I was told that angels have no free will, that we humans alone were granted that privialge The choice to love god. Could I please get a Bible Verse for this.
2007-06-26 18:06:18 · 13 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Well most of you are pointing out what was confussing to me. I too was trying figure out how Satan was suppose to of rebeled if they had no free will. I just wanted to make sure.
2007-06-26 18:17:08 · update #1
Hebrews 1:7
In speaking of the angels he says, "He makes his angels winds, his servants flames of fire."
Hebrews 1:6-8 (in Context) Hebrews 1 (Whole Chapter)
Hebrews 1:13
To which of the angels did God ever say, "Sit at my right hand until I make your enemies a footstool for your feet" ?
Hebrews 1:12-14 (in Context) Hebrews 1 (Whole Chapter)
Hebrews 1:14
Are not all angels ministering spirits sent to serve those who will inherit salvation?
Hebrews 1:13-14 (in Context) Hebrews 1 (Whole Chapter)
Hebrews 2:2
For if the message spoken by angels was binding, and every violation and disobedience received its just punishment,
Hebrews 2:1-3 (in Context) Hebrews 2 (Whole Chapter)
Hebrews 2:5
[ Jesus Made Like His Brothers ] It is not to angels that he has subjected the world to come, about which we are speaking.
Hebrews 2:4-6 (in Context) Hebrews 2 (Whole Chapter)
Hebrews 2:7
You made him a little lower than the angels; you crowned him with glory and honor
Hebrews 2:6-8 (in Context) Hebrews 2 (Whole Chapter)
Hebrews 2:9
But we see Jesus, who was made a little lower than the angels, now crowned with glory and honor because he suffered death, so that by the grace of God he might taste death for everyone.
Hebrews 2:8-10 (in Context) Hebrews 2 (Whole Chapter)
Hebrews 2:16
For surely it is not angels he helps, but Abraham's descendants.
Hebrews 2:15-17 (in Context) Hebrews 2 (Whole Chapter)
Hebrews 12:22
But you have come to Mount Zion, to the heavenly Jerusalem, the city of the living God. You have come to thousands upon thousands of angels in joyful assembly,
Hebrews 12:21-23 (in Context) Hebrews 12 (Whole Chapter)
These are the verse that state Angels are God's messengers. The angels must have had some choice the other verses I saw on this hunt were saying that Lucifer was an angel and rebelled so they have to have some but they are placed a little lower than us...
2007-06-26 18:19:06 · answer #1 · answered by Abbasangel 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The angels may not agree with that idea. What I know is that God does not want to live with robots and puppets. The angels have free will. Incidentally, that free will is in line with God's will. Loving God is natural to them. We are here to really prove that we are able to align our will with His will so that we can become like angels in heaven. Why should we even think of going back to heaven if we can not align our free will with His? We will only cause Him too much trouble. We can make all the trouble that we want elsewhere, not in heaven.
The choice not to love God is a wrong choice and I do not think of that as privilege. God originally blessed us the privilege to see only what is right: love, light, life, happiness, freedom, everything that is right. But we chose to see the other side: hate, darkness, death, sadness, bondage, everything that is wrong, by eating the forbidden fruit.
2007-06-27 01:38:47 · answer #2 · answered by PabloSolutin 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The first angel to excerise his free will was Lucifer. (Isaiah 14:12-14( Also Ezekiel 28:12-17)
How art thou fallen from heaven, O Lucifer, son of the morning! how art thou cut down to the ground, which didst weaken the nations!
For thou hast said in thine heart, I will ascend into heaven, I will exalt my throne above the stars of God: I will sit also upon the mount of the congregation, in the sides of the north:
I will ascend above the heights of the clouds; I will be like the most High.
God created the Angelic Relam as well as Adam and Eve, with two abilities.
(1) With the ability to act independantly of His Will
(2) With an ability to have spontanous fellowship with him.
Jude 1:6; And the angels which kept not their first estate, but left their own habitation, he hath reserved in everlasting chains under darkness unto the judgment of the great day.
2007-06-27 01:19:45 · answer #3 · answered by n_007pen 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
What the angels don't have is the ability to come back to God after they left it. And what they also don't have is flesh, like we do. They also do not have the inheritance that we are to have through Jesus Christ by adoption.
Angels have freewill, as Lucifer had his and those who rebelled with him. They chose awful wrong. So there is no chapter and verse for what you are asking for, because it's not true.
2007-06-27 01:12:59 · answer #4 · answered by Christian Sinner 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
no Bible verse for this.
angels are created with a choice too. lucifer chose to rebel against God.
"How art thou fallen from heaven, O Lucifer, son of the morning. How art thou cut down to the ground, which didst weaken the nations.....For thou hast said in thine heart, I will ascend into heaven, I will exalt my throne above the stars of God: I will sit also upon the mount of the congregation, in the sides of the north." (Isaiah 14:12-13).
2007-06-27 01:12:48 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Job 1:6 called sons of God to all angels , also Job 2:1,God don´t have robots as a sons.
2007-06-27 01:11:35 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Angels do have free will. How do you account for Lucifer/satan and the angels, that went with him, deciding to go against God. They had to have a free will to do that.
2007-06-27 01:16:44 · answer #7 · answered by julie 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
They have free will. That is why Lucifer chose to rebel and a third of the angels as well. Angels do not have access to salvation as we do.
2007-06-27 01:12:29 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
There's no Bible verse for this. It's Islamic propaganda.
Lucifer was an angel and he rebelled against God. There you go.
2007-06-27 01:09:31 · answer #9 · answered by Craig R 6 · 1⤊ 2⤋
'FREEWILL' is one of the GREATEST GIFTS God has given to his creation.
If his creation don't have freewill, then they're like robots. How could they be accused of sinning if they don't have freewill?
Let's read a verse that proves that point.
2 Peter 2:4
"For if God spared not angels when they sinned, but cast them down to hell, and committed them to pits of darkness, to be reserved unto judgment; "
Let's read 1 Corinthians 6:3
"Know ye not that we shall judge angels? how much more, things that pertain to this life? "
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2007-06-27 02:04:10 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋