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Angels are referred to in the Hebrew language as bene elohim,
or &quot;sons of God.&quot; Bible scholar Dr. Henry Morris says
about the angels:
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&quot;The only obvious and natural meaning [of the designation,
“sons of God”]... is that these beings were sons of God, rather
than of men, because they had been created, not born. Such a
description, of course, would apply only to Adam (Lk. 3:38) and
to the angels, whom God had directly created (Psa. 148:2, 5;
104:4; Col. 1:16).&quot; Dr. Morris explains further:
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&quot;Whenever angels have appeared visibly to men, as recorded
in the Bible, they have appeared in the physical bodies of men.
Those who met with Abraham, for example, actually ate with him
(Gen. 18:8) and, later, appeared to the inhabitants of Sodom
in such perfectly manlike shape that the Sodomites were attempting
to take these ‘men’ for homosexual purposes. The writer of Hebrews
suggests that, on various occasions, some ‘have entertained angels
unawares’ (Heb. 13:2).
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‘It is true that the Lord Jesus said that...in the resurrection
they ‘neither marry, nor are given in marriage, but are as the
angels of God in heaven’ (Mat. 22:30). However, this is not equivalent
to saying that angels are &quot;sexless,&quot; since people who
share in the resurrection will surely retain their own personal
identity, whether male or female.
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Furthermore, angels are always described, when they appear, as
‘men,’ and the pronoun ‘he’ is always used in reference to them.
Somehow they have been given by God the capacity of materializing
themselves in masculine human form when occasion warrants, even
though their bodies are not under the control of the gravitational
and electromagnetic forces which limit our own bodies in this
present life.&quot; (The above excerpt is from The Giants of
Old (Part 2), The Genesis Record - by Henry Morris.)
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