Regarding angels and demons. What about their language? Do they automatically have the ability to speak any language? Is there any sort of learning curve?
What about their names? Why would we presume that they were given names at their creation, when men are given names by their parents? If they are given names, from what culture do these names arise? Are there any named ‘Carl’, or ‘Larry’ or ‘Akhenaten’ or ‘Glarb’? In Scripture, we are given the names of some angels, but these names have a very European or Middle Eastern sound to them? Does this mean that when they were named, those locations were somehow normal?
Or were these names given to their original audience to make them feel more connected? If so, do these beings actually have ‘real’ names? Without names, they can hardly be said to have an identity. Could they be unnamed creatures that are merely part of divisions or categories, such as cherubim, seraphim, etc.?
Every person born since the beginning of time was given a name, which was formed within the culture the child was born into. Without a name, there is no identity. What would a person, an angel, or a demon think of himself as without a name?
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