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Originally Posted by dknightx
Ok that last part was a pointless rant, but seriously, what differentiates humans and angels? where is the biblical support for angels having/needing/being given free will?
I think the difference is that angels are celestial (meaning unclear to me, exactly, but I've taken it to mean that they are spirit only and non-physical) beings and humans are physical beings.
References in scriptures to angels sinning:
2 Peter 2:4 (KJV)
4For if God spared not the angels that sinned, but cast them down to hell, and delivered them into chains of darkness, to be reserved unto judgment;
Jude 1:6 (KJV)
6And the angels which kept not their first estate, but left their own habitation, he hath reserved in everlasting chains under darkness unto the judgment of the great day.
The implication that I take from angels sinning is that they must have free will in order to do so.