Can Fallen Angels Be Redeemed?

[rr1213]

Christ sacrificed himself on the cross to redeem the fallen human race. Does Scripture or Tradition teach whether there is the possibility of redemption for those angels who rebelled against God?

 

[Fidelis]

Christ sacrificed himself on the cross to redeem the fallen human race. Does Scripture or Tradition teach whether there is the possibility of redemption for those angels who rebelled against God?

From the Catechism of the Catholic Church:

**THE FALL OF THE ANGELS **

391 Behind the disobedient choice of our first parents lurks a seductive voice, opposed to God, which makes them fall into death out of envy.(266) Scripture and the Church’s Tradition see in this being a fallen angel, called “Satan” or the “devil”.(267) The Church teaches that Satan was at first a good angel, made by God: “The devil and the other demons were indeed created naturally good by God, but they became evil by their own doing.”(268)

**392 **Scripture speaks of a sin of these angels.(269) This “fall” consists in the free choice of these created spirits, who radically and irrevocably rejected God and his reign. We find a reflection of that rebellion in the tempter’s words to our first parents: “You will be like God.”(270) The devil “has sinned from the beginning”; he is “a liar and the father of lies”.(271)

**393 **It is the irrevocable character of their choice, and not a defect in the infinite divine mercy, that makes the angels’ sin unforgivable. “There is no repentance for the angels after their fall, just as there is no repentance for men after death.”(272)

266 Cf. Gen 3:1-5; Wis 2:24.
267 Cf Jn 8:44; Rev 12:9.
268 Lateran Council IV (1215): ds 800.
269 Cf. 2 Pet 2:4.
270 Gen 3:5.
271 1 Jn 3:8; Jn 8:44.
272 St. John Damascene, De Fide orth. 2,4: PG 94,877.

 

[Divine_mercy]

So, My layman’s interpretation:

Angels had “Full Knowledge” of what they where doing and the consequences. Because of this “Full Knowledge” there cannot be redeemed.

But all this being said, I also believe that Anything is Possible through God!

My :twocents:

 

[RobedWithLight]

The greater clarity of the angelic intellect compared with that of a human’s makes their sin far more inexcusable than that of a human being, whose judgment is often clouded by the limitations and weaknesses of flesh. Hence their choice, their rebellion, once made, is made forever.

 

[FCEGM]

So, My layman’s interpretation:

Angels had “Full Knowledge” of what they where doing and the consequences. Because of this “Full Knowledge” there cannot be redeemed.

But all this being said, I also believe that Anything is Possible through God!

My :twocents:

If our opinion and the Church’s teaching aren’t as one, then guess who has more change in his pocket?

While now neither the good angels nor the bad angels (Satan and the other fallen angels) have no choice, at the instant of their creation they did have free choice to choose God or to choose away from Him. Since they are spirit-creatures that choice was irrevocable.

Certainly God’s mercy is greater than our imaginings; but the
point of such speculation is moot since we do have the doctrine of Christ’s

Church on the finality of being in Hell:

(From the Council of Constantinople, 543 A.D.) : “If anyone holds that the punishment of demons and of impious men is temporary, and that it will have an end at some time, or that there will be complete restoration of demons and impious men, anathema sit.”

Please see, too, the Catechism, nbrs. 1034, 1035, 1036, 1037.

 

[exoflare]

no.

 

[exoflare]

To be more specific, I’m not sure where if anyplace scripture touches on the subject. But in any case it’s known that redemption for fallen angels is not possible.

 

[water]

As other poster said that angels were full of knowledge.

One point I could look at is that they deny God’s Love - the Holy Spirit - which is from the Father and the Son.
Those fallen angels could not be redeemed because they are against the Holy Spirit. This sin can never be forgiven.

Another point is that if fallen angels got punished to be in Hell and saved back to Heaven, then any souls could be saved as well.

I don’t think God will let it happen.

He is Love but also very Just.

 

[rr1213]

Very interesting. The CCC provisions cited by Fidelis seem to be directly on point to the question from the position of the Catholic Church. Thanks.