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  • From: Peter Kirk <peter AT qaya.org>
  • To: Shoshanna Walker <rosewalk AT concentric.net>
  • Cc: b-hebrew AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [b-hebrew] b-hebrew Digest-angels
  • Date: Tue, 05 Sep 2006 22:23:45 +0100

On 05/09/2006 20:55, Shoshanna Walker wrote:
Men and angels are different beings. Men have the choice of free will - to obey or disobey G-d. Angels do not. They have no free choice. They are not human beings. They just do what G-d tells them to do.

Nowhere did it say that Satan disobeyed G-d, and there is nowhere in Tanach that any angel disobeyed G-d, or did anything of its own decisions.

Not in Job 1:8-12 and 2:3-6, if Satan is an angel. for Satan is shown as taking the initiative in proposing a course of action, although he requires God's permission to carry it out. Similarly with the snake in Genesis 3:1-5, where God's permission may be implicit. These are the action of a being with free will making his own decisions. Anyway, anything else makes God the author of evil.

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Peter Kirk
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