CCC 392
Profession of Faith›SECTION TWO I. THE CREEDS›CHAPTER ONE I BELIEVE IN GOD THE FATHER›Paragraph 7. THE FALL
Scripture speaks of a sin of these angels. This "fall" consists in the free choice of these created spirits, who radically and irrevocably rejected God and his reign. We find a reflection of that rebellion in the tempter's words to our first parents: "You will be like God." The devil "has sinned from the beginning"; he is "a liar and the father of lies".
Footnotes
- Cf. ⇒ 2 Pt 2:4.
- ⇒ Gen 3:5.
- ⇒ I Jn 3:8; ⇒ Jn 8:44.