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Did the angels who fell with Lucifer ever have a clear reason for why they rebelled? (hexbear.net)

submitted 2 years ago by Magician@hexbear.net to c/christianity@hexbear.net

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I'm sorry if this is isn't the appropriate comm, but I'm curious about why the angels sided with Lucifer in a fight they knew they would lose?

Were there things Lucifer said to get angels on his side or did they just follow his example and refuse to subjugate themselves to humanity? Was there any context like that in the Bible?

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[–] Magician@hexbear.net 6 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I keep forgetting about the nephilim. In my head I thought the nephilim came after the fall. Goliath was one, right?

Is there like a clear biblical timeline? I always understood the sequence of events as -

God created the universe > angels > earth > Life besides humans > Adam > Lilith > Eve in that order.

Lucifer and the angels were commanded by God to prostrate themselves to Adam/humans.

Lucifer refused to do so, and with him, gathered a number of angels to challenge God.

He failed where he was cast into hell and the others were exiled from heaven.

The cast out angels intermingled with humans making nephilim like the giant Goliath.

I know a lot of that is probably very wrong, but I learned a lot of it from a bad community.

[–] plinky@hexbear.net 5 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

I think lilith is non-christian or very esoteric real-old-testament-heads stuff.

My understanding is that finding love with women forced angels to fall - as in, they were not fallen beforehand, because they are referred to as sons of heaven shrug-outta-hecks . But this all could be some translations shit.

But to your main topic, i don't think any angels are referred explicitly as following main baddie. It's all conjuration, cause demons suddenly appear in new testament as malevolent spirits