If angels dont have free will, then why does satan have free will?
928795
he's the james dean of angels.  rebel, rebel with a cause.  hehehe...
929913
An argument could be made -- a yin yang comparison.  Even from a more traditional Judaeo-Christian perspective, since god is omnipresent, couldn't he be both god and satan?  A method of introducing free will, perhaps.
365895
Satan was the most beautiful angel that was created to serve God. But he got proud and thought he could be like God... be God. So God banished him and all his followers from Heaven. He is still on the earth because humans had to have freedom of choise.
1094951
In a fallen world (which this is) free will is almost equated with sin - you can't eradicate sin and still have free will.
259091
Because it is not necessarily God's will. He created us all and gave us all free will. Also, Satan is the one who is in charge of the bad things that are happening to us all! But, I think that God can(and does) use some bad things that happen to us and he turns them into a test...I think that it is mostly a test of faith. Hope this helps!
1007209
I would have to say the reason that fallen angels, or rather demons can't be saved is because they were up their in heaven with God, they have seen Him, know his power and yet denyed him! why would God give them a second chance, we on the other hand have not yet seen God, we will someday, and we are created in the image of God and were given a choice to love him or not, regardless of the fact that Jesus died for everyone of us.\n\nI hope this helped.
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Angels were created 4 His pleasure. To worship Him and praise Him. They were here before we were.Satan it says in the Bible was the praise & worship leader of Gods heavenly choir. His angelic name was Lucifer.\n\n One day satan started to wonder why he wasn't considered an equal to our Creator. Then he started to question Gods authority over him and over the other angels and he began to rally them against God. One third of the angels he convinced to war against God. And the way satan became evil was a little sin called Pride. Through out all of this God never interfered.\n\n I think God was waiting for Lusifer to repent. God loves all his creations until He cant reach them anymore. He waited until satan & his followers came agaist Him ready to battle. Ofcourse God won and cast him down to the earth.\nAll of this occurred before man was created. \n\nI belive that the reason GoD gives us all free will,angels included, is because He is a good parent. I am a mother and I know that I have to let my children make mistakes so that they will, with my guidence, become the kind of adult that I can be proud of & welcome into my home forever. But when they choose not to be good, and I know that I cant reach them anymore, I will cast them out of my house. It will break my heart but I must do it to show the others in my house or the other ones that want to be a part of my house, that that sort of bahavior will not be tolerated. \n\nBecause a parent must love all thier creations, we let them have free will. Understand? Read the Bible and you will see many ways that He has loved us.
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I was always told that God allows evil because He is all about free will and doesn't want to impose himself on us. God allows us to see Him if we chose to see him and he will leave us alone if we don't. As for the evil thing, i beleive that evil comes from your inability to resist temptation. Satan doesn't make you do anything, he just suggests it.  You do the rest.
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According to Jewish belief Satan is an angel, he was never thrown out of heaven and is not in competition with "God". According to Judaism Satan does the job assigned to him by "God", has no free will of his own and works for the ultimate benefit of humans by strengthening their faith and fortitude through adversity and temptation. Satan is not a bad guy, according to Judaism. \n\nAnd Judaism should be the authority on the subject.\n\nIf you're interested in a good book on the subject, read "The Devil: A Biography" by Peter Stanford. He describes how Satan went from an angelic messenger of God's to the villainous demon created by the Christian church to scare people to conversion.\n\nIt's incredible to me how ignorant Christians are on the subject of Satan.\n\nFrom the site http://www.faqs.org/faqs/judaism/FAQ/06-Jewish-Thought/section-36.html\n\n<The word satan means challenger. With the leading ha- to make haSatan, it refers to /the/ challenger. This describes Satan as the angel who is the embodiment of man's challenges. Satan works for G-d. His job is to make choosing good over evil enough of a challenge so that it can be a meaningful choice. Contrast this to Christianity, which sees Satan as God's opponent. In Jewish thought, the idea that there exists anything capable of setting itself up as God's opponent would be considered overly polytheistic--you are setting up the devil to be a god or demigod.>
382521
Our freewill was created by Jehovah.  He wants people to serve him because they want to serve him, because they love him.  He doesn't want people to be programmed like robots and worship him because they simply were made that way.
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At that time, there had been no sin.  It was not Lucifer's temptation that was a sin, but that he acted upon it.  God gave the angel's free will, and they could choose to follow Him or not.  Lucifer, who was one of God's Archangel's (Lucifer means most beautiful) thought he was equal to God.  It was his rebellion that went against God, and subsequently the act of sin began.  \nSimilarly, man has free will, and we can choose to do what God asks, or not.  So the thoughts to do wrong exist, but it is what we CHOOSE to do that makes the difference.
917231
Wow, talk about looking at yourself.  That was me not too long ago.  The problem is that God can only interfere on a limited basis with out obscuring "free will".  The hard truth is that rapists and murderers have free will also.  It's complicated, and hard to justify. but I guess the better questions would be, why didn't  we do something about it?
309985
The answer depends on your beliefs in free will.  If you believe that God knows everything that is going to happen and has control over it then yes you are correct.  If you believe that God made us, but we have free will over our lives then he did not know what would happen.  The other theory could be that God gave us free will, but he already knew the choices that would be made.  It all depends on what you believe.
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The tree did not give us free will, we already had it, otherwise Eve would not have been able to make the choice of disobeying and eating from it in the first place. We were given free will so that we could love God by choice. Love by force would not really be love. Every time I see this question, though, the tree is almost always called "The Tree of Knowledge" rather than by its actual name. This is an important oversight if you are to understand.\n\nIt's the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil - a specific kind of knowledge, not ALL knowledge (something I think we can agree we do not have). Before Adam and Eve ate the fruit, they knew nothing but good because that is how they were originally created. When Eve ate of the tree, she had already sinned by disobeying God. Then, on top of that she introduced a knowledge of evil into her mind (as did Adam). As humans we are not able to resist evil completely. This is why God told them not to eat of the tree, because He knew that if they did, they would be tempted for the rest of their lives by the evil thoughts, ideas, and so forth that would be introduced by eating the fruit. He knew that we would not be able to resist evil all the time. So, He told them not to eat, but created them with the ability to make the choice themselves.\n\nWhen Adam and Eve ate of the tree, their minds were corrupted. This was passed on to their children and all other descendents in their blood and by their influence. \n\nHad they chose not to eat, they would still have had the knowledge of all that was good. God talked and walked in the garden with them, wanting to be close to them. They chose to try to "know as much as God", which was nothing more than the deception of the devil.
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Angels do the will of God only and cannot be summoned by a human for a human's pleasure or enjoyment, they can only be sent by God.  The angel in the Book of Revelation made it clear that angels were not to be worshipped in any way...only God.
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There is only ONE GOD and he has created everything there is. He is before time was, and He will be forever. The devil was once one of His highest ranking angels. Lucifer(the devil) was one of the most powerful angels and he thought that he should be worshiped. He was cast down from heaven and awaits judgment. During this time he is trying to get people to worship him. Those who worship the devil will be judged with the devil in the lake of fire. We should worship the ONLY GOD who sent his son Jesus Christ to take upon Himself our sins that we may not be judged. Those who reject Jesus will be judged, while those who believe in Him will have everlasting life. God is a just and mercifully God.
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you have free will to do what you want with the actions you are capable of doing.  you have the free will to jump in the air.  however gravity is in effect and will also play its part.  everyone's free will is dependent upon everyone else's free will.  you have free will to want the world to blow up.  if everyone else uses their free will to not want the world to blow up then you got out voted.  their free will trumped yours.  jump in the air all you want, gravity trumps you.\n\nyou can want to go to heaven all you want.  but if your spirit is at a level that cannot exist in heaven then your free will gets trumped.  and if you want to go to hell but your spirit is at a level that is far beyond that then you got trumped.\n\nyou can want all you want, but there are other forces at work that place limitations.  so your free will is mainly focused on your ability to make decisions.  doesn't mean you're just going to get your way.  it means that when faced with a situation you have the ability to choose how YOU respond, not necessarily to how others respond.