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Angels cannot interfere with our freewill or the freewill of anyone else. Therefore whoever among the angels has revolted against God eg Lucifer did so of their own free will.

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2541 regrettably chose to rebel against God.

. This is the clearest example in all the Bible of what is called today a territorial spirit. Thus although God created everything that is Satans choice to rise up against God sprung entirely from Satans own volition 2 Timothy 226. One of the most basic texts there are about angels and Christians is Hebrews 11314.

But you have come to Mount Zion and to the city of the living God the heavenly Jerusalem and to innumerable angels in festal gathering Daniel 121 ESV 6 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful At that time shall arise Michael the great prince who has charge of your people. They have no independent agency. The reason the messenger of God was detained is because a spiritual being called the prince of the kingdom of Persia stood against him.

This means one-third of the angels decided to sin and became fallen angels demons. Angels are not automatons any more than human beings are. They sinned and will face a dire fate as a consequence of their actions Matthew 2541.

Ultimately the holy angels have free will but the Bible makes it clear they will not sin. This is not something they can do without. No angels cannot be saved Jesus did not become an angel to fulfill the law of the kinsman redeemer goel to save angels He became a man to save men.

Angels possess the knowledge that man only acquired following the sin in the Garden. The opposite of this view would be that such irrational preferences and suicidal choices should be called freedom Based on this definition only those who are born again have free will. Do angels have Free Will like humans or are they just automatons.

Angels do or at least did have free will. Four Ways Angels ServeLink. Angels - Free Choice.

And the reason this angelic messenger got free from this opposition was because the angel Michael came to help him. Likewise angels are beings created higher than humans Hebrews 27. 124 led by the devilSatan Matt.

They are not subject of. 4 For if God did not spare angels when they sinned but sent them to hell putting them in chains of darkness to be held for judgment. One third of the angels Rev.

As you can read here in article 3 Aquinas defends the proposition that angels have free will. If they did not have free will then they could not have sinned because one of the requirements to sin is that it is a free choice to reject God. Humans also have free will but unlike the angels we have been corrupted by our sinful nature so sin is a part of us Romans 512.

Heres the first one. Keep your life free from love of money and be content with what you have for God in Christ has said I will never leave you nor forsake you So we can confidently say The Lord not angels is my helper. Angels do not have this sinful nature and the holy ones in heaven do not sin Revelation 2127.

Angels minister to the saints. But lets get more specific with four texts that give us glimpses of what angels do and why they exist. When Satan chose to stop obeying and worshipping God and vaunted his own pride that was a free choice with the consequences that followed.

And behold the angels of God were ascending and descending on it. Some have taken up a misconception that angels are like Gods robots and do only what He wants them to. Yet the matter is not so straightforward.

This is seen in the angels choice to love and serve God when the Good Lord created them. One third of the angels chose to follow him. We are charged with the mission of completing the world.

We cannot ask the angels to intercede in anothers life or alter their soul plan. Yes angels had just as free a will as Adam. They are not inclined toward sin but rather toward righteousness doing everything that pleases God.

Rather they desire to honor and worship God and. Job seems to indicates that all the angels morning stars were created at the same time so all the angels were created in unconfirmed creature holiness. As such angels also possess the free will to either obey God or abandon Him.

This is not the mission of angels. The holy angels have a choice to sin just as Jesus did while He was on earth but like Him they do not sin. Angels are active throughout the Old Testament for the sake of Gods people.

What can man do to me So the New Testament position seems to be this. Angels do not act upon this knowledge because they do not have free will. Their charge is to do HaShems bidding without choice.

If they can sin then they have free will to do so. January 9 2015. Angels are however supernal beings.

Yes angels have free will like us. Actually the Christian perspective is that angels do possess free will. Given the choice to serve God or follow Lucifer one out of every three willingly chose the latter.

I will not fear. Reformed theologian and Desiring God founder John Piper is weighing in on a line in the New Testament that has boggled the minds of many what Scripture means when it says Christians will judge angels In response to a question Monday from a podcast listener who asked him about what the Apostle Paul meant when he asked the Corinthian. United in the power of God Michael and the good angels vanquished the fallen angels from the heavenly realm Rev.

It is free when it is liberated from preferring what is infinitely less preferable than God and from choosing what will lead to destruction. This quote from 2Peter 24 refers to some of the angels sinning. However if that was the case Lucifer could not have rebelled against God nor could 13 of the angels of Heaven rebel with him.

This indicates that angels have free will. This ties in with 2 Peter 24 as well referencing the angels as being able to sin. For example He Jacob dreamed and behold there was a ladder set up on the earth and the top of it reached to heaven.

Whoever among the angels remained obedient to God eg Michael Gabriel did so of their own free will. In order to do that we must have to choice to do good in the face of evil for the purpose of fixing the physical world. Please consider the reason for our free choice.

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