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Reference is made in the Book of Isaiah, chapter 6, to seraphim (sing: seraph or Hebrew, śārāf), who were part of God's retinue and it seems they were six-winged creatures of fire. Keel and Uehlinger (Gods, Goddesses and Images of God in Ancient Israel) note that mythological four- and six-winged cobras are found in Egyptian mythology and even in Israel, and that the Hebrew name for cobras and the mythological variety is śārāf ('the one that burns'). They say that the seraphim found in Isaiah can only be viewed as the same mythological serpent creatures. Seraphim should not be thought of as angels in a specific Jewish or Christian sense, but as part of an ancient Near Eastern culture that Israel shared with Egypt and other neighbouring nations. They were not evil, as Isaiah 6:3 tells us: "And one cried unto another, and said, Holy, holy, holy, is the Lord of hosts: the whole earth is full of his glory." They simply reflected late pre-Exilic Jewish belief.
Christian tradition has seen Seraphim become a class of angels, along with Cherubim, Thrones, Dominations, Virtues, Powers, Principalities, Archangels, and (lowest of all) simple 'angels'.
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we believe that good and evil do exist (Isaiah 45:7). We believe that good exists in order for us to strive for it (Isaiah 1:17) and thereby gain closeness to God. Evil is explained as: existing in order to test us (for example, Deuteronomy ch.13), or: existing in order to humble us or to prepare us (in the form of suffering) for the next world, or: as a result of poeple's actions, bad choices and misdeeds. See also the K'li Yakar commentary on Deuteronomy 11:26.
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