Billy And Horton Reaction Paper

Horton: Horton describes angels as heavenly servants who were created to serve God. Angels minister to people, watch over believers, and learn the truths of God’s unfolding mystery in Christ. Horton believes that God brings angels into existence and they have the ability to choose whether to follow God or not. “The fallen angels are not treated as evil by creation but as followers of Satan in his mutiny” (407). Horton speaks of Satan as the most angelic angel, but became prideful and planned to overtake God. Satan was then casted from heaven and plotted to destroy all of those that follow God. Horton explains to us that all of those people that follow God will be attacked by Satan and his demons. Bray: Bray wants us to look at is whether …show more content…
He also shares with us the different groups of angels that are believed to be in the spiritual realm of the angels. The main part that we will focus on that Berkof is talking about is the service of the angels and the evil angels or demons that he talks about. There are two types of service that Berkof describes for the angels which is ordinary and extraordinary service. According to Berkof, the first ordinary service the angels do is praise God day and night. There are other acts of ordinary service they do as well. “Since the entrance of sin into the world they are sent forth to minister to them that are heirs of salvation, they rejoice at the conversion of a sinner, watch over believers, protect the little ones, are present in the Church, learning from her...” (147). The extraordinary that the Angels serve us with is mediating special revelations of God, communicating blessings from God, and executing his judgement to his enemies. There are also three parts to the evil Angels that Berkof shows us. He wants us to look at their origin, their head, and their activity. The evil Angels were not created evil according to Berkof, but they had a choice to become evil just as we have a choice to accept Christ. Their head is obviously Lucifer who had the greatest power under Christ who tempts man and causes him to sin. Next we will look at their activity. "While …show more content…
All three believe that God brought angels into existence and that they serve him in different ways. Horton and Berkof speak of the angels as having a choice and that the fallen angels or demons had a choice and chose to fall from God and follow Satan who was the most angelic of the angels. Bray seems to focus more on our ability to be in contact with the angels and demons, but states that we cannot be in relationship with them because of what a relationship would