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== Do the people whom we love become our angels when they die? == | == Do the people whom we love become our angels when they die? == | ||
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What is an angel?
What does the word "angel" mean?
Do angels have free will?
Do angels live in time?
When were angels created?
Can an angel repent of sin and be forgiven?
Can angels move physical things?
Can angels work miracles?
Can angels appear on earth?
Do angels have wings and halos?
How do angels move from one place to another?
How do angels know things?
Do all Catholics have to believe that angels exist?
How many angels can dance on the head of a pin?
Do angels sing?
Do angels play musical instruments?
What are the nine choirs of angels?
- First hierarchy
- Seraphim
- Cherubim
- Thrones
- Second hierarchy
- Dominions
- Virtues
- Powers
- Third hierarchy
- Principalities
- Archangels
- St. Michael: "Who is like God?"
- St. Gabriel: "Strength of God"
- St. Raphael: "God heals"
- Angels
Why are Michael, Gabriel, and Raphael called "saints"?
Was there really a war among the angels?
"And there was war in heaven. Michael and his angels fought against the dragon, and the dragon and his angels fought back" (Rev 12:7).
How do angels fight a war?
"but the prince of the kingdom of Persia stood in my way for twenty-one days, until finally Michael, one of the chief princes, came to help me" (Daniel 10:13).
"Yet the archangel Michael, when he argued with the devil in a dispute over the body of Moses, did not venture to pronounce a reviling judgment upon him but said, 'May the Lord rebuke you!'" (Jude 1:9).
Why does God let devils exist?
Why doesn't He lock them up once and for all and keep them all away from us?
Was the serpent an angel?
Genesis 3:1 says, "Now the snake was the most cunning of all the wild animals that the LORD God had made." Why do so many people say that this was the devil or Satan when the Scripture plainly reports that the serpent was an animal?