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You and I are a union of body and soul. Our souls are where our rational intellect and free will reside, but our souls depend on our bodies to retrieve all necessary data. Like the memory in a brand-new computer, a soul begins life on earth with a totally clean and blank intellect and needs input from your keyboard (your body). As the body transmits that data to the soul, humans gain what is called acquired knowledge.

Angels have no bodies, so they cannot acquire knowledge; they need infused knowledge. Whereas you and I learn each day and extrapolate more from that knowledge, angels know everything at the moment of their creation. Their knowledge is gained all at once, and their will makes one choice that lasts for all eternity. In other words, angels cannot change their minds after they have made a decision. Unfortunately, some of the angels in heaven made the decision to turn away from God.