Which do you like better and why!?!
2006-06-05 12:32:00 · 7 answers · asked by columpro25 2 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
I'm going to have to go with Angels. I have read a few books on Angels and I guess they are more excepted as being real while fairies are in the same catergory as leprachuans. OK. I am going to tell you the truth. I believe in it all. Faeries, leprachuans, hollow earth. All of it.
Love & Light
Sharon
2006-06-05 12:44:46 · answer #1 · answered by skippingsunday 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Ones I can find with my protractor are best!
I like fairies more, they are cuter and don't seem to be so malevolent or grimly associated with death as some angels are purported to be. Both angels & fairies are fictional.
2006-06-05 13:08:36 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
"Angles" is a common typo :)
Here is something by a famous bishop on angels.
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Angelic Hierarchies
"There are, in the angelic order alone, a progress and a continuity of perfection which greatly exceed those which are manifested in the material universe. The details of this gradual progress from the species of angel which stands next to the man, and the species of angel which is nearest to God, are beyond the privilege of our earthly knowledge. Revelation, however, has given us a peep into this mysterious and wonderful hierarchy of orders, and the Angelic Doctor, working on these data, has thrown much light on the application of our principle. There are three hierarchies of angels, and three choirs in each hierarchy, making a total of nine choirs. [from highest to lowest they are seraphim, cherubim, thrones ... dominions, virtues, powers, ... principalities, archangels, angels]. Each choir, from the lowest, that of guardian angels, to the highest, the Seraphim has a continuity, one with another, by reason of the intellectual illumination which they receive. Each angel transmits to the angel immediately inferior the knowledge which it receives from above. It does not transmit this illumination in its fullness and perfection, but according to the capacity of the lower intelligence, just as a learned scientist does not transmit principles of science to his intellectual inferiors without examples. This transmission of illumination from the higher to the lower choirs, according to their intelligence, is the very reason of the continuity of the nine choirs, and of the ordination by which the highest perfection of one choir is linked with the lowest perfection of the superior choir.
No creature, however perfect, by the mere fact of its inherent imperfection can fill the gap between itself and God. This does not forbid a more perfect participation of the divine perfections by one creature rather than another. The highest order of intellectual creatures is the Seraphim, who, because of their more perfect knowledge of God, have a more perfect love of Him. Their very name signifies flame and light and love. This is their highest perfection.
There is not a continuity between creatures and God in the possession of being, in the pantheistic sense [that is, creatures or created beings are not parts of God], but there is a continuity of order and an analogical possession of being [i.e. creatures are like God in some ways but unlike Him in other ways, and the higher the creature the more likeness there is to God]. The universe is not a juxtaposition of indifferently related genus and species, as ill-advised opponents of the common-sense philosophy would have us believe. It is a harmonious crescendo of perfections from the lowest minerals up to God - a hymn to the creator."
From "God and Intelligence in Modern Philosophy" by Fulton Sheen p 94.
*** According to St. Thomas Aquinas, each angel is a distinct species in itself.
Each one differs from each other one as a rose differs from a sunset, and as a sunset differs from an opossum.
However, that is only an analogy. Angelic species are radically different from anything we can understand on this earth.
They are at once more exotic and more natural than anything in the physical universe - JM.
2006-06-05 13:04:29 · answer #3 · answered by Catholic Philosopher 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Fairies...as long as it's not my godmother!
2006-06-05 15:26:09 · answer #4 · answered by UNCLE PumpKinHead 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You mean 'angels', right? Hehe...
I wonder if that falls under SEMANTICS. It's kinda like asking your preference between 'God' and 'Allah' and 'Yahweh' maybe??
2006-06-05 12:49:38 · answer #5 · answered by Arf Bee 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Right angles..........90 degree ones.......
2006-06-05 12:37:56 · answer #6 · answered by Uwanna Kissimmi 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
hehehe I like both! Both sound cute.
2006-06-05 12:38:04 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋