2007-07-01 10:07:30 · 17 answers · asked by sasyone 5 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Rosy-cheeked, winged cherubs may be the most common images associated with angels, but these heavenly messengers actually take many forms in world religions. Whether they are Buddhist devas, Muslim malaikah, or Mormon ministering spirits, angels play important roles in many faiths.
Angels are described in the Doctrine and Covenant as being one of the two kinds of bodies in heaven. They are described as "resurrected personages." They are considered by Mormons to be messengers of God and "ministering spirits."
The Buddhist equivalent of angels is devas, or celestial beings. Some schools of Buddhism also refer to dharmapalas or dharma protectors. In Tibetan Buddhism, for instance, devas are sometimes considered to be emanations of bodhisattvas or enlightened beings. Different schools of Buddhism have different important devas, as they are often derived from pre-Buddhist cultures and religions and not from Buddhist philosophy.
Angels in Catholicism are intermediaries between God and humans. In addition to their role as servants and messengers, angels are also attendants to God's throne. Catholic theology outlines a hierarchy of nine choirs of angels divided into three groups: Seraphim, Cherubim and Thrones; Dominations, Virtues and Powers; Principalities, Archangels and Angels.
Angels and archangels are part of the hierarchy of nine bodiless powers in Orthodox tradition. Angels are workers and messengers of God.
While not specifically referred to as angels, Hinduism does have many different types of spirit beings who act in a similar capacity. One example is the minor gods, or devas, literally "shining ones," who inhabit the higher astral plane. Gods, devas, planets like Sani (Saturn), gurus (teachers), and ancestors can all play a protective role for humans. Also present in Hinduism are asuras, evil spirits or demons. They are fallen devas who inhabit the lower astral plane, the mental plane of existence. If asuras do good, they can be reincarnated into devas and do not have to remain eternally in the lower plane. Hinduism also includes apsaras, who are heavenly nymphs, angiris, who preside over sacrifices, and lipika, who regulate karma.
Angels in Islam, or malaikah, play an essential role as messengers and intermediaries from Allah to the world, beginning with the angel Jabrai'il (Gabriel) who revealed the Qur’an, Islam's holy book, to the Prophet Muhammad.
Angels in Judaism, or malachim, are messengers of God who help carry out God's work and plans. For a complete explanation of the role of angels in Judaism, see this column on angels in Jewish tradition.
Angels are messengers and carry out God's will. Some angels are guardian angels. John Calvin viewed angels as protectors and helpers. Angels are recognized as very powerful beings. The gospels are full of examples of the angels intervening with Jesus, as announcers of his birth, ministers to him in the wilderness, and more.
2007-07-01 10:54:58 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Moroni isn't the logo of our faith. Christ is. we don't pontificate in Moroni's call. we don't pray to him. we don't evaluate him our Savior. He substitute right into a prophet and later an angel, no longer something greater. The angel Moroni stands on some temples as a reminder that Christ is returning. He faces the direction Christ will come, and he blows his trumpet the two in welcome and so as that the international will comprehend of Christ's return. because we use Moroni in basic terms in connection with Christ, I infrequently think of which skill Moroni might desire to be the logo of our faith. Nor can we glorify him. utilizing your good judgment, does not this mean that any statue of any man or woman everywhere is being glorified over Christ? of direction that's no longer real. Having a statue of somebody does not immediately equate worship...and by the way, the actuality that different Christian sects do no longer use a similar sort of adorning that we do does not make our options incorrect or beside the point. this is in basic terms a statue. you're making some distance too lots of it. in spite of everything, mutually as the statue of Moroni is somewhat no longer something greater substantial than a symbolic ornament (it relatively is why he's no longer on all of our temples), we don't often use the pass or any statue or portray of Christ pinned to it. we choose for to concentration on the resurrected Savior, no longer the single demise on the pass. we now have not something against the pass and of direction might in no way want to overlook approximately or push aside all that Christ went by on it, yet that's no longer some thing we would choose for to place atop our temples or in our churches.
2016-10-03 08:54:37 · answer #2 · answered by gerking 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
We're not supposed to make things like that of Christ. And John said in Revelation taht there would come an angel spreading the everlasting gospel to the world, and we believe that is Moroni. That's what he's doing up there, bringing the everlasting gospel to the world.
2007-07-01 15:16:22 · answer #3 · answered by mormon_4_jesus 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
If Jesus is our living saviour, why do Christians put symbols of death on their churches?
Crosses are for hanging people on, to kill them. It's like... honoring JFK with a sculpture of the gun that shot him.
It's morbid, if you ask me.
But the Moroni of the LDS is a symbol that God has not forgotten and abandoned the world, as most Christians apparently believe, with their dead Jesus.
Hypothetically, supposing the original Christianity of the apostles has been tainted, exactly how many angels must God send before you'll believe them?
2007-07-01 11:03:43 · answer #4 · answered by Bravo-Alpha 3 · 3⤊ 1⤋
Could be a talisman against people who can't tell the difference between "there" and "their"?
There's a HUGE difference between an ICON and an IDOL. For example, most Catholic churches have an icon (statue) of Mary. Does your argument extend to the Catholic church?
2007-07-01 10:54:02 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
We don't have them in our churches. We have a statue of him on top of our temples. He is a symbol of the Restoration of the gospel and of the gospel being preached. Because he appeared to the prophet Joseph Smith, the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints has been restored on the earth. It is not idolotry, but respect for his role.
2007-07-01 10:16:13 · answer #6 · answered by Karen 4 · 5⤊ 1⤋
Correction: from Holy Bible:
Jesus = the Saviour of Israel(only)
Christ = the Saviour of the world
Salvation = "through Jesus-->Christ".
To WIT, that God was in "Christ" reconciling: 2Cor 5:19.
(that Gods was NOT in Jesus alienating by imputing sin)
Jesus: made under the law; "division" and not peace
Christ: is the end of the law; "peace" and not divided
Mark and AVOID them which cause divisions: Rom 16
Ye are not under the law, but under grace: Rom & Gal.
Jesus: Son of "God on high" in plural divided "heavens"
Christ: Son of "God in heaven":" higher than the heavens"
If ye be risen with "Christ", set your affection "above": Col3
If justified by law, fallen, and Christ of no effect to you: Gal5
Never mind what the Morons do.
Get your head out of your own @ss first,
and put it on your shoulders where it belongs.
Then you'll stop making sides and taking a side.
Pst: making sides and having wars is divisional.
God can't be one by division, but is one by unity.
"Christ" is the head of the Church, not Jesus.
The grace(only) of our Lord Jesus-->Christ with you-->all. Amen.
2007-07-01 11:59:05 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
What difference does it make? Jesus is not a savior, he was just a man (maybe). Moroni was not an angel, angels do not exist. You can't argue that one religion does a crazy thing when your religion does crazy things as well.
2007-07-01 10:15:18 · answer #8 · answered by atheist jesus 4 · 1⤊ 4⤋
Revelations 14:
6 And I saw another angel fly in the midst of heaven, having the everlasting gospel to preach unto them that dwell on the earth, and to every nation, and kindred, and tongue, and people
The angel Moroni fulfills this prophecy.
The angel Moroni is put on every temple in the direction of Jerusalem pointing the return of Christ our savior.
Also he is put on our temples because one of the ten commandments is not to put a graven image of God.
http://www.lds.org
http://www.mormon.org
http://www.fairlds.org
http://farms.byu.edu
2007-07-01 10:15:23 · answer #9 · answered by Brother G 6 · 4⤊ 3⤋
Why do Catholics have statues of the saints, Mary, or the Pope?
Because, in "their mind", it is a way to honor those who have gone before them; as an example of how to live a 'righteous' life.
2007-07-01 10:14:35 · answer #10 · answered by whathappentothisnation 3 · 2⤊ 1⤋