When God created the angels, were the angels given a choice to follow Him? Satan was once an angel, but he rebelled. Are angels still given a choice? I thought human beings were the only ones to have choices?<\/p>\n\t
“For if God did not spare the angels who sinned, but cast them down to hell and delivered them into chains of darkness, to be reserved for judgment<\/em>” (II Peter 2:4).<\/p>\n
“And the angels who did not keep their proper domain, but left their own abode, He has reserved in everlasting chains under darkness for the judgment of the great day<\/em>” (Jude 6).<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
Since sin is transgressing the law (I John 3:4), it is clear that angels do have free choice.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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