Do angels wear bras? My neighbours' daughter (age 6 going on 60) wants to know.?

Question

She is quite serious and determined to get an answer.

She asked the priest in church this morning. He is getting on a bit and was rather startled.

I'm going to tell her that only the lady angels wear them.

I don't know where the idea came from. She is full of weird questions and a joy to talk with as she has such a different view on like. Her parents are wonderful people but she has them beside themselves with her questions!

Answer 1

Only the female ones, they use them to hold on their wings. I have a grand daughter of the same type as your neighbour's daughter. Mine is 4 going on 60. drives everyone nuts with weird questions.

Answer 2

Lemme get this straight: do angels wear bras? And there's a lil' 6 year old gal going on 60?! Keep her away from those creepzoid child molesters!
Next. To the question and B.S. answer. I have never seen in any painting of an angel wearing a bra. Reason is, they're shown in such a way that you cannot really tell their sex.
But for the sake of the lil' gal, tell her yes. You can figure the reason why.

(6 going on 60...good grief!)

Answer 3

Interesting question…

It’s patently false to assert that angels can’t wear bras because they are non-corporeal beings and you at least need a body to wear a bra. Some folk, who should know better, just don’t know their Bible. In the Hebrew Bible, angels often appear in the shape of humans of extraordinary beauty, and often are not immediately recognised as angels (Genesis 18:2, Genesis 19:5; Judges 6:17, Judges 8:6; 2 Samuel 29:9) Some verses in the Apocrypha/Deuterocanon depict angels wearing blue or red robes.

Though spiritual beings, angels can assume human form; this is the earliest conception. Gradually, and especially in post-Biblical times, angels came to be ‘bodied forth’ in a form corresponding to the nature of the mission to be fulfilled; generally, however, the human form. Angels bear drawn swords or other destroying weapons in their hands (one carries an ink-horn by his side) and ride on horses (Numbers 22:23, Joshua 5:13, Ezekiel 9:2, Zecheriah 1:8 et seq.). There is no reason whatsoever to suppose that angels are constitionally incapable of wearing bras. Whether they ever need to is another matter.

It is worth noting that angels are always represented as carrying items that are contemporary to the time in which they visit. Perhaps angels are bound by the technology of the age, or perhaps the items they carry have symbolic significance. In the Book of Daniel, reference is made to an angel ‘clothed in linen, whose loins were girded with fine gold of Uphaz: his body also was like the beryl, and his face as the appearance of lightning, and his eyes as lamps of fire, and his arms and his feet like in color to polished brass, and the voice of his words like the voice of a multitude’ (Daniel 10:5-6). So, if angels do on occasion wear bras – if, for example, they are ‘bodied forth’ in the form of woman in need of breast support – they could not have done so before the 1890s, for the simple reason that the technology was not then available, bras not having been invented. Presumably, such angels used corsets.

Some folks object that angels can’t wear bras because of their wings, which would just get in the way. But there is no Scriptural basis for the popular belief that angels have wings: winged angels didn’t appear until Constantine’s time, when they were modelled after images of ‘Winged Victory’ of Imperial iconography. They simultaneously acquired halos from the Empire too.

So angels might well wear bras, depending on how and when they are ‘bodied forth’. You just never know how an angel will manifest itself.

Answer 4

Angels are spirits and therefore not male or female, but "other" so I would say no, they don't wear bras. Besides they're perfect so I suppose you wouldn't need a bra even if you had what goes into it...it wouldn't sag. (Not sure how far you want to go explaining the use of a bra to a 6 yr old, but good luck!)

Answer 5

The female angels that walk amongst us on earth wear them, I guess you could always tell her yes they do its so they can keep every ones spirit "uplifted", or that angel wings keep everything in place so its not necessary for bras to be worn by them, are kids so cute with the things they ask.

Answer 6

I venture to say NO.

Angels are spiritual beings that can take on a human like form when the need arises. They can walk through walls and appear in a room that is totally closed up with locked doors. One appeared to Paul when he was in prison. They can physically grab a human as in the story of Lot where they pulled him indoors. They can "fly" which I understand to mean levitate in defiance of gravity. They can travel through space between earth and wherever they presently reside with God. I am certain they have no need for clothing but wear it when appearing to humans so as not to offend them or to blend in when they do not wish to be detected.

Answer 7

When your neighbor's daughter asks such personal questions, it's in her best interest to refer her to her own parents. Remember, you're discussing religion as well as private garments with her. Do you want that responsibility?

Answer 8

I think angels probably wear them if they want to, some bras are pretty, but if there in heaven maybe no one needs bras.

Answer 9

that angels have female caricteristics or are cute little children with wings is man invented idea... in the bible they do apear as male...but that could well be the influence of man in the perception of the time and in the translation over time...i all liklyhood they are asexual

Answer 10

I not sure if we wear Clothes in Heaven, I doubt it....but Maybe, But I do know that there is nor male nor Female in Heaven...I think We might all wear really white robes.so its possible they Wear Bra's under the robes....I don't Know, I haven't been to heaven yet,myself, sorry ...??