Many like to ponder God's love and it is great. But, does it extend to angels? Two texts prompt this question.
Hebrews 2:5 It is not to angels that he has subjected the world to come, about which we are speaking. 16 For surely it is not angels he helps, but Abraham’s descendants.
According to John 15, dying for another is the greatest expression of love. Hebrews teaches that Jesus did not die for angels and they will not be redeemed. I infer from this that God does not have the same love for angels as he does for men. While they may have great power, they are still servants of God and man. We have inherited the rights of sons of God.
Galatians 4:6 Because you are his sons, God sent the Spirit of his Son into our hearts, the Spirit who calls out, “Abba, Father.”
I wonder, must one have a soul to receive the loving gift of God's Spirit living in them? Genesis 1:27 says men were created in the image of God. I read this to not be a physical image but a spiritual image, that man has a soul that can contain God's Spirit.
While I am at it, I might as well also ask do angels have souls? I think not, or at least not like we have.
John 15:13 Greater love has no one than this: to lay down one’s life for one’s friends.
Hebrews 2:5 It is not to angels that he has subjected the world to come, about which we are speaking. 16 For surely it is not angels he helps, but Abraham’s descendants.
According to John 15, dying for another is the greatest expression of love. Hebrews teaches that Jesus did not die for angels and they will not be redeemed. I infer from this that God does not have the same love for angels as he does for men. While they may have great power, they are still servants of God and man. We have inherited the rights of sons of God.
Romans 8:15 The Spirit you received does not make you slaves, so that you live in fear again; rather, the Spirit you received brought about your adoption to sonship. And by him we cry, “Abba, Father.”
Galatians 4:6 Because you are his sons, God sent the Spirit of his Son into our hearts, the Spirit who calls out, “Abba, Father.”
I wonder, must one have a soul to receive the loving gift of God's Spirit living in them? Genesis 1:27 says men were created in the image of God. I read this to not be a physical image but a spiritual image, that man has a soul that can contain God's Spirit.
While I am at it, I might as well also ask do angels have souls? I think not, or at least not like we have.