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They may have bodies, but they are invisible to us.
If a spirit has no body, they are without form. Angels can manifest themselves into any appearance they want....
Clarence Larkin said,
Angels have bodies, but that these bodies are somehow more pure or more spiritual than those of man. Clarence Larkin simply states, "angels have bodies." John Bickford Heard, while saying that angels have no "physical nature," nonetheless suggests that angels, like resurrected men, have "pneumatical bodies."
Lewis Sperry Chafer, who writes, "if the angels have bodies, their bodies are of a spiritual order.
In conclusion, we can summarize the views of trichotomic theologians as follows:
Clarence Larkin said,
Angels have bodies, but that these bodies are somehow more pure or more spiritual than those of man. Clarence Larkin simply states, "angels have bodies." John Bickford Heard, while saying that angels have no "physical nature," nonetheless suggests that angels, like resurrected men, have "pneumatical bodies."
Lewis Sperry Chafer, who writes, "if the angels have bodies, their bodies are of a spiritual order.
In conclusion, we can summarize the views of trichotomic theologians as follows:
- Angels are, or have, spirits.
- Angels do not have bodies like men; if they do have bodies, they are in some sense spiritual bodies.
- Angels do not have souls.
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