Angels becoming devils because of hurt and disappoinment?

[teresa_mrg]

How many little angels out there turn to be little devils because of deep hurt and disappointment? Is it fully their faults then?

 

[Et_Cetera]

I’m not trying to be rude, so if I offend you, then please just tell me to stop posting in your thread. If you’re an adult who is familiar with the natural world, then how do you believe that such a thing takes place? “Angels” and “devils”…it’s all just metaphorical.

 

[teresa_mrg]

sorry if i didn’t make it clear enough and used metaphors.
basically i only meant “good people” becoming “bad people”

 

[bkayw]

*“Angels” and “devils”…it’s all just metaphorical. *

Wrong

How can you read Sacred Scripture and believe angels are metaphorical?

 

[Et_Cetera]

Oh, haha, it’s fine. I’d say that a highly negative environment can in certain cases lessen one’s culpability. For example, abusive parents, extreme poverty, etc. must really warp someone’s worldview.

 

[puzzleannie]

How many little angels out there turn to be little devils because of deep hurt and disappointment? Is it fully their faults then?

angels out where? the rebellion of the angels and their fall from grace was a one time event. angels are not turning into devils now, and the rebellious angels did not “turn into” anything they simply rejected God utterly and completely for all eternity, and the description of their condition and activity is devil. their greatest victory over humans, their enemy is convincing humans that the devil does not exist.

 

[chaunceygardner]

sorry if i didn’t make it clear enough and used metaphors.
basically i only meant “good people” becoming “bad people”

There is a great story by O. Henry, called “The Guilty Party”, that describes a young girl who lost her mother and was neglected by her father. She was visibly hurt by this, took to the streets, and ended up killing someone in jealousy and then jumping into the river and was drowned. She was brought before the “judge” in heaven where the “prosecutor” considered her case “open and shut”, obviously guilty and destined for eternal punishment. The “judge” saw it differently, however, and found her innocent and told the “prosecutor” to bring in the true guilty party.

We can see many instances of those who were mistreated, neglected or misdirected as children extending similar abuse to the next generation. Whose fault is it? Some of the blame, if not the bulk of it, must be shared by those who caused it or allowed it to happen.

Yes what you describe can and does happen, and conversely “bad people” can be influenced and can change to become “good people”. Some of our most revered saints were such as those.