A personal relationship with your guardian angel

[MahogonySnail]

I've come across some christians who not only have a personal relationship with the Father, Son and Holy Spirit, but also with their guardian angel. They talk with it, ask it for help and guidance. I say it because i dont know if they are male or female.

I'm personally against it, but is there any justification for it in the bible?

Thoughts?

It's hard to tell people "that's wrong", when they recount childhood stories of how they used to play with their guardian angel as a child and how the angel would be their friend when they were lonely. Especially when these people are outcasts of society, homeless or disabled, or confined to their beds with no one to talk to and no one who cares for them. I can't bring myself to disagree with them.

I guess the bible does teach the angels are ministering spirits, and to minister to a christian they would have to have some sort of dialogue and personal relationship with the person they are ministering to.

 

[NodMyHeadLikeYeah]

I have never heard of anyone having a relationship with a guardian angel. I've never even heard anyone say they have a guardian angel actually.

 

[MahogonySnail]

The bible says the angels came and ministered to Jesus. What did they do? what did they say? I expect they offered words of comfort and advice, and said " dont worry buddy, you'll be fine". I expect Jesus also talked with them, and said "hey , Ralph, haven't seen you in ages, hows things in heaven?" Maybe this idea of a personal relationship with an angel isn't so strange afterall.

 

[resurrection33]

I’m not aware of anything in the Bible specifically relating to a “guardian” angel. I believe the Lord himself looks out after us.

 

[resurrection33]

What exactly is an angel?

 

[resurrection33]

Does the Bible tell us what an angel is?

 

[machew]

I'm not aware of this being biblical. I know of some who have spoke to their angel once or twice, but not a relationship.

 

[wwjd_kilden]

I used to believe in guardian angels, but then realized the bible never says anything about them

angels are servants of God and messengers , sure they can protect, but I don't think we have assigned guardian angels. God has the power to look after us without sending one angel for each and every person

 

[Harley_Angel]

Actually, when I was young, i used to have a guardian angel who I talked to every night. it stopped sometime when I was a teenager, but from teh time I was bout 8-13 I would stay up all night and talk to "her" she never told me her name, but I always called her Peppermint because (I know this sounds strange) I thought peppermints were beautiful and she reminded me of one. She never talked back, only just listened. I never really saw her with my eyes, but I knew she was there and that she had form. She never physically touched me, but the entire time I talked, it felt like I was being hugged.

My mom married my stepdad when i was 7 and shortly after had my little brother, which I was not happy about. It's the same old story of the baby getting all the attention, and the emotionally abusive and negligent step-parent. I didn't have anyone to talk to. Just moved to a new town so I had no friends, school hadn't started yet, my mom was always busy with the baby, and my step-dad was a jerk. It just felt natural to talk to my angel, and it made me less afraid to sleep in a house that has AWAYS given me the creeps. That house is crawling with bad juju. I think I stopped talking to the angel because when I turned 13 I was baptised and began learning what a relationship with God was like. Befoe then, I thought God was the big guy, and I knew He watched over us, but I didn't think you could go straight up to the top with your problems. When I started praying to Him and going to church and stuff, I stopped talking to my angel.

 

[wwjd_kilden]

That's awesome. I guess He knew you needed someone"down there" to talk to first

 

[loveschild]

It says they ministered to him. It doesn't say he talked back to them. They bring power from from God. God is the soucre. I've heard lots of people talk of having a guarden angel. I never heard of people who talk to them. I've also heard lots of people refer to their family members who have died as they are angels in heaven. Angels are angels and humans are humans. We don't turn into angels after we die. There is a thing of worshipping angels. So I wouldn't talk to them. Its best to talk to God. Plus there are many angels around us not just one.

 

[MahogonySnail]

Every angel encounter in the bible involves dialogue with the angel lol. From Daniel to Mary. I think the Son of God who actually created and owned the angels would have talked to them. Ministering surely involves dialogue.

 

[Thaddaeus]

Jacob's ladder is about the ladder where Jacob saw angels asending to heaven and desending to earth, angels in the form of man spoke to people all through the old Testament, most people speak of angels always being in the male form for many believe that there is no gender among angels, but there is a verse in the old testament that speaks of two ladies with wings, when We see the phrase " the angel of the Lord" some people teach that is Jesus Himself. then the verse in the new testament that tells us to be careful , that we might entertain angels unawares, then I believe that the verse that talks about where if thou dash thy foot angels will come , But I do believe that this is referring to the Holy one Himself that came in the Flesh that we might have Life, then there is the falling angels that teams up with Satan, then you have the false teaching in genesis 6 where the the sons of God ( people falsely teach that this is angels) why do I know this is false because no where is it recorded that angels are borned , or that they are capable of producing life as man is. and as far as angels talking with man don't forget those that told the good news of Jesus being borned to the shepherds, but I don't know of any as being referred to as Guardian angels.

 

[Thaddaeus]

What exactly is an angel?

if you are ever where it has snowed , then Lay on your back in a big ole fluffy pile of snow with your arms straight down by you side with legs closed slide both legs out to the side several times pushing the snow out with them, then slide your arms out from your body alway above your head as far as you can, then bring them back down to your side repeat this motion several times very carefully stand up then turn around and look at the spot where you laid. That is an angel, well a snow angel anyhow!

 

[Kay_Kay]

The idea of a guardian angel seems whimsical to me. I'm sure there are angels who do God's work and protect us, but I'm not sure about having your own beefed up angel hovering over you all day and night. I never really thought of angels more than God's servants. Whenever I read about them they are more practical then anything, so I suspect having deep conversations with them would be more business and rather...dry. They never captured my interests.

 

[MyBagsRPacked]

I've come across some christians who not only have a personal relationship with the Father, Son and Holy Spirit, but also with their guardian angel. They talk with it, ask it for help and guidance. I say it because i dont know if they are male or female.

I'm personally against it, but is there any justification for it in the bible?

Thoughts?

It's hard to tell people "that's wrong", when they recount childhood stories of how they used to play with their guardian angel as a child and how the angel would be their friend when they were lonely. Especially when these people are outcasts of society, homeless or disabled, or confined to their beds with no one to talk to and no one who cares for them. I can't bring myself to disagree with them.

I guess the bible does teach the angels are ministering spirits, and to minister to a christian they would have to have some sort of dialogue and personal relationship with the person they are ministering to.

I know I've heard about having one....as far as a personal relationship, \i'm not convinced.
A story of the guardian angel, I can relay:
I had a family in my church who had a massive fire on their land a few years back...they were older and lay down for a quick nap )from farming duties) while this was unfolding...a knock came at the door at the prescise moment that saved them....and then he was gone (not vanished but left in the hustle and bustle of the moment). No one knew who this man was or where he went, or came from on a lonely rural road).
Persoanl story. My husbandds family were succoming to carbon monoxide poisoning in their own home. Family friend pops over when phonecalls go unanswered...she was our angel that night...not all were saved, but not all were lost...
Perhaps guardian angels are just people G-d puts in our lives at opportune moments?

 

[pickles]

I know angels are scriptural, but a personal relationship?
I dont know. Id rather talk to God Our Father
But Angels do serve God. So if one ever comes my ways Ill not reject.
More than likely Ill probably be paralized with awe.
God bless, pickles

 

[aspen]

as far as angels talking with man don't forget those that told the good news of Jesus being borne to the shepherds, but I don't know of any as being referred to as Guardian angels.

Angels speaking to people - Mary speaking to angels......

Why is this so acceptable, yet talking with saints is so wrong? - it is simply not rational.

No one accused Mary of worshiping Gabriel......she was merely having a pray-like conversation.

The idea of guardian angels is a Catholic belief, like limbo, developed in the Middle Ages - it is a belief that was accepted and developed by some laypeople, but never defined by the church. Reformers rejected the idea of guardian angels.

 

[phil36]

Angels speaking to people - Mary speaking to angels......

Why is this so acceptable, yet talking with saints is so wrong? - it is simply not rational.

No one accused Mary of worshiping Gabriel......she was merely having a pray-like conversation.

The idea of guardian angels is a Catholic belief, like limbo, developed in the Middle Ages - it is a belief that was accepted and developed by some laypeople, but never defined by the church. Reformers rejected the idea of guardian angels.

People spoke to Angels when God sent them....

You cannot then turn that around to say we can talk to Mary. plus Mary is not an angel.

 

[aspen]

People spoke to Angels when God sent them....

You cannot then turn that around to say we can talk to Mary. plus Mary is not an angel.

Neither were Moses or Elijah on Mt. Tabor.