig-ds are above mankind while angels fall below mankind in status.\n\nAs for "Why does GD need angels?" He doesn't, but SOME method had to be chosen, and that's what He chose.  I would guess that it has to do with modesty/privacy.  According to what I've learned in my studies of Judaism, GD is said to keep all the commandments, and in fact, some of the Jewish commandments (hospitality for example) are derived from the commandment to "walk in the way of GD".  So, just as we are to be modest, GD is modest.  Gd obviously can't wear clothing, so modesty as it relates to Gd is in executing miracles through nature (etc.).
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Angels Unawares ... a term used to describe people who are acceptionally giving and kind and always seem to show up exactly where they are needed most. \n\nAngels are a totally separate species from humans, however, we humans incarnate and reincarnate from spirit form to physical form all the time.  Who's to say that angels do not occasionally do the same in order that they might help us along in our lives?  \n\nI am willing to accept that such a thing may be possible.  God may have created special people who's sole purpose in life is to alway be in the right place at the right time to help another.  Then again, any person who happens to be in the right place at the right time to help another could be called an Angel unawares.  Even you may have been called such by someone you may have helped but do not remember.  You, yourself may be an Angel unawares.
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There are 0 gods.\n\nThe difference between your god and mine is that I don't have one, whereas, you also don't have one, but possibly believe that you do.
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Gods are spawned as a product of their worshippers' collective imaginations and minds. If you believe in a god, he is, if noone does, a god isn't.\nThe true power lies with the people, who can bend reality if they believe in themselves and  realise this possibility. As they can't accept the fact of the power of the human mind, they invent gods to account for the miracles they cause themselves
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Yes there are angels, they are all through the Bible and tho we may not always see or hear them they are around. Hebrews 13:2, Be not forgetful to entertain strangers;  for whereby some have entertained angels unawares. Gen. 48:16 Psalms 8:5 We are made a little lower than the angels. Angels freed Acts 5:17 Acts 12:1-17 Acts16:22-35.  The Bible calls satan a dragon/serpent Genesis 3:1-24 And an Angel was placed in the garden. Also Revelations 20:2. And the Bible tells us people were sometimes demon possessed. Mathew 8:28-34, Mat 4:24 &12:22. You will find it all there if you have the courage to read the Bible.
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What's the differance? They all point to the same God..
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that is a prime example of why the two have different gods. in christianity even, the Jews are Gods chosen ppl. allah is a totally different god with a different chosen ppl being muslims
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Angels are the ones who unsolicitedly comfort and give you peace. Sometimes, you don't need to look around far because they are the ones who mostly stand near you.
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Eros was not a got actually he was lower level god\nhe was the son of Aphrodite/Venus and Mars/Ares
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They are altogether different. Religion is basically a group of people following certain dogma/rituals told by a book or a prophet.\n\nSpirituality is our inner progress irrespective of our religion. A spiritual person is more concerned about the philosophy of god and creation, without caring for the mythological crap.\n\nReligious people may be fanatic, stubborn and idiots, whereas spiritual person more lives in harmony with his fellowmen, in more harmony with God and His creation.
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deities are like gods
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I believe that the balance goes a step further.  God/Goddess.  Because evil and good are relative, I don't think that the evil is not divine.  Its all part of the Divine.  Make up your own mind, but I think you're on to something.
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just a slight correction Judaism dose not believe in in a little Devil with red horns or a fallen angel. For us evil is the internal desire with in us to basically be lazy and not strive to be close to G-d by doing his commandments. Satan is basically the angle of death and like all other angles is a servant of G-d and has no free will on his own.
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Angels do exist. They are spirit beings who were created by God. \n\nThey exist as part of the beauty of God's creation.\n\nAn angel knows if they are an angel.\n\nThe Bible gives us a good bit of information regarding angels.\n\nCordially,\nJohn
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Exactly, ! worship the creator , not the creation.... It follows by logical necessity that if God is one, and if He is eternal, Then He does not beget , Nor is he begotten. Because if He beget, then He will have a child then the child will have to be God-like. So there will then be two Gods. Since there is only one, you cannot have two.  OR If he was begotten, that means he would have father. Then the father will be older than him, wiser than him, more eternal than him. and you cannot have one who is more eternal than ETERNAL.
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Archangel, an angel, or heavenly being, of higher rank than angels. In Jewish and Christian literature, the four best known are Michael, Gabriel, Raphael, and Uriel. In Islam, it is believed that four archangels guard the throne of Allah. According to Christian tradition, archangels belong to the eighth of nine choirs of angels. Arranged according to their importance, in descending order, these choirs are seraphim, cherubim, thrones, dominations, virtues, powers, principalities, archangels, and angels.\n\n\nThere ya go, happy now?
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I will try to explain to you…\n\nFirst of all… the devil is a spirit creature… and is not thrice in structure as a human being is.  A human being is soul, body, and spirit.  Therefore saying “the devil in the flesh” is not a good way to describe such.\n\nFallen celestials are no longer ‘perfect beings’ because fallen angels gained a ‘fallen nature’ after falling from grace.  Being a spirit… a fallen angel’s form is nothing like that of a human being or an animal’s form, etc.\n\nSpirits are physically around… but their nature as spirits is extremely different from anything that the human being normally sees around.  People just try to get around this difficultly by saying that they are ‘spiritual’.  So, basically to the human being in the common mindset… celestial beings are very alien to us.  They are so unearthly and have such unfamiliar forms, that… to see one physically… as one would see another human… it can strike fear into an individual.  Nevertheless… no one should fear a mere creature.\n\nIt is hard to describe unearthly things in language that can be well understood.  Basically… seeing a fallen angel ‘can’ be just like seeing George W Bush.  You can see Bush, hear him, or even touch him… because he is actually real.  Actually seeing a fallen angel is not something in the mind.  Just as Bush is real… so are fallen angels.\n\nFallen angels can be:  seen, heard (as you would hear another human being), smelt, touched, and sensed.\n\nThe below information is copied from a website:  (it is a description of Satan in one of his two forms… being a spirit he shifts).\n_____________________________________________\nILLUSTRATION OR ANALYSIS OF FORM\nDESIGNED TO CLARIFY MISUNDERSTANDINGS\n\nDifferences from the human form\n\nHeylel’s form includes different textures that are of fallen angelic nature, wings \nthat withdraw or retract into his back, a tail with spade tip, another joint (extra part \nto the leg) from the shin, then ankles and cloven hooves.  Although, commonly \ndepicted as having claws or horns, he has neither in his humanoid form.  Heylel \nalso has a nictitating membrane (that can move across the eye) as a lizard or a cat.\n\nHeight and Weight\n\nIn Heylel’s humanoid form, his height is 5’6”.  The angelic being’s standard \nweight changes because they are spirit beings.\n\nSkin, leather and fur colorization, etc\n\nHeylel’s skin colorization is a shiny, light white.  The creature’s fur fades from \nblond – to a dark (copper/reddish) brown – being variegated in a usually unkempt \nmatter.  Heylel’s fur tends to shed as flying dust, no doubt showing that he is \ncursed.  Hair or fur in this type of condition indicates an unhealthy state.  He has \nfur from his waist down, in length, much like a long-haired cat.  Heylel’s wings \nand his tail have a leather-like skin, not scales, the leather shades from red to a \ndarker red.  The bones of his wings are covered in a black leather skin.  The \ncreature’s cloven hooves are much like the natural colorization of a cow’s hoof.\n\nFacial features\n\nHeylel has blond spiky hair.  He has a beard (the imperial beard), and very light \nblue eyes – that seem to reflect.  The creature has a wound (or scar) on the top-\nright side of his head.  At times, the wound has a yellowish substance that exudes \nand becomes incrusted on his head.  When yellowish the creature smells rotten.  \nHe also has a scar above the right eye.\n\nWings\n\nHeylel’s wings look strange.  They appear to be, as if they were bat wings.  \nHowever, the creature most likely had feathered wings in the beginning.   They are \nmade of a hallowed bone structure with a thin layer of tightly stretched leather-like \nskin other the bones.  You could see shades of light though the stretched skin.\n\nOther features\n\nHeylel has a tumor on the outer side of his right shin.\n_____________________________________________\n(Article ends he