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1 | Where are guardian angels mentioned? | Bible general Archive 1 | charis | 5880 | ||
Dear Nolan, As I wrote in answer to HeirofGod, I certainly believe that angels are charged with protecting His people in accordance with His wishes, the reality of a full-time, personally-assigned angel or angels for every child or every saint is not supported in Scripture. I read all your references, as well as all the previous references in this line of postings. Your posting about Peter is the most challenging to understand, but not very conclusive about the existence of guardian angels. Why the others would taunt her that 'it was his angel' seems to be ridiculing her, as if she was seeing a ghost. Peter's angel was off the job? Guardian angels look like their charges? Why didn't they want to see who it was? I don't know. Matthew 18:10, These angels are constantly in heaven. Also, as every child does stumble on rocks and every other available protrubance, and suffer all kinds of accidents (some more than others), then God is a God Who does not send the angels to protect all that often. That God *withholds* His angels is a stumbling point. (pun intended :-) As a parent, I would be pretty upset every time my child skinned her knee, or got a fever. Those times are heart-wrenching! "Where were you, Guardian?!?!" That "more than 12 legions" are available at any time does not surprise me at all. I believe in myriads of angels! I have experienced angelic intervention both before and after I was apprehended by the Lord. However, *my own* angel is a bit hard to grasp. Possibly those few people that never have any problems could claim their constant companionship? In any case, dear friend, I don't lose sleep wrestling with this, and I hope you don't :-) In Christ Jesus, charis |
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2 | Where are guardian angels mentioned? | Bible general Archive 1 | Makarios | 5904 | ||
Dear friend Charis! Thank you for your response. No, I didn't lose sleep over this question (being in a different time zone :) ).. Yes, I read Acts 12:15 and came to the conclusion that this was not supportive of the theory of guardian angels either. Hebrews 1:14 comes the closest to giving evidence for guardian angels, but one cannot base a belief of guardian angels on that since it only mentions angels as 'ministering spirits'.. I agree with you that the idea of everyone having their own individual angel is hard to grasp. If something were to happen to us, like a car accident, then we ask "Where was my angel?". It is good to keep in mind that God uses adversity to help develop our 'faith muscles' (James 1:2-4). And even though God may not always remove us from the midst of adversity, He will always walk with us through the adversity (Psalm 23:4). So either way, God knows all and sees all, but these verses alone are not conclusive enough (for me) to prove that we each have a guardian angel that is stationed or commissioned to us. | ||||||