No, the pagan gods could not have been archangels.
Angels are spirit beings that do God’s will. The word “angel” comes from the Greek word meaning “messenger”. The Bible makes it clear that angels do the Lords will and obey His command. Thus, angels and archangels will not do anything that would lead people to worship them as gods. Bless the LORD, O you his angels, you mighty ones who do his word, obeying the voice of his word! -Psalm 103:20 ESV I, John, am the one who heard and saw these things. And when I heard and saw them, I fell down to worship at the feet of the angel who showed them to me, but he said to me, “You must not do that! I am a fellow servant with you and your brothers the prophets, and with those who keep the words of this book. Worship God.” -Revelation 22:8–9 ESV What then could the pagan gods have been? I believe they were demons. Paul writes this in his letter to the believers in Corinth: No, I imply that what pagans sacrifice they offer to demons and not to God. I do not want you to be participants with demons. You cannot drink the cup of the Lord and the cup of demons. You cannot partake of the table of the Lord and the table of demons. -1 Corinthians 10:20–21 ESV Demons are supernatural, superhuman beings. Being fallen angels, their mission in life is to prevent people from following God and prevent Christians from living for God and sharing the Gospel of Christ. Being supernatural and superhuman, they can do things that blow our minds and that we cannot comprehend. Thus, I posit that many of the pagan gods were demons that appeared and did something which caused the people to believe they had come in contact with a “god” and thus worshipped the demon as a god. I also believe that there are “gods” that are creations of human minds as an attempt to answer or explain a natural phenomena that they could not understand. -Daniel-
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