The Apostles' Creed professes that God is "creator of heaven and earth” and the Nicene Creed makes this more explicit. God is the “maker of heaven and earth, of all things visible and invisible.”
Quoting Psalm 148:1, St. Augustine notes that the creation of “the things of Heaven’ includes the creation of the angels who are the ‘partakers of the eternal Light which is the immutable Wisdom of God’ (City of God, XI, 9). St. Augustine notes that ‘angel’ is the name of their function or office and not of their nature. “In respect of what they are, such creatures are spirits; in respect of what they do, they are angels” (En. in Ps 103, 1, 15). The word angel means ‘messenger.’ As St. Stephen replies to his accusers, “You received the law as transmitted by angels, but you did not observe it” (Acts 7:53). St. Paul writes that the law “was promulgated by angels at the hand of a mediator” (Galatians 3:19). These ministering spirits “always look upon the face” of our Heavenly Father (18:10) and are described as “mighty in strength” “attentive” and “obedient” to God’s every command, “ministers who do God’s will.” (Psalm 103:20).
Come learn more about this ‘invisible’ realm which includes God’s ministering spirits at the upcoming BHI on the Rocks talk, Angels and Demons, by Scott McKellar, Director of the Bishop Helmsing Institute. Wednesday, February 15th.
Scott McKellar
