What have the 'myriads of angels' ever done for humanity?

by yadda yadda 2 25 Replies latest watchtower beliefs

  • yadda yadda 2
    yadda yadda 2

    Think about it, myriads upon myriads of do-nothing, never lift a finger angels floating around, ignoring all the untold pain and suffering on this planet for thousands of years.

    What have all these millions of angels ever done for anyone? Occasional random materialisations in ancient Israelite times?

    What will they ever do in the future, even during and after the millennial reign? Nothing according to scripture.

    If anything, angels are to blame for the corruption of the earth in Noah's time and subsequent drowning of all of humanity.

    What a completely pointless concept are 'angels'.

  • Witness My Fury
    Witness My Fury

    They help fundies find their keys, win at sports and feel smug about the world.

  • Seraphim23
    Seraphim23

    I don’t know about myriads of angels as such, but mystery messengers may be something worth thinking about at least for some. After all the word angel only means messenger. When one hears of the proverbial story of a mother waking up in the middle of the night after dreaming some prescient dream of her son who is distant from her dying, or injured in some specific way and turns out to be so, it raises certain questions that cannot always be dismissed easily as brain chemistry and coincidence, using the word coincidence that is in its conventional way as something that simply coincides that seems significant but explicable in terms of processes that are understood.

    Many people report such inexplicable contact or messages, often when a loved family member dies, sometimes without knowing they were ill. Other times in can be in times of danger. To be fair it is not known if so called angels are responsible from the biblical identification such entities are supposed to have. Certainly the meaning of angels being messengers seems to be at odds with the need for myriads of the things if a message is the purpose of such entities. One would seem to be sufficient particularly as time and space don’t seem to be barriers when such phenomena are looked at closely.

    In many ways this topic mirrors the debate over the existence of God, which gets rejected on the basis of a rather specific literal interpretation of the bible, even though it is possible to talk about the existence of God without any reference to the bible or any holy book on the basis of other reasons that merit at the very least considered debate.

    It is quite possible that such spiritual phenomena has been going on with humanity well before writing was ever invented, in which case the bible only reflects a human interpretation of such things that have been going on since timely memorial. Only those who have experienced such things with sufficient force as to be convinced by them that something radical is going will want comment in the same spirit as I have done, but most here will dismiss the reality of such things which is an end to the debate. For those to whom it isn’t, you’re not alone.

  • KateWild
    KateWild

    Occasional random materialisations in ancient Israelite times?-yadda

    These likely a false statements in the Bible, written by a human with an ulteria motive. I doubt you will disagree with me, but if you do please provide some historical evidence to support this. I am open to the possibility. Kate xx

  • Phizzy
    Phizzy

    Yea, we can't even adapt the "What have the Romans done for us ?" sketch from "Life of Brian" for this quesation can we ?

    At least the Romans were real, not imaginary like Angels.

  • adamah
    adamah

    Seraphim said-

    I don’t know about myriads of angels as such, but mystery messengers may be something worth thinking about at least for some. After all the word angel only means messenger.

    Yes, I can see why Heaven might need actual entities to carry messages from God, esp in this day and age of wireless communications, where almost every individual on Earth carries a cell phone!

    Even in the 1850's, the concept of Pony Express (and before use of telegraphs became prevalent) would sort of justify the concept of the existence of such messengers, but in 2013? SERIOUSLY?

    Think of the bandwidth requirements needed in Heaven to monitor the thoughts and prayers of 7 BILLION PEOPLE on Earth (NOT to mention the capacity required for inter-angelic communications, etc). Heaven must be wired for T1...

  • Seraphim23
    Seraphim23

    An amusing comment adamah.

  • Stand for Pure Worship
    Stand for Pure Worship

    The more pressing question to consider is, what are the myriads of angels getting ready to do?

  • Phizzy
    Phizzy

    Dunno, but I bet Superman and Harry Potter have plans.

  • Theredeemer
    Theredeemer

    What are they getting ready to do and when? ready as in 5 minutes or as in you dont know but it is soon? Usually when I use the word "ready" it means in the next five minutes or in the present like"Im ready to leave" or " Im ready to go to lunch". So if this "ready" is way in the future it is usually accompanied by a specific amount of time like "ill be ready in an hour", therefore; would you like to clarify your "ready" SFPW?

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