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To: unlearner

I thought the Bible made it clear that Angels did not have free will. That free will was unique to mankind.

Then Satan and his Angel pals were created for the purpose of being a antagonistic force.

It’s clear that God wanted to test humanities free will, why else would he tell them to not eat from the tree of knowledge? That wouldn’t be a good enough test, so he had to make something that would tempt them. They failed. But why test it if you knew the outcome? There are a lot of plot holes.

I’m not saying I don’t believe, but I do have questions. Lots of them.


60 posted on 10/15/2017 2:43:17 PM PDT by FreedomStar3028 (Somebody has to step forward and do what is right because it is right, otherwise no one will follow.)
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To: FreedomStar3028

“I thought the Bible made it clear that Angels did not have free will.”

That’s funny. There are a few things that are very clear in the Bible. And there are many things that are very difficult to understand. But I would not even begin to know where such an idea of angels having no free will originated.

“Then Satan and his Angel pals were created for the purpose of being a antagonistic force.”

Impossible. God is not the author of evil.

How would God hold anyone accountable for actions for which they are not responsible, but He is?

It is because we and angels ARE accountable for our actions that they carry moral weight.

Would a just God cast Satan into a place of torment forever because Satan did exactly what God made him to do?


71 posted on 10/15/2017 3:01:13 PM PDT by unlearner (You will never come to know that which you do not know until you first know that you do not know it.)
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To: FreedomStar3028

‘But why test it if you knew the outcome?’

shh, you’re not supposed to ask questions like that on this forum...haven’t you learned that yet...?


100 posted on 10/19/2017 11:10:00 AM PDT by IrishBrigade
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