My local evangelist insists that angels are lower than humans. We’re children, not servants. So they’re supposed to obey us (they work for the family), and we only have to obey them insofar as they convey messages from Dad. If we mess up we can be forgiven, whereas angels get booted to hell with no second chances. (The Lord is kind of a shitty employer.)
Also according to my local evangelist, Satan’s fall happened in two parts. First, he was the hottest piece of ass in Heaven, which caused him to pull a Narcissus and demand worship from other angels. But the Lord can’t share worship, it’s part of the class restrictions. So he grew mightily pissed and cast Satan down to Earth, whose inhabitants Satan turned into demons. Second, the Lord made Adam and gave him Earth to rule over, since the current Earthlings weren’t anyone he cared for. Squatting Satan wasn’t happy with his new landlord, so he tempted him and got cast down to Hell for that.
Many stories can be spun from the materials, as would be expected of godshatter. “A little lower than the angels” is actually from Psalms 8:5 (and quoted in Hebrews 2:7). Interestingly, the next verse says “Thou madest him to have dominion over the works of thy hands”, which together implies that the angels are not the work of God’s hands. This is not the only place where a hint of polytheism breaks through.
It’s ambiguous whether the translation should be “lower than the angels” or “lower than yourself”. (That’s what you get for not classifying angels as deities.) Oddly, Hebrews 2:7 is always translated using angels, though the text is the same in Hebrew versions, probably intentionally backtranslating from Greek. (ותחסרהו מעט מאלוהים, וכבוד והדר תעטרהו)
Even weirder, translations of Hebrews 2:7 in other languages tend to say “You have lowered him under the angels for a short time”, not created so permanently. But translations of Psalm 8:5 are all about “created lower than”, with the same disagreement about the relevant celestial being.
I can’t find any Greek translations of Psalm 8:5 so I can’t tell if they match Hebrews 2:7, and anyway it’d be Modern Greek.
My local evangelist insists that angels are lower than humans. We’re children, not servants. So they’re supposed to obey us (they work for the family), and we only have to obey them insofar as they convey messages from Dad. If we mess up we can be forgiven, whereas angels get booted to hell with no second chances. (The Lord is kind of a shitty employer.)
Also according to my local evangelist, Satan’s fall happened in two parts. First, he was the hottest piece of ass in Heaven, which caused him to pull a Narcissus and demand worship from other angels. But the Lord can’t share worship, it’s part of the class restrictions. So he grew mightily pissed and cast Satan down to Earth, whose inhabitants Satan turned into demons. Second, the Lord made Adam and gave him Earth to rule over, since the current Earthlings weren’t anyone he cared for. Squatting Satan wasn’t happy with his new landlord, so he tempted him and got cast down to Hell for that.
Many stories can be spun from the materials, as would be expected of godshatter. “A little lower than the angels” is actually from Psalms 8:5 (and quoted in Hebrews 2:7). Interestingly, the next verse says “Thou madest him to have dominion over the works of thy hands”, which together implies that the angels are not the work of God’s hands. This is not the only place where a hint of polytheism breaks through.
It’s ambiguous whether the translation should be “lower than the angels” or “lower than yourself”. (That’s what you get for not classifying angels as deities.) Oddly, Hebrews 2:7 is always translated using angels, though the text is the same in Hebrew versions, probably intentionally backtranslating from Greek. (ותחסרהו מעט מאלוהים, וכבוד והדר תעטרהו)
Even weirder, translations of Hebrews 2:7 in other languages tend to say “You have lowered him under the angels for a short time”, not created so permanently. But translations of Psalm 8:5 are all about “created lower than”, with the same disagreement about the relevant celestial being.
I can’t find any Greek translations of Psalm 8:5 so I can’t tell if they match Hebrews 2:7, and anyway it’d be Modern Greek.