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Scripture Speaks of a Sin of these Angels. 269 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." 270 The dEvil "has sinned from the beginning"; he is "a liar and the Father of lies". 271