2007-02-01 19:11:25 · 10 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
im getting responses from my other question about sinning in heaven and they say its impossible, so does that mean there wasnt a war
2007-02-01 19:14:39 · update #1
i dont know what to believe now, if there was a war then how is it not possible to sin when there was a war isnt that a sin
2007-02-01 19:16:50 · update #2
dr. brooke i think you have won the response of the day award
2007-02-01 19:17:50 · update #3
that doesnt really work for me the last ent
2007-02-01 19:23:16 · update #4
According to Dogma... yes!
Lucifer got restless and started his little war for the throne. Heaven became divided into two factions - the faithful and the renegades. The ethereal planes were chaotic with battle, angel against angel. And when it was all over, God cast the rebels into perdition.
2007-02-01 19:12:54 · answer #1 · answered by ZER0 C00L ••AM••VT•• 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It was some what of a civil war so to speak. Or you could call it a rebellion. Lucifer was once the most beautiful angel in heaven, but he was just a bit conceited. He thought he could be better than God and tried to take over heaven. God didn't like that idea, so he cast Lucifer and 1/3 of the angels who were rebelling with him, down here to earth. He changed Lucifer's name to Satan and now the "fallen" angels are called demons. The Bible doesn't actually give much details or specifics as to what all went on or how long it took. I guess that is just another one of those things we will just have to find out when we get there.
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In response to your question about sin, this war happened before Adam & Eve were in the garden and ate of the fruit of the knowledge of good and evil. As far as I understand, when a Christian dies, their body is burried and their spirit is "sleeping". They are waiting for the glorious appearing of Jesus Christ that is commonly referred to as the rapture. At that time, the dead in Christ will rise and the living Christians will join them and go to heaven for 7 years during the tribulation time. At the end of the 7years, Christ will return to defeat the Anti-Christ at the battle of Armagedon. There will be a great white throne of judgement, where Jesus will judge everyone who has ever lived. At the end of this judgement, those who He rejects will be cast into the lake of fire / hell with Satan and all of his demons. A New Jerusalem will arise and we will dwell there for 1000 years. During this 1000 years, there is to be no sin, because the evil one and all who follow him are no longer among us. And God is creating a New Heaven for us to spend eternity in. Now for some reason that is beyond my finite little mind, at the end of the 1000 years, God gives Satan a second chance and lets him out of hell for a little while. I don't get it, but maybe God being omnipotent, full of grace and mercy, knows something we just can't understand. Perhaps a 1000 year "time out" in hell is enough to make Satan repent. Who knows. But any way, after all of this, all the people who have believed that Christ was the Messiah, repented of their sins, and asked Him to be the Lord and Master of their life will spend eternity in a brand new, never been used heaven where there is no sin.
2007-02-02 03:21:08 · answer #2 · answered by pwacheri 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The story of Satan being cast out is Isaiah 14:12-14 and Ezekiel 28:13-19.
The war in heaven is yet to come, Revelation 12:7.
2007-02-02 03:25:28 · answer #3 · answered by great gig in the sky 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
There was a rebellion, yes. By "war" if you mean to say that Satan had any possibility of winning whatsoever, the answer is no.
EDIT Ah, I see where you are going. Angels are created beings that were around long before we were. Angels chose to rebel before God and a third of them fell and became demons. Humans, when we reach Heaven, will be in glorified and perfected bodies, in fact the Bible tells us we will somehow be over the angels.
So angels, in their original form, were capable of sin, yes, but humans in Heaven, in our glorified bodies, will not be capable of it. See the difference?
2007-02-02 03:14:47 · answer #4 · answered by Last Ent Wife (RCIA) 7 · 3⤊ 0⤋
Yes
2007-02-02 03:14:15 · answer #5 · answered by Gifted 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes. But there are very limited references to it in the Bible.
http://www.christadelphians.com/biblebasics/d21warinheaven.html
2007-02-02 03:17:03 · answer #6 · answered by retzy 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
there was a was in heaven. God bannished Satan in to the depths of darkness in this battle.
2007-02-02 03:24:04 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
never try to make sense of religion or get a coherent answer from a believer - it just isn't going to happen.
2007-02-02 03:15:54 · answer #8 · answered by Brookie Wookie 1 · 2⤊ 3⤋
yes there was
2007-02-02 03:15:20 · answer #9 · answered by purpleaura1 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
no.
2007-02-02 03:13:54 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋