Oorspronkelijk gepost door refo
Dit lijkt een omtrekkende beweging. Moet ik hier uit op maken dat er in de Bijbel geen aanwijzingen zijn dat DIABOLOS vroeger een engel was?
Pak een willekeurige dogmatiek. Ik heb dit even voor je gedaan, C. Hodge, omdat ik die ook op mn pc heb, zodat ik het niet hoef over te tikken. In de Index, zoek bij de A naar Angels, en dan naar 'fallen' of 'evel', en tjakka, een paginanr.
Lees maar, hierin worden meerdere tekstverwijzingen gegeven:
The Scriptures inform us that certain of the angels kept not their first estate. They are spoken of as the angels that sinned.
They are called evil, or unclean spirits; principalities; powers; rulers of this world; and spiritual wickednesses (i. e., wicked
spirits) in high places. The most common designation given to them is daimonej, or more commonly daimo,nia, which our
translators unfortunately render devils. The Scriptures make a distinction between dia,boloj and dai,mwn, which is not
observed in the English version. In the spiritual world there is only one dia,boloj (devil), but there are many daimo,nia
(demons). These evil spirits are represented as belonging to the same order of beings as the good angels. All the names and
titles, expressive of their nature and powers, given to the one are also given to the others. Their original condition was holy.
When they fell or what was the nature of their sin is not revealed. The general opinion is that it was pride, founded on 1 Tim.
iii. 6. A bishop, the Apostle says, must not be "a novice, lest being lifted up with pride he fall into the condemnation of the
devil; " which is commonly understood to mean the condemnation which the devil incurred for the same sin. Some have
conjectured that Satan was moved to rebel against God and to seduce our race from its allegiance, by the desire to rule over
our globe and the race of man. Of this, however, there is no intimation in Scripture. His first appearance in the sacred history
is in the character of an apostate angel. That there is one fallen angel exalted in rank and power above all his associates is
clearly taught in the Bible. He is called Satan (the adversary), dia,boloj, the traducer, o` ponhro,j, the evil one; the prince of
the power of the air; the prince of darkness; the God of this world; Beelzebub; Belial the tempter; the old serpent, and the
dragon. These, and simlar titles set him forth as the great enemy of God and man, the opposer of all that is good and the
promoter of all that is evil. He is so constantly represented as a personal being, that the rationalistic notion that he is only a
personification of evil, is irreconcilable with the authority of Scripture and inconsistent with the faith of the Church. The
opinion that the doctrine of Satan was introduced among the Hebrews after the Exile, and from a heathen source, is no less
contrary to the plain teachings of the Bible. He is represented as the tempter of our first parents, and is distinctly mentioned in
the book of Job written long before the Babylonish captivity. Besides this representation of Satan in general terms as the enemy of God, he is specially set forth in Scripture, as the head of the kingdom of darkness, which embraces all evil beings.
Man by his apostasy fell under the dominion of Satan, and his salvation consists in his being translated from Satan's kingdom
into the kingdom of God's dear Son. That the daimo,nia who are represented as subject to Satan, are not the spirits of
wicked men who have departed this life, as some have maintained, is clear. (1.) Because they are distinguished from the elect
angels. (2.) From its being said that they kept not theli first state (Jude 6). (3.) From the language of 2 Pet. ii 4. where it is
said God spared not the angels that sinned. (4.) From the application to them of the titles "principalities" and "powers," which
are appropriate only to beings belonging to the order of angels.
Trouwens ik wacht eerst de antwoorden van Memento af.
Deze week helaas geen tijd meer. Het schrijven van een stukje over deze onderwerpen (de val van de engelen, en een korte samenvatting van een theodicee) kosten een hoop tijd, zeker omdat ik de tekstverwijzingen die ik wil gebruiken slechts in mn hoofd heb zitten, en dát nog geeneens letterlijk, dus het gaat me ook nog tijd kosten om de juiste tekstverwijzing op te zoeken.
Maar de onderwerpen boeien me wel, dus ik ga er zeker (blew) wat over schrijven.
[Aangepast op 26/5/2005 door memento]