When were the angels created?

Which day?

Can't think of any resource (including the Bible) that answers that question with anything more than a guess.

Which day?

I'm not sure about what day, but they were created in the Jewish tradition during the Babylonian Captivity.  The concept was adopted from the Zoroastrians.

Grudem in his Systematic Theology has a few articles on the creation of Angels:

When Were Angels Created?  logosres:grudemest;ref=Page.p_401;off=2050

The Creation of the Spiritual Universe logosres:grudemest;ref=Page.p_264;off=2201

Which day?

 

I'm not sure about what day, but they were created in the Jewish tradition during the Babylonian Captivity.  The concept was adopted from the Zoroastrians.

No, they were referred to as the sons of El and other designations previous to the captivity--unless the Ugaritic tradition on the Syrian coast from c. 1200 BC picked it up from the 6th century Persian Zoroastrians too. Makes perfect sense!

Which day?

Job 38:4-7: "Where were you when I laid the foundation of the earth? Tell me, if you have understanding. Who determined its measurements—surely you know! Or who stretched the line upon it? On what were its bases sunk, or who laid its cornerstone when the morning stars sang together and all the heavenly beings shouted for joy?"

Sounds to me like they were created before the earth was. [:)]

Quite right. This thread was an invitation to a theological debabe from the get go. The original poster was being disingenuous by maintaining otherwise. This type of discussion follows a predictable pattern on this forum: The discussion gets bogged down in minute disagreements of interpretation, the posts become more vehement and heated, eventually sputtering into petty ad hominum abuse, while disinterested commenters wring their collective hands over the sad witness of Christians bickering in public. Better not to go there (again).

Renald Showers book on Angels is helpful:  He indicates that they were created on the first day of creation. 

The Time of Their Creation: The Bible does not give a clear, specific statement concerning when angels were created. However, the teaching of three passages, taken together, indicates the time of their creation.

The first passage is Job 38:6–7. It is important to note that it was God who spoke in this passage (see v. 1). He declared that when He created the earth, "the morning stars sang together, and all the sons of God shouted for joy" (v. 7). God thereby revealed that the morning stars/sons of God were already present to observe His act of bringing the earth into existence, and they were so impressed with this great work that they sang and shouted His praises. This declaration of God indicates that the morning stars/sons of God existed before the earth was created.

Who were these morning stars/sons of God? In attempting to identify them, we should note three things. First, the fact that they sang and shouted God’s praises indicates that the morning stars/sons of God were personal beings, not impersonal objects.

Second, the Book of Job is an Old Testament poetic book. A major characteristic of ancient Hebrew poetry was parallelism, where two lines express the same thought but through different words. The two lines "the morning stars sang together" and "all the sons of God shouted for joy" of Job 38:7 are an example of Hebrew parallelism; therefore, they express the same thought and do not represent two sets of beings.

Third, "the sons of God" were mentioned earlier in the Book of Job (1:6; 2:1). Scholars are convinced that in those passages and Job 38:7 "the sons of God" are angels. This means, then, following the poetic use of parallelism, that the expression "the morning stars" is also a reference to angels.

In light of what has been seen, it can be concluded that in Job 38:6–7 God revealed that the angels were already existing and present when He created the earth.

The second passage related to the issue of when angels were created is Exodus 20:11. There Moses declared that "in six days the Lord made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that in them is, and rested the seventh day." (The Hebrew text says "the heavens" [plural] "and the earth.") This statement is very significant because it indicates that within the scope of the six days of creation of Genesis 1 God created not only the heavens and the earth, but also all the different kinds of life forms that exist in the heavens, the earth, and the sea (see Gen. 2:1–4; Neh. 9:6).

The Bible indicates that the angels are a kind of life form that exists in the heavenly realm (1 Ki. 22:19; Ps. 103:19–21; Mt. 18:10; 22:30; 24:36; Lk. 2:13–15). As a result, Moses’ declaration in Exodus 20:11 is applicable to them. It strongly implies that the angels were created within the scope of the six days of creation of Genesis 1, not before or after those days.

The third passage that sheds light on the time when angels were created is Genesis 1:1 which states, "In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth" (the Hebrew text says "the heavens" [plural] "and the earth," exactly as does Exodus 20:11). Because Exodus 20:11 indicated that the heavens and the earth were created within the scope of the six days of creation of Genesis 1, it can be concluded that the creative activity of Genesis 1:1 took place within the scope of those same six days, not before or after those days.

In light of this, a reading of Genesis 1:1–5 prompts the further conclusion that those verses refer to the first day of the six days of creation.

In light of these passages, three strong conclusions can be made about the time the angels were created. First, they were created sometime before the creation of the earth (Job 38:6–7). Second, they were created within the scope of the six days of creation of Genesis 1, not before or after those days (Ex. 20:11). Third, God created the heavens and the earth on the first day of the six days of creation (Gen. 1:1).

Thus, the angels were created by God on the first day of the six days of creation, but before the earth was created on that same day. It is interesting to note the order of Moses’ statement in Genesis 1:1. He referred to the heavens first, then the earth. It would appear that early on the first day God created the heavens. Later on that day He created the angels to inhabit the heavens. Still later on the first day He created the earth in its undeveloped, uninhabited state.

Thus, the angels were created by God on the first day of the six days of creation, but before the earth was created on that same day. It is interesting to note the order of Moses’ statement in Genesis 1:1. He referred to the heavens first, then the earth. It would appear that early on the first day God created the heavens. Later on that day He created the angels to inhabit the heavens. Still later on the first day He created the earth in its undeveloped, uninhabited state.

Once again, you are overinterpreting. 

Once again, you are overinterpreting. 

I apparently underinterpreted. I thought John was presenting the view of Renald Showers for whom I find "Dr. Renald E. Showers holds degrees from Wheaton College, Dallas Theological Seminary, and Grace Theological Seminary. He has served on the faculties of Lancaster Bible College, Moody Bible Institute, and Philadelphia College of the Bible.".

I don't think too highly of Grace Theological Seminary since I briefly went to the college and wasn't favorably impressed with the theological faculty.  Then, as it says in the gospel "Can any good thing come out of Dallas?"  [;)]