Guardian angels: misguided nonsense or complete crap?

Question

I mean if you read the bible, (and as a scholar and student of mass delusions I have) it would seem angels personally couldn't give a damn about humans. Just my opinion.

Gods child these are all instances where "god" chose to send an "angel" to protect someone holy or somehow otherwise important, or convey a message, can you find me one instance in the bible where an ANGEL says "hmmm, I like this person, I think I'm gonna follow him around and protect him from accidents and stuff", of course not, they only obey god, and if you got in the way of their mission from god they would destroy you quicker than any demon.

Answer 1

I often like to imagine religious metaphors as modern-day sci-fi. You see, science fiction tends to, at least, try to make a number of scientific stretches plausible. While it both succeeds and fails at this, it often educates in process. What we can understand with a strong foundation in science, we can often understand when someone takes the same example from a strong foundation in spirit.

Towit, I had a childhood notion that if there is intelligent life elsewhere in the universe, there would always be the possibility of a single society, perhaps spread over several planets, whose population was so large, they could have an entire scientific community just devoted to the practice of studying us. That's to say that while they'd still have their transportation experts, their leaders, their artists, their historians, their builders, their engineers and so on, the sheer enormity of their society could have one scientist devoted to a lifetime of study per each and every one of us. Granted, the society would have to be huge, one scientist for every single man, woman and child at any given time on the face of the Earth, with the proper ratio to all other careers leaping way up based upon this premise. Yet, the very sci-fi interest of it was something fun to consider. It might actually be somebody who knows more about me than me, somebody that's recorded everything I've ever given off, every conversation, body gesture, fever, emotion, thought, and so on. The fiction intrigues me even now.

Well, this is not too different from a notion of guardian angels. See, whatever you wish to call the paranormal...an afterlife, an alternate dimension, a heaven, and so on, truth is that the idea of such is a realm of infinitum. Deity is supposed to be omnipotent, forever, not even impacted by the passage of time. Hence, entities closer to deity, those living in the same or a similar ethereal realm, would, by wrote be more closely related to forever, to infinity. It wouldn't matter whether we called them angels or demons or the ninth quantum leap from a charged particle state. They would simply exist and exist in a way we could speculate upon, but never quite nail down.

So, in the comparison of two admitted fictions, which is more plausible? 1) A society so vast that it could contain a scientific community duly large enough to charge one scientist with the study of every one human ...or... 2) Beings that are inherently infinite having enough room, vis-à-vis timelessness, to devote to all perceivable tasks at hand, including guardianship?

To a certain comparative degree, it is almost easier to believe the latter. If there are about 7 billion people on the face of the Earth now, billions more who have walked the Earth before us, that might imply an alien society ranging in the google-plex-tillion populous range. Just the resources it would take to maintain a society that large further imply what workforce could not be spared to study us individually.

Meanwhile, the idea, as made-up as it is, lends some weight to the notion that an entity which does not die, an entity that can bounce around time or experience endless multiple moments in a given Earth second would more readily and more easily fulfill all needed tasks. For instance, an angel in this context could zip over to pick up a dead guy, vanquish a demon, guard a family from a car accident, do a deity's bidding, pray, and sweep up a few clouds all in the same instant, without losing a spec of time. Sure, my notion is constructed from human cliché. However, if my very mind can conceive of LESS plausible things, isn't the probability of the existence of more plausible things all that much more possible?

I do not think that it is at all delusional to make a case for the things we cannot see or touch. I simply find it highly inadvisable to depend upon those invisible factors above all else.

Answer 2

Angels are like robot that is programmed to do things in a single course of action. It has no emotions to feel if it hurts or not. It is what humans need oftentimes to do the right things. Not all right decisions to make can be good. There is a good decision that may only help a few person you love or yourself alone. And there are times you have to make an unpopular move to make a right thing for the sake of many or for the world. The Angels you might have learned from the Bible are often like that. Your guardian Angels are the two sides of your brain that helps you decide a course of action in which you will weight which is the righteous thing to do....for yourself, for your love ones or for the world (God).

Answer 3

confident i'm specific approximately spirit guides because of the fact she comprises me each and all the time for threes years solid. and that i think of I seen an angel besides. you are able to pray and ask God that might assist you're making touch. whether, God spoke to human beings extra usually by messengers than by direct touch. listed here are some examples. old try, Lot spoke / 2 angels Gen. 19: a million-3 a million Kings 19: 5-8 an angel of the Lord saved Elijah from ravenous. Gen. 20:6Abraham heard from God in a dream. others Luke a million:26-31 Matt 3:sixteen Matt 28: 5-7

Answer 4

Angel in Hebrew just means messenger... and if you read the story of Sodom and Gamorrah, the angels needed protecting. The whole idea for the Guardian Angel comes from the Apocrypha... those books which are still in the Roman Catholic Bible. The same books which speak of Purgatory.

Another fine example of how people pick and choose what they will believe in while telling others they MUST believe. *sigh* This is annoying.

Answer 5

If you really feel that the Bible is a "mass delusion", why do you ask the question? If you've really read the Bible,(and I don't believe you have)then you would have seen that angels are servants of God and His messengers.God loves humanity(including you) and He has used angels many times to do His will. You're certainly entitled to your opinion, but you might consider doing some more investigation into "mass delusions".

Answer 6

They are a very socially conscious group that protects the public from the bad guys .I like the Red Berets.
These are the only REAL Guardian Angels that I know of .
Also THEY CAN BE SEEN especially Curtis Sliwa,the leader.

Answer 7

:I would like to offer you a little food for thought:
Matthew 7:7 & 8
...seek and ye shall find...

that said; I now must question your statement: "(as a scholar and student of mass delusions I have)"...

Well, why don't you NOW try reading it AGAIN - only this time, read it as the sinner that you are; (...we ALL have fallen short...) because THAT is who it was written for ("that would be you, & I, and all of mankind...)... and btw: an OPEN mind does not mean a weak mind...

God says love one another as I have loved you... (I believe that includes the Angels...)

Anyway...I'll pray for you:
Dear Heavenly Father,
Please show this questioning sinner Your love, Your forgiveness, Your grace, and YOUR power! Heal his mind, body and spirit Father God so that he may be a soldier in Your army and not satans.
In Jesus' name we pray, amen.

http://www.IbelieveinAngels.com

Answer 8

Angels are just people who happened to be there when you needed them.

Since in ancient times people gave gods credit for everything they said these people couldn't have been people, they must have been angels sent by god.

It's not delusion, it's bad reasoning.


See..... Look at Keig's answer.

Answer 9

I am not weird .......just a normal person.........but during the WORST time of my life......at my lowest most humble time..........an angel came and talked to me..............I didnt know it was an angel until a few days later.

Answer 10

The word “angel” (in Hebrew (singular/plural), malak/malakim; in Greek, aggelos/aggelois) means “messenger” or one who is deputed.” Angels are pure spiritual and immortal beings created by God “in the beginning” (Gen. 1:1), who glorify God without ceasing (Rev. 4:8) and help carry out God’s plan of salvation of the human family (Heb. 1:14). The angels, like humans, have intelligence, will and emotion (Luke 2:10; 15:10). Angels can see God (Matt. 18:10), are called sons of God (Job 1:6; 38:7) and are ministers of God’s will (Psalm 103:20; Matt. 4:1; 13:49; 26:53). While the angels are spirits, they can assume bodily form (John 20:12; Heb. 13:2; Acts 6:15). Angels also have their own language (1 Cor. 13:1). There is a prodigious number of angels (Luke 2:13; Heb. 12:22; Rev. 5:11; Dan. 7:10; Psalm 67:18).

Through salvation history, angels have appeared to human beings, such as Zechariah (Zech. 2:3), Samson’s mother (Judges 13:3), Joseph (Matt. 1:20; 2:13-19), Zachariah (Luke 1:11,19-20), the Blessed Virgin Mary (Luke 1:26-38), the shepherds (Luke 2:9,15), Jesus during His agony in the garden (Luke 22:43), the apostles after the Resurrection (Matt 28:2) and after the Ascension (Acts 1:10). Angels have also assisted human beings with affairs on earth, such as Abraham (Gen. 18; 22:11), Hagar (Gen. 16:7; 21:17), Lot (Gen. 19), Jacob (Gen. 28:12), Elijah (1 Kings 19:5), Daniel (Dan. 6:22), Tobit (Tobit 5:6-22), Peter (Acts 10:19; 12:7-11), Cornelius (Acts 10:3; 11:13), and the eunuch (Acts 8:26-39).

As the angels are emissaries or messengers of God, they observe our behavior closely and report back to God what they observe. While God already knows how we behave, He is moved when His creatures beseech Him. Thus, the angels can report to God our good and bad behavior, and God in return will dispense both graces (Rev. 1:4; Heb. 1:14) and punishments through the angels (2 Kings 19:35; 1 Macc. 7:41; 2 Macc. 3:24-27; Acts 12:23; Rev. 1-20). In light of this, Paul tells women to put a veil on their heads for worship “because of the angels” (1 Cor. 11:10). If a woman does not wear this symbol of submission when she prays (and particularly at the Holy Mass, where the angels intimately assist), then the angels will report to God their non-submission.

The angels are not only judging our behavior on earth, but will also come with Christ to judge the world at the end of time (Matt. 16:27; 24:31; 1 Thess. 4:16; 2 Thess. 1:7). Some of the angels rebelled against God, were cast out of heaven and condemned to hell (2 Peter 2:4; Jude 6). One of these fallen angels named Apollyon in Greek (Abaddon in Hebrew) is the king of the infernal abyss (Rev. 9:11).

One of the principal duties of angels is to serve as guardians for the baptized. There is little Scriptural evidence supporting the view that un-baptized people have guardian angels, but the early Fathers had differing opinions on the question and the Church has not addressed the issue. Here are some Scriptural verses that demonstrate the truth of guardian angels:

Ex.23:20-23 – “See, I am sending an angel before you, to guard you on the way and bring you to the place I have prepared. Be attentive to him and heed his voice. Do not rebel against him, for he will not forgive your sin. My authority resides in him. If you heed his voice and carry out all I tell you, I will be an enemy to your enemies and a foe to your foes. My angel will go before you and bring you to the Amorites, Hittites, Perizzites, Canaanites, Hivites and Jebusites; and I will wipe them out.”

Judith 13:20 – “As the same Lord lives, his angel has been my keeper both going hence and abiding there, and returning from there here; and the Lord has not suffered me his handmaid to be defiled, but has brought me back to you without pollution of sin, rejoicing for his victory, for my escape, and for your deliverance.”

Psalm 34:8 – “The angel of the LORD, who encamps with them, delivers all who fear God.”

Psalm 91:11-13 – “For God commands the angels to guard you in all your ways. With their hands they shall support you, lest you strike your foot against a stone. You shall tread upon the asp and the viper, trample the lion and the dragon.” God reveals to David that the angels will guard and protect him. Since this Psalm was written about 1,000 years before Christ, the belief in guardian angels was well-established among the Jews.

Dan. 10:13 – “but the prince of the kingdom of Persia stood in my way for twenty-one days, until finally Michael, one of the chief princes, came to help me. I left him there with the prince of the kings of Persia…” See also Dan. 4:17; 10:10-21; and Acts 16:6 where angels serve as guardians of entire countries.

Matt.18:10 - "See that you do not despise one of these little ones, for I say to you that their angels in heaven always look upon the face of my heavenly Father.” Jesus’ use of “their angels” (hoi angeloi auton) in reference to “one of these little ones” (enos ton micron touton) indicates that each “little one” has an angel to guard and protect the little one.

Acts 12:14-15 – “She was so overjoyed when she recognized Peter's voice that, instead of opening the gate, she ran in and announced that Peter was standing at the gate. They told her, "You are out of your mind," but she insisted that it was so. But they kept saying, “It is his angel.” This demonstrates that adults also have guardian angels. The phrase “they kept saying” also shows that the belief in guardian angels was common in the early Church.