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- Embed this notice@nugger @EdBoatConnoisseur >ANGELS HAVE NO PHYSICAL BODIES
It doesn't matter. Being without any form, no matter the composition, is not a necessary attribute of spiritualness. Being spirit refers to spiritual things' composition and substance which is simple or without parts among other attributes, which is contrasted to physical matter and energy that is made up in parts.
>ALL DEPICTIONS OF THEM SYMBOLICALLY SIGNIFIES SOMETHING INSTEAD OF SHOWING THEIR MATERIAL REALITY
To portray oneself falsely as a real ontological being for a mere symbol and appearance that is not readily apparent to all audiences of the vision, both the ones receiving the visions and the readers both ancient and modern, that has no basis whatsoever on one's actual ontological status is breaking the 9th Commandment, and neither God nor His faithful angels can do so being the Father and messengers of Truth.
>LIVING IN THE INVISIBLE AIR BETWEEN MATERIAL THINGS
Whenever the Bible mentions the "invisibility" of God and spiritual things, it is referring only to the inability of human people living on Earth to regular experience and perceive those things, as God put a hard demarcation between the spiritual and the physical. it does not refer to inability to whatsoever for all eternity to perceive a true form of spiritual things. This demarcation is removed at the end of history and is a promise for believers (Rev. 22:1,3). To say otherwise or make merely symbolic voids that promise and call God a liar.
Moses saw the form and appearance of the Lord:
"With him I speak mouth to mouth, clearly, and not in riddles, and he beholds the form of the LORD. Why then were you not afraid to speak against my servant Moses?" (Num. 12:8)
Even when the Israelites did and could not for their sinfulness and faithlessness:
"Therefore watch yourselves very carefully. Since you saw no form on the day that the LORD spoke to you at Horeb out of the midst of the fire,
beware lest you act corruptly by making a carved image for yourselves, in the form of any figure, the likeness of male or female, (Deut. 4:15-16)
Therefore you cannot ascribe formlessness, exhaustive and eternal invisibility, and unreal and innately deceptive appearances to spiritual things.