This seems to describe a humanity comprised of only demons or angels. Why is this not what we see in reality?
“This seems to describe a humanity comprised of only demons or angels. Why is this not what we see in reality?”
The argument would actually lend itself to conclude that we were all devils if left alone by God, for the scripture says that “all our righteousness are as filthy rags, and we all do fade as a leaf; and our inequity, like the wind, hath taken us away.” In Romans 3, “There are none who are good, no, not one. There are none who seek after God,” etc. And in Jeremiah 17, “The heart is deceitful above all thing, and desperately wicked; who can know it?” And in many other places, which make it clear that no man can stand before the throne of God and claim that they are good.
Luk_18:19 And Jesus said unto him, Why callest thou me good? none is good, save one, that is, God.
But in the regenerate, there is a new man who, though he wars with the old man, is nevertheless the redeemed child of God:
2Co_5:17 Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new.
Rom 7:22-25 For I delight in the law of God after the inward man: (23) But I see another law in my members, warring against the law of my mind, and bringing me into captivity to the law of sin which is in my members. (24) O wretched man that I am! who shall deliver me from the body of this death? (25) I thank God through Jesus Christ our Lord. So then with the mind I myself serve the law of God; but with the flesh the law of sin.
It is this new creature in Christ who is the “angel” you seek, but certainly not one as a result of human action, owing to some internal goodness in a dead and depraved man seeking out, of itself, to love God. He is totally the creation of God, “born again” by the will of the Spirit.