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The holy angels are without a sinful nature. Humans have free will but they struggle with sin because the human nature has been corrupted by sin.

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This is why all humans sin Romans 512 and find it much more difficult to be good than to be bad.

. Its difficult to say when human beings ever made a really free decision because our decisions are conditioned by factors not under our control such as our upbringing emotions. They are not inclined toward sin but rather toward righteousness doing everything. This quote from 2Peter 24 refers to some of the angels sinning.

In the Middle Ages angels were seen as interesting cases for discussions about free will. For if God did not spare the angels when they sinned but condemned them to the chains of Tartarus and handed them over to be kept for judgment. Philosopher Tobias Hoffmann explores this topic in his recent research.

We can also see that they did have free will by the fact that some chose to rebel against God and others chose to remain faithful.

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