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1 | Fallen Angels-Why | Rom 1:21 | jbf | 136975 | ||
A tough question was posed to me and I do not know the biblical answer to it. If the angels knew God personally and were with him, why did several of them, Satan, rebel against him? Why did they become fallen angels when they knew God? I cannot find anywhere is the bible that they were given free will or made in his image as man was in the beginning. | ||||||
2 | Fallen Angels-Why | Rom 1:21 | Aixen7z4 | 136976 | ||
It may be that you have answered your own question. Men and angels can disobey God in spite of their knowledge of him. It might be said of the angels what was said of people: “Because that, when they knew God, they glorified him not as God, neither were thankful; but became vain in their imaginations, and their foolish heart was darkened" (Romans 1:21). We know that is what happened to their leader. And “How art thou fallen from heaven, O Lucifer, son of the morning! how art thou cut down to the ground … ! 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” (Isaiah 14). How vain in his imagination! I will not press the point about angels, because I frankly do not know that much about them. But it does seem evident that they were free to disobey God, since that is what they did. It is not clear to me whether the remaining angels, those who did not follow Satan, are still free to disobey God. But you have raised the related question: Why does man, after he has known God, turn around to disobey him? Indeed, it seems that it is the reason God condemns him. The times of ignorance God winks at (Acts 17) but Light has come into the world and yet men choose darkness rather than light. That is a strange thing. It is apparent that light only reveals our true condition. For that reason, some refuse to come to the Light. Men love darkness rather than light, because their deeds are evil, and they do not want to be confronted with the fact (John 3). They want to continue in sin without feeling guilty. Anyways, the angels know what they were doing and they did it anyway. That is why they will be banished to the blackness of darkness forever. Somehow, I think that God is kind to do that for them, because they would be very uncomfortable in the light. And it may be the same for people who do not accept Jesus. God brings them to the Truth (John 14:6) to the Light (John 1:9). If they reject him, then they will get to spend eternity with those angels. |
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