Is religious talk about angels and devils part of a serious mental illness?

or:Is religious talk about angels and devils part of a serious mental illness?or:*** Who Are the Demons? \u201cAngels That Sinned\u201dWhen God cre

or:Is religious talk about angels and devils part of a serious mental illness?

or:*** Who Are the Demons? \u201cAngels That Sinned\u201dWhen God created spirit creatures, he made them free moral agents, able to choose for themselves whether to do good or bad. Sadly, after the creation of humankind, an undisclosed number of angels chose to do bad by rebelling against God.The first and most infamous spirit to rebel became Satan. \u201cHe did not stand fast in the truth,\u201d said Jesus Christ. (John 8:44) What moved Satan to turn against God? He began to covet the worship that belongs exclusively to the Creator, and then he acted on that desire by setting himself up as a rival god. In this way he made himself \u201cSatan,\u201d a word that means \u201cresister.\u201d Centuries later, prior to the Flood of Noah\u2019s day, other angels joined Satan, forsaking their heavenly position to materialize in human form and dwell on earth. (Genesis 6:1-4; James 1:13-15) When the Flood occurred, the materialized \u201cangels that sinned\u201d apparently returned to the spirit realm. (2\u00a0Peter 2:4; Genesis 7:17-24) In time, they came to be called demons.\u2014Deuteronomy 32:17; Mark 1:34.The disobedient angels now found themselves in a very different situation from the one they had enjoyed before rebelling. Jude\u00a06 reads: \u201cThe angels that did not keep their original position but forsook their own proper dwelling place [God] has reserved with eternal bonds under dense darkness for the judgment of the great day.\u201d Yes, God did not allow the demons to enjoy their former privileges in heaven but consigned them to figurative \u201cpits of dense darkness,\u201d cut off from all spiritual enlightenment.

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