How will Christians judge the angels?

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I was speaking with a funadementalist the other day who was accusing Catholic’s of worshiping idols. I simply said that that’s not true. He said “but you said ‘Hail Mary.’” I opened up his very own King James bible to Luke 2:28, which says:

Quote:
And the angel came in unto her, and said, Hail, thou that art highly favoured, the Lord is with thee: blessed art thou among women.

Of course I pointed out that Gabriel addressed Mary with a ‘Hail.’

Then he starts mumbling on “yea but that’s in a different context when an angel says it, we’re going to judge the angels.” That was pretty much the whole conversation, it got interuppted. I remembered reading that we will judge the angels. I’m not quite sure what it means, but it’s 1 Corinthians 6:3. There is a possible argument here that Gabriel WAS guiltry of idolotry, that I put together in my head, I don’t even think he realized it, I honestly think he was just mumbling on. The argument is, if we are going to judge the angels, then Gabriel could have been wrong by saying Hail to Mary. I could easily see him using that if he thought of it. I know, it’s ridicoulous, but is there a good intellectual argument I can use if he pulls that on me? Otherwise it’s just my word against his.

Here is an interesting note from the Barnes Commentary:

1 Corinthians 6:3

“Know ye not that we shall judge angels? how much more things that pertain to this life?”

[Shall judge angels] The sense is, “Christians will be qualified to see the justice of even the sentence which is pronounced on fallen angels. They will be able so to embrace and comprehend the nature of law, and the interests of justice, as to see the propriety of their condemnation. And if they can so far enter into these important and eternal relations, assuredly they ought to be regarded as qualified to discern the nature of justice ‘among men,’ and to settle the unimportant differences which may arise in the church.” Or, perhaps, this may mean that the saints shall in the future world be raised to a rank in some respects more elevated than even the angels in heaven. (Prof. Stuart.) In what respects they will be thus elevated, if this is the true interpretation, can be only a matter of conjecture. It may be supposed that it will be because they have been favored by being interested in the plan of salvation-a plan that has done so much to honor God; and that “to have been” thus saved by the “immediate and painful” intervention of the Son of God, will be a higher honor than all the privileges which beings CAN enjoy who are innocent themselves.
(from Barnes’ Notes, Electronic Database. Copyright (c) 1997 by Biblesoft)