When.com Web Search

Search results

  1. Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
  2. Angels in art - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angels_in_art

    With the use of her long dark hair and features made somewhat more androgynous, they created a prototype Victorian angel which would appear in paintings and stained glass windows. Roger Homan notes that Edward Burne-Jones and others used her image often and in different ways, creating a new type of angel. [19]

  3. The Creation of Adam - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Creation_of_Adam

    God's right arm is outstretched to impart the spark of life from his own finger into that of Adam, who is actually already created [9] but inert [10] [11] (see Gen. 2:7), and whose left arm is extended in a pose mirroring God's, a reminder that God said, "Let us make humankind in our image, according to our likeness" .

  4. Angel - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angel

    [63] [64] According to 1 Corinthians 6:3, angels will be judged by God, implying that angels can be both good and evil. Some scholars suggest that Gal 3:19 means that the Law of Moses was introduced by angels rather than God, combined with his statements in Galatians, implies a negative role. [65] In Collosians 2:18, he criticizes the worship ...

  5. Angels in Islam - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angels_in_Islam

    The cosmology outlined in the Buyruks ascribes a central role to angels. Accordingly, when God created the angels, God tested them by asking who they are. Those angels who responded "You are the Creator and I am the created." were the good angels, while those who claimed independency by stating "You are you; I am I" were burned. [72]

  6. Great chain of being - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_chain_of_being

    The chain begins with God and descends through angels, humans, animals and plants to minerals. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ] The great chain of being (from Latin scala naturae 'ladder of being') is a concept derived from Plato , Aristotle (in his Historia Animalium ), Plotinus and Proclus . [ 4 ]

  7. Azazil - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Azazil

    The angels meet Adam, and seem to share, albeit to a lesser degree, the defiant reaction of Iblīs, who stands at the back haughtily turning his head away. According to tradition, God created Iblīs as a beautiful angel called ʿAzāzīl and he is depicted as such here. He is portrayed with his characteristic darker skin to denote his impending ...

  8. List of angels in theology - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_angels_in_theology

    Guardian Angel, Archangel My help is God, of God's flock, Angel of Sagittarius Agiel: Zazel Christianity, Judaism, Islam Archangel, Seraph: The Intelligence Angels of all kinds, Guardian Angel of Saturn Ananiel: Christianity Watcher Storm of God, Angel of water, guard of the gates of the South Wind [1] Anush: Mandaeism Uthra

  9. Image of God - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image_of_God

    The phrase "image of God" is found in three passages in the Hebrew Bible, all in the Book of Genesis 1–11: . And God said: 'Let us make man in our image/b'tsalmeinu, after our likeness/kid'muteinu; and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth.'