How and why do angels fight?

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  1. tashja Registered Senior Member

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    All throughout holy books, there are always chapters about angels and demons and spirits fighting amongst themselves--and I've always wondered how and why do they do this. Aren't they suppose to be immortal? What is the point of fighting if you cannot defeat your enemy spirit (meaning kill them or something)?

    What's the point of having swords and chains? Like for example: in the book of Daniel, an angel was wrestling with another angel and they were locked in battle for some time. How does that happen? They are both immortal, and probably know each other's power and stuff. Couldn't they just point at the other angel and say a curse or something? I don't see the need for physical contact. Why do they even bother? Is there like a book outhere that deals with this specific topic?

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  3. iceaura Valued Senior Member

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    Not enough room on the pinhead for all of them?
     
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  5. tashja Registered Senior Member

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    No, yeah, for real. I wanna know.

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  7. FreshHat Registered Senior Member

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    Probably the same reason big bad wolves huff and puff and blow down the houses of little pigs when their natural pack hunting instincts would yield quicker and better results - wouldn't be a very good fairytale otherwise.
     
  8. tashja Registered Senior Member

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    Yes. I've considered the possibility that is not real. But there has to be theologian out there that maybe can shed some light on it.
     
  9. Jan Ardena OM!!! Valued Senior Member

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    I'm no theologian, but what makes you think angels/demons are immortal?

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  10. tashja Registered Senior Member

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    Angels can die, then??
     
  11. Jan Ardena OM!!! Valued Senior Member

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    yes, but their life-span is alot longer than ours.

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  12. tashja Registered Senior Member

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    How does it happen? Do they keep on living in another afterlife? Or they simply disappear from existence forever?
     
  13. Jan Ardena OM!!! Valued Senior Member

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    Depends on your philosophy.
    Mine says they, like any other living being, live, then die.

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  14. tashja Registered Senior Member

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    So they disappear forever? Meaning they're no longer conscious of their existence?
     
  15. Jan Ardena OM!!! Valued Senior Member

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    yes.


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  16. Me-Ki-Gal Banned Banned

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    Angels fly by the seat of there pants . Haphazardly
     
  17. spidergoat pubic diorama Valued Senior Member

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    This is my problem with the heavenly realm, it sounds far too human.
     
  18. Jan Ardena OM!!! Valued Senior Member

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    Why is that a problem?

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  19. tashja Registered Senior Member

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    Maybe that's all for our benefit. Like that Star Trek episode where the Q's were fighting each other with human weapons and stuff so that Picard could understand what was going on.
     
  20. Emil Valued Senior Member

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    I do not believe, they "only" fall into hell.
    If they are obedient then maybe they reach up to God again.
     
  21. Jan Ardena OM!!! Valued Senior Member

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    Nice touch with the Star Trek analogy.

    That would have been specifically for Picard, because he is a staunch atheist.

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  22. tashja Registered Senior Member

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    @Emil,

    Wouldn't they hold a grudge against God for sending them there only to take them out again?
     
  23. Emil Valued Senior Member

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    One of the conditions for them to be readmitted beside God is faith and total obediance to God.
    If they have a grudge against God, then they will stay in Hell.
     

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