The Problem of Evil: Why Is There Evil if a Good God Exists? | Prof. Gloria Frost
The Thomistic Institute
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The First Sin of the Angels
The traditional view on the angels is that they do have free will. The key way that they differ from us is that they don't have bodies like we're bodily creatures and they're just purely immaterial. So it's a great puzzle like why do they send if they're so smart and they have no passions to you know persuade them towards sin. And so they do have freedom and it was an act of free will by which they committed that first sin, unlike us. We always are free at any time to turn back towards God even after we sin but angels however their existence is different from ours.
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