To the Editor: Pete Lowentrout says that black folk who play angels in movies perpetuate a racial stereotype because angels lack free will and “are, in effect, slaves to God” (Letters to the ...

DEAR DR. GRAHAM: Where did the devil come from, according to the Bible? I remember hearing somewhere that at first he was an angel and served God, but then he rebelled and became evil. Is this ...

In general, though, Lucifer (or Satan, or the Devil) is considered by Christians to be a fallen angel who rebelled against God at some point and was cast out of heaven.

The idea of Lucifer as a rebel possibly worthy of admiration, a ruler of his own realm (however dark and sulfurous), is absolutely Miltonic. Prior to Milton’s poem, representations of Lucifer ...

I thought God created the angels, but maybe Satan also created some. Is that possible? — C.P. A: Angels are spiritual beings who were created by God to do ... Some angels rebelled against God ...

Charismatic and sympathetic, Milton's Satan leads a rebellion against God and rails against what he perceives as the tyranny of heaven — little wonder, then, that he has often been interpreted ...