by robsia » June 3rd, 2006, 2:01 pm
According to the Bible, God can hideangels from our view. In the story of Balaam's donkey, the donkey could see the angel but Balaam could not until "God opened his eyes".
But clearly, in the eyes of those who wrote the Bible, angels and presumably demons, can take both physical and non-physical form, although I have my own theories on that. There are tales of them smply disappearing from sight. But, again, that just means they could not be seen, not necessarily that they were not there - Balaam's donkey again.
But ghosts are in the image of dead people and cannot take physical form at will therefore ghosts and angels are not the same thing.
Unless ghosts are angels pretending to be dead people and in their non-corporeal form, which is odd. Why would they do that?