Showing posts with label Redemption. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Redemption. Show all posts

Sunday, November 17, 2013

The Fallen Angels

During our group projects today Adelae brought up a great point about archangels and the question of whether they can still repent and be saved or if that is a salvation only possible for humans in Milton’s Paradise Lost. I wanted to know, from a perspective of someone who is not as informed on religion as most, if you guys think Satan could be saved if he had ever decided to repent? There are two different sides the way I see it. The first would be that there has to be a line somewhere that defines the savable from the un-savable. I feel as though Satan has crossed that line multiple times so he does not deserve to be saved should he so choose. But then again, God is the almighty and powerful. So does that mean Satan can be saved since God has the capability to forgive those that do wrong? And then, do all the other fallen angels like Beelzebub and Mammon have a chance for redemption when none of them seem particularly interested in bowing down to God’s grace? I am having a hard time distinguishing from the strength of God’s capability to forgive, and the certainty of how I feel they should be forever condemned.