Why Do Angels Dance on Pinheads?

A majority of Americans believe in angels, but what are they? Where did the idea of angels come from? John Hamer of Toronto Centre Place looks at the history of angels in the Western tradition. He will also take a deep dive into the way Medieval philosopher discussed angels. Although ridiculed by later thinkers in the Enlightenment for pondering abstruse questions like “how many angels can dance on the head of a pin,” Medieval thinkers actually used the idea of "angels" in thought experiments about philosophical questions like free will and determinism that are still relevant today.

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  • @astrobullivant5908
    @astrobullivant59082 жыл бұрын

    The claim that Medieval Scholastics debated the question "How many angels can dance on the head of a pin" comes from a hypothetical that Thomas Aquinas briefly posed in Summa Theologica when he asked "Can many angels be in the same place?" However, it's clear from the context of the question that Aquinas was ironically asking the question to criticize the Scholastics. Even though the Scholastics like Duns Scotus probably didn't spend too much time asking that specific angel question, they were extremely introspective.

  • @alexvince461
    @alexvince4612 жыл бұрын

    Great lecture, I still don't know why angels dance on pinheads, however, John Hamer is about the best lecturer I've ever seen, what a great guy, I love centre place

  • @dcraexon134

    @dcraexon134

    2 жыл бұрын

    Zippy was a pinhead

  • @alexvince461

    @alexvince461

    2 жыл бұрын

    Ya

  • @WayneBraack

    @WayneBraack

    Жыл бұрын

    Because the tiny orchestras that exist on pinheads are very very good. 😊.

  • @panninggazz5244

    @panninggazz5244

    8 ай бұрын

    I will take a wild guess and say 3???

  • @panninggazz5244

    @panninggazz5244

    8 ай бұрын

    Ouch!!!! My head just exploded 1:17:36

  • @gorillaguerillaDK
    @gorillaguerillaDK2 жыл бұрын

    One! Angels don’t dance, except for Aziraphale who learned to dance the Gavotte in the late 1880's, in Poland….

  • @timothymulholland7905
    @timothymulholland79052 жыл бұрын

    Angels permitted the church to continue having a pantheon without admitting it. The saints, as glorified human heroes, also fulfill the role of lesser gods who can be called on to perform miracles and to intercede with God. Mary is a special deity, since she is God’s mother.

  • @Cor6196

    @Cor6196

    2 жыл бұрын

    My mother, a Roman Catholic in what was then a near-totally Catholic city, used to go to the Italian church (we had a French, an Irish, a Portuguese, etc) to pray to St Anthony and light a candle in front of his statue whenever she lost something important. She always found what she had lost. Which proves….😜

  • @friendo6257

    @friendo6257

    2 жыл бұрын

    This. The angels are demigods. The devil is a god. The Old Testament includes other Canaanite gods and claims they have power rivaling Yahweh

  • @thatonekid6677

    @thatonekid6677

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@friendo6257 yup. Yahweh is only the god of the israelites

  • @friendo6257

    @friendo6257

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@thatonekid6677 and he inherited the kingdom from his dad El Elyon the father deity of the Canaanites.

  • @williamlitsch5506

    @williamlitsch5506

    2 жыл бұрын

    This is exactly correct

  • @markanthonycoliinson873
    @markanthonycoliinson873 Жыл бұрын

    I love your lectures John Hamer. Thanks from Manchester, England. x

  • @markstuber4731
    @markstuber47312 жыл бұрын

    I don't care if the Chareb has six wings, Elizabeth. That isn't info that was worth the interruption.

  • @alexvince461
    @alexvince4612 жыл бұрын

    Wim Wenders Wings of desire is a great film about angels, filmed in 1980s Berlin remade as a terrible film with Nicholas Cage for Americans

  • @aaacool0873
    @aaacool0873 Жыл бұрын

    Awesome content!!!

  • @duantorruellas716
    @duantorruellas716 Жыл бұрын

    Very good lecture . Through enough to not be boring and still hold attention. Strung together nicely. I have a problem with biblical writing added after the fact. I don't understand why the biblical narratives changed over time when the original ideas were hard enough to grasp for most back then who couldn't even read and write. They would write a story about man having freewill to worship God without pressure , where faith is paramount. And the angels who were created before man without freewill for a purpose to serve God . If they were created first how did man become angels by dying and coming back to earth. This is where metatron and Hollywood turn it into a comic book and it loses the single minded philosophy it was intended to help people apply to aspects of their own lives. Not to mention having two camps of a religious concepts that can be fought over bringing more bloodshed within the same belief system. And they made saints out of angels , st. Michael etc. Either you're a human or an angel , humans can be saints but angels or not human so they cannot be saints. Writers always come after the facts wanting to change the story adding their own BS. How can anyone take the Bible serious if it reads like a comic book that people keep adding more stories to it that don't even match what's there already.

  • @masstv9052

    @masstv9052

    5 ай бұрын

    The bible was already a bunch of stories written by a bunch of different authors adding there own after the fact. Jesus changes if you read the gospels in chronological order. Also, Paul (who never met Jesus) had a total different view of Christianity and Jesus, despite all the apostles who actually knew Jesus, kept telling him to stop spreading falsities on worship and beliefs. From the old testament to the new testament you find authors of each book contradicting each other. It's why there's different versions of the flood, of jesus' resurrection, of the creation of earth & humans, of jesus' birth, and so much more.

  • @randyallen2966
    @randyallen29668 ай бұрын

    Bravo

  • @williamlitsch5506
    @williamlitsch55062 жыл бұрын

    Anselm's argument fails as long as you accept that "bad" or evil exists based off empiricism. It's a given and exists therefore was created and that creature with an absence was made by God and therby must be the source of all evil.

  • @jimconner6944
    @jimconner69442 жыл бұрын

    Wha happened ? Was discussing error of freewill (universalism) ....

  • @indigohalf
    @indigohalf2 жыл бұрын

    Pic of God fully peacing out on us at 32:00 and nobody said anything. There he is, creator of the Earth throwing deuces like "gl bye lol." This is why I haven't heard from him since I was 10 lol

  • @susiefairfield7218
    @susiefairfield72182 жыл бұрын

    What shall we say, shall we call it by a name As well to count the angels dancing on a pin Water bright as the sky from which it came And the name is on the earth that takes it in We will not speak but stand inside the rain And listen to the thunder shout I am, I am, I am, I am! - Let It Grow ✌🏾❤⚡💙💀🌹

  • @tammikibler
    @tammikibler2 жыл бұрын

    Is that cherub holding a selfie stick at 26:38?

  • @ansfridaeyowulfsdottir8095
    @ansfridaeyowulfsdottir80952 жыл бұрын

    I thought the great puzzle was how many? {:-:-:}

  • @jackiereynolds2888
    @jackiereynolds28882 жыл бұрын

    If infinity has no number, then it cannot have any numerical meaning.

  • @thatonekid6677

    @thatonekid6677

    2 жыл бұрын

    it's a concept, and doesn't have any 'value' bound to it, but still has meaning. i'm not sure what you mean by this comment😅

  • @abzeromusic
    @abzeromusic Жыл бұрын

    8:08

  • @chrimony
    @chrimony Жыл бұрын

    Yep, I've had enough of Ansel.

  • @jussikankinen9409
    @jussikankinen94094 ай бұрын

    So god made apple but angel drops it down

  • @tedgrant2
    @tedgrant2 Жыл бұрын

    Because they've got nothing better to do

  • @Cliodhna3ltlbrdsheal
    @Cliodhna3ltlbrdsheal2 жыл бұрын

    Reverse engineer but gotta flip because of the mirrors

  • @olasylvia1
    @olasylvia12 жыл бұрын

    Angels-= angles of light. Check out Bill Donahue.

  • @josephkania642
    @josephkania6422 жыл бұрын

    Where in the Bible does El reside over a council with Yahweh a member?

  • @shlanc

    @shlanc

    2 жыл бұрын

    I think one of the passages he refers to (God dividing the nations) is Deuteronomy 32:8-9. In that passage "Elyon" (God) divided the nations according to the number of "sons of God" ("elohim")-- suggesting a council of sorts. It then says, Jacob's portion was given to Yahweh. Some scholars point out that it is possible to read this as saying "El" or "Elyon" is a god presiding over a council of lesser gods ("elohim' meaning "sons of god"), of which, "Yahweh" is one, since he recieves one portion; Israel. Other readers can interpret "El" as synonyms with "Yahweh' and, thus, the passage depicts God claiming Israel for God's self. Many historians have interpreted the passage as describing a council because other Canaanite/Ugaritic texts depict a supreme god "El" and his wife "Asherah" as ruling a pantheon of gods called "elohim" ("sons of god"). Whether "Yahweh" is a part of that pantheon is unclear but it is one possibility. Generally, monotheist christians who deny that the old testament contains elements of paganism, simply choose to identify "El" in that passage as being the same entity as "Yahweh." Spiritually, either reading is possible, though they may lead you to different theological conclusions. The Bible is wonderfully complex

  • @friendo6257

    @friendo6257

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@shlanc excellent response. Something to note, the names of the archangels and even the word angel implies the council/Elohim. AngEL, MichaEL, GabriEL, RaphaEL all include the word god (El) in their names. Like god, strength of god, healed by god, etc. The one exception to this that I’m familiar with is the satan, who isn’t identified with a name, only a title.

  • @ronjohnson4566

    @ronjohnson4566

    7 ай бұрын

    And don't forget El Cid

  • @eldraque4556
    @eldraque45562 жыл бұрын

    To prove a piont?

  • @leadwithgreeneconomy
    @leadwithgreeneconomy2 жыл бұрын

    Why do unicorns swim in sand? Who knows all the mysteries of the universe?

  • @eldraque4556
    @eldraque45562 жыл бұрын

    becuase they are not subject to the Pauli exclusion principle?

  • @ronjohnson4566
    @ronjohnson45667 ай бұрын

    Cause pinheads were the only ones that would let them.

  • @jounik8980
    @jounik89802 жыл бұрын

    So gods turned angels

  • @ChrisMusante
    @ChrisMusanteАй бұрын

    What you are explaining here is the 'unknown God', and a bunch of people that are seeking God and doing the best they can to explain the reality that cannot be denied. With regards to 'belief'... whatever you believe - real or not - is... 'rael'. Israel.

  • @josephkania642
    @josephkania6422 жыл бұрын

    Cavilling: A new verb to me that I must use at some point.

  • @likklej8
    @likklej82 жыл бұрын

    Angels on pinheads quantum physics explained in mythology format?

  • @eldraque4556
    @eldraque45562 жыл бұрын

    because in infinite space and time, every possibility must occur at some piont

  • @jeffturner8927
    @jeffturner89272 жыл бұрын

    Unfortunately guardian angels often fail in their duties.

  • @friendo6257

    @friendo6257

    2 жыл бұрын

    At a rate consistent with nonexistence.

  • @jounik8980
    @jounik89802 жыл бұрын

    99% arent albert Einstein

  • @drpsionic
    @drpsionic2 жыл бұрын

    The medieval theologians really were pinheads so if an angel could dance on the head of theologian than it would dance on a pinhead.

  • @brentmathie3271
    @brentmathie32712 жыл бұрын

    See you at the Wedding we all need repent walk towards God before Job 19:8,9 8 He has blocked my way so I cannot pass; he has shrouded my paths in darkness. 9 He has stripped me of my honour and 🔥😇🌪 (removed the CROWN from my head) 🥵 🔥 Accompanying the KING through the Open Door 🚪❤️of the heart Ascend the hidden inner pathway to the Crown 🔥😇🌪Gate to the Throne Room Throne Room of God the Eternal Uncaused Morning Star That the Almighty give each of us for not allowing someone to take YOUR Crown from you. ..🔥✝️🌪 because he with his Authority is coming Through the Word Lead by Spirit taught by many about The Holy Lamb Jesus Christ of Nazareth 1st an only Son of The Father prophecy to come 600 years before born My understanding he is the One ☝🏼 who walk in the garden 🪴 the 1st and only Son of God that provided the blue print for Adams manifest flesh, for all of us. The One who sit on The Throne in Daniel with hair like wool and white as snow The One known as The First ☝🏼 One of his names title “The Ancient Of Days “ The father sent him the 1st and only Son Jesus Christ who died for our sin, Risen Triumphant because the father love us

  • @brentmathie3271

    @brentmathie3271

    2 жыл бұрын

    Ephesians 1:4 ESV Even as he chose us in him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and blameless before him. In love The ALMIGHTY KING Of GLORY send the pestilence against the ( servants of ) powers an Principalities spiritual wickedness in high places the children of disobedience. Revelation 18:23, KJV: "And the light of a candle shall shine no more at all in thee; and the voice of the bridegroom and of the bride shall be heard no more at all in thee: for thy merchants were the great men of the earth; for by thy sorceries were all nations deceived COVID name meaning corona, sun, CROWN 🔥😇🌪 THE KINGS Wroth His Cup hand of he who wear the CROWN Jeremiah 7:34 ESV / And I will silence in the cities of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem (the voice of mirth and the voice of gladness, the voice of the bridegroom) and the voice of the bride, for the land shall become a waste. Loving is The Lords Mercy 🥰 Revelation 2:28, KJV: "And I will give him the morning star." Revelation 2:28, NASB: "and I will give him the morning star." Revelation 2:28, NLT: "They will have the same authority I received from my Father, and I will also give them the morning star!" Revelation 2:28, CSB: "just as I have received this from my Father. I will also give him the morning star ✝️………..✍️❤️🚿🔥🌪✅ revelation 2:28 And I will give him the morning star. ... I will also give that one the morning star. They ... have the same authority I received from my Father, and I ... also give them the morning star! And I will give him .. ‭‭John‬ ‭15:1-13, 15-17‬ ‭NLT‬‬ “I am the true grapevine, and my Father is the gardener. He cuts off every branch of mine that doesn’t produce fruit, and he prunes the branches that do bear fruit so they will produce even more. You have already been pruned and purified by the message I have given you. Remain in me, and I will remain in you. For a branch cannot produce fruit if it is severed from the vine, and you cannot be fruitful unless you remain in me. “Yes, I am the vine; you are the branches. Those who remain in me, and I in them, will produce much fruit. For apart from me you can do nothing. Anyone who does not remain in me is thrown away like a useless branch and withers. Such branches are gathered into a pile to be burned. But if you remain in me and my words remain in you, you may ask for anything you want, and it will be granted! When you produce much fruit, you are my true disciples. This brings great glory to my Father. “I have loved you even as the Father has loved me. Remain in my love. When you obey my commandments, you remain in my love, just as I obey my Father’s commandments and remain in his love. I have told you these things so that you will be filled with my joy. Yes, your joy will overflow! This is my commandment: Love each other in the same way I have loved you. There is no greater love than to lay down one’s life for one’s friends. I no longer call you slaves, because a master doesn’t confide in his slaves. Now you are my friends, since I have told you everything the Father told me. You didn’t choose me. I chose you. I appointed you to go and produce lasting fruit, so that the Father will give you whatever you ask for, using my name. This is my command: Love each other.” ‭‭ Revelation 22:16 “I , Jesus, have sent my angel to give you this testimony for the churches. I am the Root and stem of David, “The Bright Morning Star." " 🎵✝️🎵 🎵 🎵 🎵 🎵 🌀😇🔥 The Bride Has Her Good Clothes On, for when the Lord comes like a thief in the night, and the Morning Star rises in the Heart ♥️ Yes and the Truth He The Holy Lamb shared, in reward being given for staying true to the faith. “The Morning Star “ All that is caused has a beginning and an end, there for finite God is Uncaused eternal limitless without a beginning or end . The Caused Universe exits within the Uncaused Eternal Mind of God... one aligns with the one doing the flowing..align with God because God is the Uncaused one doing the flowing within the boundless caused dream of finite experiences within the Eternal mind of God I am we are each a Mirror for God to look upon, in the presence of an within the Throne Room the secret hidden place that ALL of Caused Creation exists within an flows forth from. The Gate of Gods KINGDOM is the open door 🚪 of the heart ❤️ with spirits eyes 👀 ascending the internal pathway leading to the Gate of his holy Kingdom the Eternal Uncaused Morning Star 💫⭕️🌀beyond the still silent boundless Black Sea that one crosses with The Holy Spirit to The Godhead Christ Crown and Gate to, The Throne Room of the Most High Gate to the limitless boundless Uncaused flaming whirlwind Ocean(s) of The Lord Almighty’s Eternal living light... where no darkness exists, beyond and above the darkness of ( the deep ). The caused Canvas All of Caused creation is manifest upon. Jesus delighted in teaching the fear of the lord, ( the fear of the lord has layers of meaning, this is a title, code a hiding place for the full arsenal of a Christian King in service, to the Will Of God) for it is clean enduring forever Come gather round little children and let me teach you about the FEAR Of The LORD because it is The Lords hidden secret treasure The Earth Is The Lords And In The Fullness There Of Trumpeting BOOM of the (silent) Drum ringing like a Bell Holy Voice that Calls sacred Sound of the Most Highs breathed Voice the physically felt Presence of Gods breathed BOOMING voice The HOLY SOUND of God The sacred silent sound that descends booming from above heard with spirits ear that is larger than the sky above and Physically felt externally The breathed voice of God booming descending from above Felt On the top of and above the head booming down through the body “O” be lifted Up “Ancient of Gate “ 🔥✝️🌀 Two Paths Curse an Blessing from The Most High are the rules of the board. I You have a Crown 💫🌀⭕️ that is a Glorious Gate. My father give it to YOU and promises everyone with Faith in the Holy Christ Lord Jesus . “The Everlasting Crown of Life”. Psalm 24 :8 David asks for the Ancient of Gate to be lifted up So that the King of Glory can come in. The Lord mighty in battle The Lord Almighty... “O” Be lifted up Ancient of Gate. Be lifted up !!! 🔥😇🌀 So the King of Glory can come in ... I believe ☝️💯% Jesus wanted the water baptism from John to fore fill Prophecy I also see a comparison between Jesus washing the feet 🦶 of his closest. Then saying if you love me, you will wash 🧽 🦶 The feet of each other as I have done for you This is what I ask of you if you follow me. Another similarly comparative story where man prepares a type of holy ark sanctioned by God, to carry life a cross water 💦 “the deluge “ Noah and all aboard given All of the Lords blessings Through the washing and drying of the ark By God Noah prepared the ark for 120 yrs through the baptism “man” and animals escaped a demonic angelic manipulated environment And was given a new beginning along with all the accompanying blessings... John a man, who prepared for Jesus by water baptism. Also there is the baptism by cloud and ark that carried the Jews a cross the desert for 40 yrs a supernatural 🖐 a covering, with all of the blessings. Man prepare through water 💦 and walking with God towards his Will The Holy Spirit he the King of Glory Come and breath his Holy Spirit into you.. “O” Be Lifted Up “O” Be LiftedUp “Ancient of Gate” Be lifted up So that the King of Glory can come in Who is the King of Glory The Lord Mighty In Battle THE LORD ALMIGHTY Ambassadors of Christ are truly Kings of the Lord Almighty serving Jesus Christ the One ☝️ who sit on the Throne of David, right hand 🖐 of God ... Holy Kings of The LORD ALMIGHTY . King’s of Christ Jesus, with Lord Jesus Covering and Authority God The King Of Glory blesses the heart of His Children with His Holy Spirits discerning Eyes 👀 to See and Ears👂 🎵. to Hear 💫⭕️🌀......🎵 🎵 🎵 🎵 🎵 🌀😇🔥 🔥🌪🌬💨✝️☁️ ☁️ ☁️🔔⛅️ 🌬✝️🎵🌨🌨 🌨⛈🌨 🔥😇🌀🌍🌩💙🌈💦 King James Bible Hosea 4:6 My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge: because thou hast rejected knowledge, I will also reject thee, that thou shalt be no priest to me: seeing thou hast forgotten the law of thy God, I will also forget thy children two paths one is the kings highway 🔥✝️🌪 John 3:29 ESV The one who has the bride is the bridegroom . (The friend of the bridegroom, who stands and hears him, rejoices greatly at the bridegroom's voice) Therefore this joy of mine is now complete God bless

  • @brentmathie3271

    @brentmathie3271

    2 жыл бұрын

    Crown The word Christos (=Christ), is used in the Septuagint, it is the Greek equivalent of the Hebrew word ha-Mashiach (the Messiah), "the anointed one". how the Bible describes a king appointed 😊 anointed by God The Advent for The bride body of Christ 🔥🌪🌬💨✝️ 🔔 🎵🌧 To the Church in Philadelphia …10Because you have kept My command to persevere, I will also keep you from the hour of testing that is about to come upon the whole world, to test those who dwell on the earth. 11 (I am coming soon). Hold fast to what you have, so that no one will take your ( Crown ) 12The one who overcomes I will make a pillar in the temple of My God, and he will never again leave it. Upon him I will write the name of My God, and the name of the city of My God (the new Jerusalem that comes down out of heaven from My God) and My new name.

  • @brentmathie3271

    @brentmathie3271

    2 жыл бұрын

    prophetic appointed anointed warrior prophet, priest KINGS OF THE COMING KINGDOM Of CHRIST King James Bible rev:3:11 Behold, I come quickly: hold that fast which thou hast, that no man take thy ( Crown ) Revelation 2:28 And I will give him the (Morning Star). 29 He that hath an ear, let him hear what the Spirit saith unto the churches. Zephaniah 1:14 The Great Day Of The LORD is near, it is near, and hasteth greatly, even 🎵 ( THE VIOCE ) of 🎵 The Day Of The LORD: 🎵 ( The Mighty Man SHALL CRY THERE BITTERLY ) 11 He that hath an ear let him hear what the Spirit saith unto the churches; He that overcometh shall not be hurt of the second death

  • @brentmathie3271

    @brentmathie3271

    2 жыл бұрын

    Colossians 1:27 to whom God willed to make known what is the riches of the glory of this mystery among the Gentiles, which is Christ in you, the hope of Glory. Ephesians 1:9-10 He made known to us the mystery of His will, according to His kind intention which He purposed in Him with a view to an administration suitable to the fullness of the times, that is, the summing up of all things in Christ, things in the heavens and things on the earth. In Him 1 Corinthians 15:51-53 Behold, I tell you a mystery; ( we will not all sleep ) but we will all be changed, in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trumpet; for 🎵 The Last Trumpet Will SOUND 🎵 🎵 and the dead will be raised imperishable, and we will be changed. For this perishable must put on the imperishable, and this mortal must put on immortality. Revelation 10:7 but in the days of (The Voice) 🎵of the seventh angel, when he is 🎵 ( about to sound, ) 🎵 🎵 then the mystery of God is (finished), as He preached to His servants the prophets

  • @brentmathie3271

    @brentmathie3271

    2 жыл бұрын

    King James Bible It is the glory of God to conceal a thing: but the honour of kings is to search out a matter Geneva Bible of 1587 The glorie of God is to conceale a thing secret: but the Kings honour is to search out a thing. Bishops' Bible of 1568 (25:1) It is the glory of God to kepe a thing secrete: but the kynges honour is to searche out a thing. Coverdale Bible of 1535 It is the honor of God to kepe a thinge secrete, but ye kinges honor is to search out a thinge. Translations from Aramaic Peshitta Holy Bible Translated It is the glory of God that hides the word, and the glory of the King that seeks for the word. Lamsa Bible It is the glory of God to keep secret a matter; but the glory of the king is to search it out.