Sure or maybe they leave them on a cloud on the way down to be picked up later on their way back to heaven....hope they can remember which cloud they left it on and hopefully they don't get zapped and melted by lightening before they get back. lol!

To moderator and creator of this forum- You see what happens when you dare us to have our own thoughts? LOL

Great stuff!

ROFL...just having a bit of fun. (Hopefully my guardian angel has a sense of humor and is able to laugh about his "detachable" wings which could to up in smoke if lightening torches them...or disentegrated if they get too soggy with rain.)

Indeed it appears that as Ellen White said - angels have the power to "appear in human form".

So the only choice is between angels that do have wings (with the number of wings being one form of differentiation between various types of angels) -- where they have the "ability" to appear in human form as needed.

OR angels that look for all the world like humans -- but have the ability to appear as Angels with wings -

However that second option does not really make sense.

in Christ,

Bob

I think as humans we get biased by our 'too, too solid flesh' (thanx Mr Shakespeare). What if angels are creatures whose physical forms are endlessly mutable, and they adapt their form to their purpose? Humans with wings would be appropriate to the purpose of showing other-worldliness and creating awe in appearances to humans, wings to cover faces and feet for showing reverence, four different faces for showing 'we're not in Kansas any more' and so on. I think the category systems of different kinds of angels (the Scholastics had it down to a fine art) are castles built on sand: fish's taxonomies of land creatures based on what they can see from under water.

Yep, it is amazing what happens when we climb out of the box to start thinking...



(To all - but when we seek to do some out of the box thinking here, please leave those quote boxes at home...)

I too have wondered at times about what a fish might think of his world verses what it must be like out of the water. lol
(Me thinks humans trying to understand God and angels is much like that.) Thanks Bravus.

We envision angels as having flesh because we cannot understand how anything can live without a "material" body. Even the Father has a "body" of some kind according to EGW.

We invision the bible being the accurate trustworthy inspired word of God - so we invision the description of Seraphim and Cherabim as being "accurate" and trustworthy accounts in Ezekiel for example. Just as we invision the description of Christ in Rev 1 as being accurate and trustworthy. Just as we invision the description that God gives of "origins" in Gen 1-2:3 (and the summary of that given in Ex 20:11) as a trustworthy account far superior to the debunked hoaxes and confirmed frauds used to promote atheist darwinist doctrine.

We also invision the Bible account in Genesis 18 of God and 2 angels appearing in the form of 3 men as being a trustworthy account of how they appeared in that form to Abraham -- with no "description" of the men given -- since this is merely an assumed form.


in Christ,

Bob

Actually Bob, we also tend to assume Cherubim and Seraphim are angels. However, the original Biblical languages uses quite different words reflecting the translated difference. The role and function of Cherubim and Seraphim also seem to be quite distinct from the heavenly beings identified in Scripture as angels. The Biblical evidence supports that Cherubim and Seraphim are not angels but other heavenly creatures that attend the throne of God. The Bible does identify them as having wings, as it also describes God as having wings. The point is that no Scripture describes angels as having wings. (See the earlier posts.)

I am still thinking about an angel appearing as a talking banana to Ellen White.