So how many Angels can dance on the head of a pin?
And you think that early Christianity as well as present fundmentalists today are more superior to any other superstition based religion that precede or alligned today with it? Hinduism, Islam or Buddhism? Here's what the greatest theologian of Christianity did with his time, concentrated on the "Science of Angels & Demons" which are found in every other primitive religion exactly .
Thomas Aquinas & his merry host Angels & Demons :
Thomas Aquinas believes that the world is full of angels. There are more angels than the total number of human beings – past, present, and future – and maybe even more angels than there are bits of matter in the universe.
He thinks this is surely the way things are, because why would God make a world full of imperfect material things, without at the same time making far more perfect spiritual things?
What is an angel? Angels just are created minds without bodies. God is a mind without a body, too, but God is the creator, not a creature. Human beings are created minds, but we are minds created to animate within a body. (Souls are supposed to be separately created outside the body and simultaneously infused into the body.)
Hence one of the things that makes angels special is that they fall in between human beings and God. They are wholly immaterial in the way that God is, but yet created in the way that we are. The fact that angels were created – and are not little gods – means that they are finite, or limited, in all their powers. They are not omniscient like God is and they are not all-powerful. Nor are they perfectly good. On the contrary, like human beings, angels are capable of doing either good or bad, and some chose to do bad.
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