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To: Philsworld

Your premise is that certain verses are allegory at your own convenience.

the WORD says that they took on human FORM

In each of the stories where angels DID these things, please cite the verse where it says what you claim...”that they took on human FORM”.

Cite the verses Phil.
Just the verses.


127 posted on 11/24/2023 6:03:19 AM PST by SheepWhisperer (Get involved with, or start a home fellowship group. It will be the final church. ACTS 2:42-47)
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To: SheepWhisperer

And more...

Lot later OBVIOUSLY knew they were ANGELS, and not human beings, AS THEY APPEARED.

Compared with the rest of the story, there is a sudden change in the pronouns from plural to singular. Notice verse 17, “So it came to pass, when they had brought them outside, that he said”—one of the messengers speaks. In verse 18, Lot addresses them and uses the term “lords.” Keil & Delitzsch Commentary says, No, “lord” is singular in the Hebrew.

Adonai, “Lord,” is the name of God. Is it the name of Melchizedek? Was Melchizedek there to destroy the city? If the messenger was not Melchizedek, why did Lot call him “lord”? Why in verses 21 and 22 does the angel take the authority to himself to destroy the city? He says to Lot, “I cannot do anything until you arrive there,” and then verse 24 relates, “The LORD rained down. . . .” Is the LORD the same “lord” who was the “I” of verse 22? An interesting sequence of verses.

Not only does Keil & Delitzsch say this, but the Jewish Publication Society’s Tanahk, the King James Version, and the Revised Standard Version all reinforce this idea in various ways.

https://www.bibletools.org/index.cfm/fuseaction/Topical.show/RTD/cgg/ID/8867/Angels-appearing-as-Men.htm


132 posted on 11/24/2023 3:45:02 PM PST by Philsworld (It's all short quips and funny memes, until you find that you've come up short in the judgment. )
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