How To Create Angels

It has concerned me of late that a lot of people are confused about the existence of angels, how they come to be and what their purpose(s) is/are, even whilst believing in their existence. Even though I am not a student of angelology I feel compelled to attempt to clarify at least the basic, most important points as best as I can within the framework of a blog post.

My concern has arisen from frequently hearing people referring to loved ones who have died as now being “angels in heaven” who have been called home by god (small “g” intentional) and as such I feel a need to point out the differences between humans and angels.

Just as humans are beings created by God, angels are too. In itself, this is enough to suggest that the two types of creatures are not aspects of one another based upon their present physical condition. By this I mean that a human’s spirit does not become an angel after physical death (it remains a human, albeit temporarily in a non-corporeal form); in addition, an angel is not an aspect of a human or a human in a particular plane of existence, but a unique, non-material creature that can - on rare occasions - be given the ability to appear in humanoid form.

Angels exist in vast numbers, reside with God in the heavenly realm and are used by God to assist Him in His earthly work. Some angels also spend their “lives” in perpetual worship of God. They are ageless and sexless. They are in some respects “greater” than humans and in some ways “lesser” and in all of this they are quite simply very different from ourselves.

I am aware that I have really only just touched on this subject and I plan to write a more detailed post in future, more specifically dealing with different aspects of angels and providing references to accompany the points made. This post is simply designed to prompt further thinking on a dangerously misunderstood subject. Please know, reader, that we are all immortal beings with two choices as to where to exist in our immortal state. The only way to join the host of angels in God’s presence is to put our faith in His son Jesus who died to provide us that very opportunity.

For the moment, let me leave you with the knowledge that whilst we will never become angels we are better off for this fact because God has imbued them with abilities that we don’t have and employs them to assist us - unseen - all throughout our lives; indeed, I don’t think one needs to be a Christian to recognise that sometimes things transpire in our lives to suggest that we are - sometimes inexplicably - being looked after by a “guardian angel”, not a person previously lost to us, but an agent specifically created by God to help us.