Product Details

• Format: Color, NTSC
• Rated: NR (Not Rated)
• Number of tapes: 1
• Studio: A&E Home Video
• VHS Release Date: December 23, 1996
• Run Time: 50 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• ASIN: 6304340044
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #40,949 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)

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Are angels male or female or both? Eternal or mortal? Messengers from God or shapers of destiny? In an attempt to resolve these and other questions regarding the nature of angels this A&E program (part of the Mysteries of the Bible series) looks to a variety of sources for answers: the Bible, the Apocrypha, Dante's Divine Comedy--even Phoenician drawings. Jean Simmons reads the quotations in response to narrator Richard Kiley's questions and several professors--with specialties ranging from the Old Testament to Renaissance studies--chime in. The material is organized into five acts, with titles like "Celestial Guardians" and "Earthly Spirits." While the essence of angels isn't ultimately resolved in this 45-minute offering, viewers do get an eyeful of some of the more famous visions of angels by artists, including da Vinci, Raphael, and Botticelli. --Kimberly Heinrichs

Product Description

They are quiet figures at the center of some of the Bible's most miraculous moments. They steeled David against Goliath, warned Abraham of Sodom's destruction and freed Peter from jail. But while the work of angels has long stirred popular imagination, wonder and debate cloud the details of their holy purpose. What do the Scriptures tell us about them? Are they messengers from Heaven? What do they look like? Do they continue to guide and help us today? And what happened to the "fallen angels?" This extraordinary program searches for clues in the stories of the Bible's heavenly spirits, from the archangels Michael and Gabriel to the ethereal forms that announced Christ's birth and resurrection.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Why we are fascinated by angels, March 10, 2003

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Rebecca Johnson "The Rebecca Review" (Washington State) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Mysteries of the Bible: Biblical Angels [VHS] (VHS Tape)

An angel can illuminate the thought and mind of man by strengthening the power of vision. - St. Thomas Aquinas

This special asks more questions than it answers. At the end we only know angels are more mysterious than ever. I didn't realize Thomas Aquinas had insisted that God has given everyone a guardian angel, however I have always believed this to be true.

I'm not quite sure why they ask if angels are eternal or mortal? This makes no sense. They are obviously eternal beings. We are eternal souls. We are just in a body form at the moment trying to keep soul and body together while living on the earth.

One of the most interesting aspects of this story is the "Phoenician drawings." They also emphasized how Satan was God's devoted servant at one point. We do know that angels did seem to have a choice to be good or evil in the same way humans do.

What I have always wondered about is why Satan thought he could defeat God and why he still thinks he can.

~The Rebecca Review