Prior Book | Prior Chapter | Prior Verse | Next Verse | Next Chapter | Next Book | Viewing NASB and Amplified 2015 | |
NASB | 2 Peter 2:4 ¶ For if God did not spare angels when they sinned, but cast them into hell and committed them to pits of darkness, reserved for judgment; |
AMPLIFIED 2015 | 2 Peter 2:4 ¶ For if God did not [even] spare angels that sinned, but threw them into hell and sent them to pits of gloom to be kept [there] for judgment; |
Subject: were angels saved by works? |
Bible Note: Dear DL5, Your answer is indeed simple, however, I would feel more comfortable with it if you had provided a scriptural foundation. 1) Satan was the first created being to commit an evil act, but, the bible does not support the notion that creatures are able to create something out of nothing. Aside from that, what makes you think that "evil" is a created thing? 2) While it is true that the elect angels did not rebel, the question is: Did they not sin because they were elected by God? Or, were they elected by God because they did not sin? 3) To me at least, it appears to be apparent that God placed the Tree of Knowledge in the garden as part of His eternal purpose, which was to have His Son save a people who would love and serve Him throughout eternity. I don't believe that the "Tree" was created after the fall of the angels for this reason: Gen 1:31 God saw all that He had made, and behold, it was very good. And there was evening and there was morning, the sixth day. "We do not know precisely what their sin entailed—it was doubtless some act of willful rebellion against God—or precisely when they lapsed into sin, but at the end of Genesis 2, the events of which come within the sixth day of Genesis 1, God pronounced that all that he had made was "very good" (Gen 1:31); therefore, it would seem that the angelic fall had not yet occurred. But at the beginning of Genesis 3 we find the Tempter enticing Eve to sin against God. So apparently Satan and his angels fell at some point in the period of time between Genesis 2 and Genesis 3." (Robert L. Reymond) John |