Why do angels have wings or do they really?

“So that they can keep a watch over us and be our guardian angel” says Andy, age 9
There’s a practical personal reason for angelic wings, says Vicki, 10: “So they can use them as blankets when they are cold.”

Actually, it’s not temperature or gravity. Speed is why angels need wings, “so they can be guardians for us even when we are in cars and on roller coasters!” says Hillary, 11.

Everyone’s wrong, says Adrienne, 8: “I don’t think angels have wings. I think people just made wings on model angels just for a decoration.”

Andrienne says that angels don’t have wings. She must be wrong because most gift shops have little angel images for sale, and they always have wings. Everyone has seen Christmas plays where the winged angel announces to the shepherds in the field that Jesus is born.

Even though our tradition says that angels have wings, we must look in the Bible to see if it is correct. A simple Bible search of the words “wings” and “angels” reveals that the two do not appear in the same verse.

Andrienne’s idea that someone put wings on a model is probably not far from the truth.
Bible mentions two types of angels that have wings “Cherubims” and “Seraphim” the two highest orders of angels. So it is clear that there are few angels that possess wings.

But why do angels being spirit would require wings to fly? But it is also mentioned that in few places the angles are called as men because they look like men! But they don look exactly like men…I believe that our guardian angels do not have wings. Only the Superior angles may have who are involved in worship and praise of God. I suspect that angels depend on their wings to fly.

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