How is it possible that lucifer and other angels revolted against God if they did not have free will?
2007-12-11 07:11:21 · 20 answers · asked by Jake B 2 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
The liberal media and left wing lunatic wackos used lies and deceit to trick the poor angels into protesting the War God was making on mankind in the garden of Eden, somewhere in Iraq, near the Euphrates River. The angels were unpatriotic liberals who revolted against the legal authority of all mighty God and consequently, President Bush had them picked up and put in detention centers scattered throughout the earth. He reserved enhanced interrogation techniques for the worse angel-terrorist of them all: the scientists and atheists and anybody who thought the world was older than 6000 yrs old. God bless George W Bush.
2007-12-11 07:18:06 · answer #1 · answered by ? 6 · 6⤊ 8⤋
This was all explained in the 3 books of Enoch which were removed from the Bible in the 2nd century at the same time that the Gnostics were being persecuted and murdered by the christians.
The gnostic view was that in a God-created universe there could be no free will. The only way for God to create freewill was to withdraw from the Universe and leave a void in which the angels could choose one way or another. 1/3 chose to go with God and give up free will, 1/3 chose to finish the undone parts of creation - they are now Satans' entourage, and one third chose to teach mankind the truth about God and creation, but in so doing became mortal, even tho they could live a very long time. Most of these are now gone.
Lucifers revolt wasn't about opposing God but about finishing what God had left undone in the universe. Unfortunately, even though Lucifer did the best he could, he was no match for the powers of God and so the world is imperfect on a spiritual basis.
God is still absent from the universe because that is necessary to maintain free will here. The path to return to him is now extremely limited because the angels who stayed to help us are now mostly gone themselves.
2007-12-11 07:33:19 · answer #2 · answered by steve what 3 · 5⤊ 1⤋
Human philosophy and theology have not offered a better explanation of the origin of evil than that given in the Bible. What the Scriptures say about Satan is fundamental to understanding the origin of evil and of human suffering, as well as why the worst imaginable violence gets worse each year.
Some may ask: 'If God is the good and loving Creator, how could he create a wicked spirit creature like Satan?' The Bible lays down the principle that all of Jehovah God's works are perfect and that all of his intelligent creatures are endowed with free will. (Deuteronomy 30:19; 32:4; Joshua 24:15; 1 Kings 18:21) The spirit person who became Satan must, therefore, have been created perfect and must have deviated from the way of truth and righteousness by deliberate choice.—John 8:44; James 1:14, 15.
2007-12-11 07:27:16 · answer #3 · answered by atti_cat 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
THE monarch of a mighty empire cannot believe his eyes. Three men sentenced to a fiery destruction are rescued from the jaws of death! Who has saved them? The king himself says to the three so delivered: “Blessed be [your God], who sent his angel and rescued his servants that trusted in him.” (Daniel 3:28) This Babylonian ruler of over two millenniums ago was an eyewitness to an angelic deliverance. Millions of people in the past believed in angels. Many today not only believe that angels exist but also feel that their own lives in some way are affected by angels. Who are the angels, and what is their origin?
According to the Bible, angels are spirits, just as God himself is a Spirit. (Psalm 104:4; John 4:24) The angelic family is large, numbering into the millions. (Revelation 5:11) And all of them are “mighty in power.” (Psalm 103:20) Though angels are like humans in that they have personality and are given free will, they did not begin their lives as humans. In fact, God created angels long before mankind’s appearance—even before the creation of planet Earth. When God “founded the earth,” says the Bible, “the morning stars [angels] joyfully cried out together, and all the sons of God began shouting in applause.” (Job 38:4, 7) Since the angels are God’s creation, they are called the sons of God.
2007-12-11 07:18:08 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 3⤋
According to Islam, Lucifer (Shaytan) was a jinn (aka genie). Jinn are made from fire, angels are made from light. Jinn are like human beings in that they have free will but do not have physical bodies.
2007-12-11 07:32:59 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
It is an illusion that Angel's don't have free will, the christian archetypical angels are supposedly under the orders of god - It was actually the falling in love with us subordinate humans that got Satan cast out from heaven according to the lore of the bible and the other fallen ones are those who loved us enough to want to reside with us - they also encouraged the development of free will in humanity - cruel god that would create humans to have them as pawns and then cast out those who loved his creation so much to help them fulfil their potential??
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2007-12-11 07:20:45 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 2⤋
Who told you they don't have free will? They do have free will, just like us. that's how satan revolted, and took with him 1/3 of the angels.
2007-12-11 07:15:38 · answer #7 · answered by byHisgrace 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
If angels have freewill why would God need man to have freewill?
If god created created the angels and they rebelled, why didn't he learn from that experience?
2007-12-11 07:19:00 · answer #8 · answered by Pirate AM™ 7 · 3⤊ 1⤋
Who said angels don't have free will?
2007-12-11 07:21:40 · answer #9 · answered by dewcoons 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
He didn't really revolt, it just looked like that to humans. It's all in Gods plan. In Christian mythology anyhow.
I mean the Christian God IS all-knowing right?
2007-12-11 07:18:58 · answer #10 · answered by great_wiccan_god 2 · 1⤊ 1⤋