I don't understand what happened with the angels. It seems that even some of the atheists believe in demons or the bad angels. When God created angels in heaven and gave them free will, some of them became too powerful and challenged God wanting to be Gods themselves. They became demons. They're supposed to be God's attendants and messengers in our world, but what were they doing in heaven before Genesis? What kind of power did they have to make some of them turn against God?
Then they're described as being soldiers. Did they really fight a war on earth?
Not "some of them" but "one of them" did fall "from grace" yes.
They are called the 7 archangels of the Book Of Enoch.
Wiki has a good summary of all this:
Seven Archangels - Wikipedia
Difficult to trust wikipedia and any student who uses it for a source would have their paper downgraded if I was a teacher. (The only things I look at are their links.)
They have a strong liberal bias and do not want to promote things not conducive to their views. The owner used to run a porn site. I had an update deleted from their site on an unrelated matter a couple days ago. Had nothing to do with religion or politics, but sports.
It's not just wikipedia, but dictionary.com with the liberal bias. Imagine a dictionary ha ha.
Compare what written in conservapedia --
Angel - Conservapedia . I don't think there is a complete answer to my question. Maybe I should read Dante's Paradisio again for the angel parts ha ha. My angel is Raphael.
>>In Heaven, God and his Angles were already in existence.<<
This is the part I have a question on. What were they doing and what caused them to become divided? We have a general picture of what happened in the Garden of Eden and why humans were created. The picture is not so clear why angels were created and what they were doing in heaven before humans. I ask because in the agnostic or atheist crowd, they are those who would believe in demons and God as evil than God as good. It's a common story line among liberal Christian interpretation. (Here's an example of this and I'll use the liberal wikipedia to demonstrate --
The Last Temptation of Christ (film) - Wikipedia .
>>Wiki has a good summary of the 7 days of creation.<<
Wikipedia lies calling it a myth. If blasphemy is the same as the worst sins of humankind, then I figure the wikipedia people will end up at the lowest level. Probably the liberal interpretation-ists of the Bible will as well, i.e. those who take advantage of Christians and then turn around and preach God as evil or dismiss God as myth. I am not sure if the lake of fire is for torture or 24/7 pain, but it doesn't like a pleasant situation to be in. I think it's more of feeling woe, grief and regret. Of course, it could be torture and pain of burning but that seems like something the Roman Catholics made up back in the day.
So does conservapedia.
"The fifty chapters of the book of Genesis can be divided into two parts: the early, primeval history of man from the
Creation to the fall of the
Tower of Babel (Genesis 1-11), and the
Patriarchal History of Israel from
Abraham and his son
Isaac, grandson
Jacob, and Jacob's sons, primarily
Joseph (Genesis 12-50), although there is a continuous genealogy connecting both parts.
The Creation
For more detailed treatments, see creation week, creation story, and Biblical creation account.
In the beginning, God created the heavens and earth. This is one of the most famous statements in the Bible, and it starts the account of God's creation. Genesis 1:1 through 2:3 involved the first seven days in history:
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- The first day, the creation of the heavens and the Earth, and light (Genesis 1:1-5 ).
- The second day, the creation of a "firmament" or expanse, separating the waters (Genesis 1:6-8 ).
- The third day, the creation of dry earth and plant life (Genesis 1:9-13 ).
- The fourth day, the creation of the Sun, the moon, and the stars, to mark the seasons (Genesis 1:14-19 ).
- The fifth day, the creation of the creatures of the sea and the fowl of the air (Genesis 1:20-23 ).
- The sixth day, the creation of the animals of the land, and the creation of Man (Genesis 1:24-31 ).
- The seventh day, on which God rested from his task of creating (Genesis 2:1-3 ).
The rest of chapter 2 through to the end of chapter 4 tell the story of Adam and Eve, the
Garden of Eden, and Adam and Steve's sons
Cain,
Abel, and
Seth.
The fall of mankind into
sin began when the serpent questioned one of God's commands, namely not to eat of the
tree of knowledge of good and evil, and convinced Eve to eat the fruit, followed by
Adam. The result of disobeying this command resulted in the driving away of Adam and Eve from the Garden to live a life of subsistence farming, and eventually dying. Eve was additionally cursed with painful childbearing, and to be subservient to Adam. All of these curses were also applied to Adam and Eve's descendants.
Genesis 3:15 is cited as being the first reference to the coming
Messiah.
Chapter 5 is a
chronogenealogy from Adam to
Noah and his sons."