Simply follow the logical progression:
- If man is the only created being made in God’s image and given free will, then man is the only one who can use that free will for good or for bad, for right and for wrong, for compliance with God as well as against God’s will. Only man is capable of committing “sin” or “missing the mark”.
- If angels have not been given free will, then angels cannot go against their Creator’s will; in fact they are most commonly depicted as messengers of God who are sent on errands, protecting and guiding humans and carrying out God’s tasks. So if angels cannot commit sin, then they cannot fall; so there are no such beings as “fallen angels” headed by the supposed leader Satan/Devil/Lucifer.
- Encyclopedia: The Bible uses the terms מלאך אלהים (mal’akh Elohim; messenger of God), מלאך יהוה (mal’akh YHWH; messenger of the Lord), בני אלהים (b’nai Elohim; sons of God) and הקודשים (ha-qodeshim; the holy ones) to refer to beings traditionally interpreted as angels. Later texts use other terms, such as העליונים (ha’elyoneem; the upper ones).
- If so, where does the belief in fallen angels come from? Certainly not from the Hebrew Bible although the New Testament is full of them. Therefore, if angels cannot sin and cannot fall, then there is no such place as “hell” for them to go to, to torture and torment human beings who were not “saved” by belief in Christianity’s Savior.
- Encyclopedia: This conception of angels is best understood in contrast to demons and is often thought to be “influenced by the ancient Persian religious tradition of Zoroastrianism, which viewed the world as a battleground between forces of good and forces of evil, between light and darkness.”
- So if there’s no “hell” for evil people to suffer for eternity, what happens to them? Where do they go?
- Is there no judgment, where righteous believers in YHWH are rewarded, while the unrighteous are punished for all eternity?
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