Yes, Gabriel is "fear not" and so are the angels appearing to the shepherds. Although it could be the sudden appearance was startling. The somewhat apocryphal Book of Tobit is a long story of a man traveling around, unaware, with an angel. The angels who came to Lot in Genesis 19 seem to have been recognized as such by him, but not the townsmen, who wanted to sodomize them. They seem to be shapeshifters. The "cherubim" are not human-like, certainly not fat babies. There are familiar old statues from the middle east which have bodies of lions, wings of eagles, and human heads, usually some king, and they are sometimes called cherubim, but no telling what the connection is, if any.
The apocrypha interests me... Ive read a little out of curiosity but I'm not 100% sure they're divinely inspired so I stay at arms length. The book of Enoch is particularly fascinating cuz it deals with anti deluvian society which is a historical question mark for the most part. And I LOVE history
Enoch and I believe Jasher are both mentioned in the Bible, they were probably popular versions that got pared down. Read the Book of Jubilees. Like Enoch and Jasper, it's mostly an expanded version of Genesis. Good practice for datefagging. :)
I'll definitely check it out! I know one of the 12 disciples mentions a passage from the book of Enoch in the new testament, so back then they seemed to be aware of it's existence and knew enough about it to quote it directly.
Yes, Gabriel is "fear not" and so are the angels appearing to the shepherds. Although it could be the sudden appearance was startling. The somewhat apocryphal Book of Tobit is a long story of a man traveling around, unaware, with an angel. The angels who came to Lot in Genesis 19 seem to have been recognized as such by him, but not the townsmen, who wanted to sodomize them. They seem to be shapeshifters. The "cherubim" are not human-like, certainly not fat babies. There are familiar old statues from the middle east which have bodies of lions, wings of eagles, and human heads, usually some king, and they are sometimes called cherubim, but no telling what the connection is, if any.
The apocrypha interests me... Ive read a little out of curiosity but I'm not 100% sure they're divinely inspired so I stay at arms length. The book of Enoch is particularly fascinating cuz it deals with anti deluvian society which is a historical question mark for the most part. And I LOVE history
Enoch and I believe Jasher are both mentioned in the Bible, they were probably popular versions that got pared down. Read the Book of Jubilees. Like Enoch and Jasper, it's mostly an expanded version of Genesis. Good practice for datefagging. :)
I'll definitely check it out! I know one of the 12 disciples mentions a passage from the book of Enoch in the new testament, so back then they seemed to be aware of it's existence and knew enough about it to quote it directly.