So satan was an angel.?

Question

Angels don't have free will. So how did he rebel?

Can you guys decide whether he was an angel, archangel, or jinn?

Answer 1

Angels do have free will
Angels and men, as intelligent and free creatures, have to journey toward their ultimate destinies by their free choice and preferential love. They can therefore go astray. Indeed, they have sinned. Thus has moral evil, incommensurably more harmful than physical evil, entered the world. God is in no way, directly or indirectly, the cause of moral evil. He permits it, however, because he respects the freedom of his creatures and, mysteriously, knows how to derive good from it:

Answer 2

Satan is an archangel and was one the most beautiful and intelligent of the archangels. He had free will and decided not to serve God and left taking many angels with him. He made a choice.

Answer 3

Keep asking question - there are answers.

Satan was a Jinn, he ruled the heavens for ten thousand years over the angels and other Jinn. Jinn are beings created from smoke/fire and have free will. When Adam was created, Satan was ordered to bow to Adam. He said; "What, this creator created of mud is better than me created of fire - never am I bowing to him." Thus satan became disobediant to God and fell. Satan never refused to bow to God - just man.

Jinn, are all about us, and they are both good and bad as there are good and bad humans. Psychic's fall in with the bad ones to achieve their talents - they do so with the awarness of giving up so much.

If your heart is pure and the senses of the heart activated, you may see. Do not not ask or invite jinn - it is not something to play with. If it opens after purification of the heart - you will find protection to deal with it - otherwise - back off.

You will get many answers from people's imaginations. We are looking for the truth, yes?

Satan, is just doing his best to prove he was right not to bow to man. He is your enemey. Seek refuge in God alone.

Peace

Answer 4

Yes. He was called Lucifer, he was cast out of God's presence for rebellion. Angels do have free will.

To me, angels are either people who have lived that are now assigned to watch over someone, or spirits who have yet to be born, and are watching over things in heaven. We are all given free will, even before we were born. God gave us all a chance to make choices, probably in preparation for what we would do on earth.

Yes, Satan was an angel. He was an arch-angel even, so he was one of the ones who were closest to God. He knew the plan that God had for all of us, and for Christ, but he didn't like it. He rebelled because he wanted the spot of Christ, and wanted all the glory from doing it. He wanted to force us to obey God, and not give us any free will. That is against everything that God stands for, so his plan was shot down. That made him mad, so he rebelled, was thrown out of heaven along with 1/3 of the hosts of heaven- other spirits waiting to come to earth to get bodies. Those are the ones that follow him and do his bidding. They have free will, in the fact that they choose to cause us problems and try to make us turn from God.

Answer 5

Angels don't have free will? Hmm.. Where exactly did you get that? Satan a.k.a Lucifer was the archangel. He had free will and he had too much pride (much like atheists these days) so he was banished from heaven.

I'm agnostic, by the way.. I don't believe in manmade KNOWLEDGE nor FAITH.

Answer 6

Yes he was, and Angels do have Free will.
Jesus said to his opposers of Jewish descent: “If God were your Father, you would love me, for from God I came forth and am here. . . . You are from your father the Devil, and you wish to do the desires of your father. That one was a manslayer when he began, and he did not stand fast in the truth, because truth is not in him. When he speaks the lie, he speaks according to his own disposition, because he is a liar and the father of the lie.” (John 8:42, 44)
" and he did not stand fast in the Truth".. obviously he was in the truth at one time.. therefore he left the TRUTH, which denotes choice, which denotes free will.

Answer 7

If Lucifer could rebel, then I think the other angels have free will as well.

Answer 8

Who said they don't have free will? I would say they do. And that our existence here has a great deal to do with our trusting God to the point that our free will doesn't put us in the same boat as scumbag satan. Take care and may God bless you spiritually.

Answer 9

Satan wasn't an angel ....... he was a Jinn. Jinn, like humans, also have free will, this explains why he was able to rebel.

"And (remember) when We said to the angels; "Prostrate to Adam." So they prostrated except Iblees (Satan). He was one of the jinns; he disobeyed the Command of his Lord. Will you then take him (Iblees) and his offspring as protectors and helpers rather than Me while they are enemies to you? What an evil is the exchange for the Zalimoon (polytheists, and wrong-doers, etc)."
( سورة الكهف , Al-Kahf, Chapter #18, Verse #50)

(Iblees (Satan)) said: "I am better than he, You created me from fire, and You created him from clay."
( سورة ص , Sad, Chapter #38, Verse #76)

"(Allah) said: "What prevented you (O Iblees) that you did not prostrate, when I commanded you?" Iblees said: "I am better than him (Adam), You created me from fire, and him You created from clay."
( سورة الأعراف , Al-Araf, Chapter #7, Verse #12)

"(Allah) said: "(O Iblees) get down from this (Paradise), it is not for you to be arrogant here. Get out, for you are of those humiliated and disgraced."
( سورة الأعراف , Al-Araf, Chapter #7, Verse #13)

"(Allah) said (to Iblees) "Get out from this (Paradise) disgraced and expelled. Whoever of them (mankind) will follow you, then surely I will fill Hell with you all."
( سورة الأعراف , Al-Araf, Chapter #7, Verse #18)

Answer 10

You would wonder why? Didn't God see it coming, since he knows all. And yes it would explain angels having free will.