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To: AlaskaErik
Angels are incorporeal beings. Only beings with bodies can be said to occupy space. An infinite numer could be there....

Also, such a question was never considered by Medieval Theologians. It is a canard meant to caricature great Theologians as out of touch with reality and occupied with fantastical ideas inapplicable to life on Earth

11 posted on 08/14/2006 3:30:13 AM PDT by bornacatholic
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To: bornacatholic
Angels are incorporeal beings.

That idea was not universal among Christians in the Middle Ages. An angel is a creature and therefore had a body, although a much more subtle body than a human. Those angels who occupied the airy regions below the orbit of the Moon ate and drank and deficated. Those angels who populated the aetherial regions above the orbit of the moon were even more subtle creatures, so subtle and nearer to God that they could be considered to be spiritualized bodies. So the tendency to make them incorpoeal was latent in their sublte nature, and I think by the Renaissance that idea seems to become the dominant one.

28 posted on 08/14/2006 5:28:33 PM PDT by stripes1776
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