Do you think we have guardian angels?

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Elizabeth619

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You may want to read my post, which is #3 on page 1, which contains bible references to prove you wrong.
Col 2
t. 18 Do not let anyone who delights in false humility and the worship of angels disqualify you. Such a person also goes into great detail about what they have seen; they are puffed up with idle notions by their unspiritual mind. 19 They have lost connection with the head
 
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Col 2
t. 18 Do not let anyone who delights in false humility and the worship of angels disqualify you. Such a person also goes into great detail about what they have seen; they are puffed up with idle notions by their unspiritual mind. 19 They have lost connection with the head
I guess you must have read my post because your response (post) has 'nothing' to do with the thread topic. You have been proven wrong.:) I don't expect you to admit you are wrong but your reaction with a bible verse that has nothing to do with the topic at hand is hilarious. Have a nice day.
 
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Elizabeth619

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I guess you must have read my post because your response (post) has 'nothing' to do with the thread topic. You have been proven wrong.:) I don't expect you to admit you are wrong but your reaction with a bible verse that has nothing to do with the topic at hand is hilarious. Have a nice day.
So did you actually read your own post before you copied it from a website? Or did it support your claim so you just hit paste?
I can support my claim just as well as you can by posting someone else's words. But that doesn't make either of us right now does it? You can get defensive all you want. You can get rude too and act like this is a game of who is proved wrong(which that attitude is appalling). I suggest you go back to your own post and study it to make sure verses weren't taken out of context.
By the way, guardian angels is very dangerous territory. Giving glory to angels and not God is worshiping them.

Jesus said "I am with you always". By discussing this topic is taking away from the one who saved us in the first place. Angels are great. They play a huge role in Christianity but one must be careful not to give credit to the wrong one.
 

Elizabeth619

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I guess you must have read my post because your response (post) has 'nothing' to do with the thread topic. You have been proven wrong.:) I don't expect you to admit you are wrong but your reaction with a bible verse that has nothing to do with the topic at hand is hilarious. Have a nice day.
I also don't find anything about this hilarious. I'm sorry you look at it that way. If you honestly think I'm misinformed about this then why are you laughing and not concerned? There's something seriously wrong with your attitude.
You're in my prayers.
 
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I always feel like I'm being watched over, and I know it's the Lord but do you think each of us has an guardian angel ?
I do not believe we have a guardian angle. If we did then the many children and Christians that are murderd each year wouldn't be murdered. There is another look at your question that does have another view.

Matthew 18:10 states, “See that you do not look down on one of these little ones. For I tell you that their angels in heaven always see the face of my Father in heaven.” In the context, “these little ones” could either apply to those who believe in Him (v. 6) or it could refer to the little children (vs. 3-5). This is the key passage regarding guardian angels. There is no doubt that good angels help protect (Daniel 6:20-23; 2 Kings 6:13-17), reveal information (Acts 7:52-53; Luke 1:11-20), guide (Matthew 1:20-21; Acts 8:26), provide for (Genesis 21:17-20; 1 Kings 19:5-7), and minister to believers in general (Hebrews 1:14).

The question is whether each person—or each believer—has an angel assigned to him/her. In the Old Testament, the nation of Israel had the archangel (Michael) assigned to it (Daniel 10:21; 12:1), but Scripture nowhere states that an angel is "assigned” to an individual (angels were sometimes sent to individuals, but there is no mention of permanent assignment). The Jews fully developed the belief in guardian angels during the time between the Old and New Testament periods. Some early church fathers believed that each person had not only a good angel assigned to him/her, but a demon as well. The belief in guardian angels has been around for a long time, but there is no explicit scriptural basis for it.

To return to Matthew 18:10, the word “their” is a collective pronoun in the Greek and refers to the fact that believers are served by angels in general. These angels are pictured as “always” watching the face of God so as to hear His command to them to help a believer when it is needed. The angels in this passage do not seem to be guarding a person so much as being attentive to the Father in heaven. The active duty or oversight seems, then, to come more from God than from the angels, which makes perfect sense because God alone is omniscient. He sees every believer at every moment, and He alone knows when one of us needs the intervention of an angel. Because they are continually seeing His face, the angels are at His disposal to help one of His “little ones.”

It cannot be emphatically answered from Scripture whether or not each believer has a guardian angel assigned to him/her. But, as stated earlier, God does use angels in ministering to us. It is scriptural to say that He uses them as He uses us; that is, He in no way needs us or them to accomplish His purposes, but chooses to use us and them nevertheless (Hebrews 1:7). In the end, whether or not we have an angel assigned to protect us, we have an even greater assurance from God: if we are His children through faith in Christ, He works all things together for good (Romans 8:28-30), and Jesus Christ will never leave us or forsake us (Hebrews 13:5-6). If we have an omniscient, omnipotent, all-loving God with us, does it really matter whether or not there is a finite guardian angel protecting us?

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blue_ladybug

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FELT an angelic presence? The bible tells us not to be guided by our feelings and what you "feel" does equal what God says. The bible also says Satan can present himself as an angel of light. So warm and fuzzy feelings isn't evidence of an angel and one should never give credit to them. One should always give credit to God.

David wasn't in the lions den. Daniel was. When God protected him daniel said "god sent HIS angel" he didn't say "god sent MY angel" even though an angel protected Daniel that isn't evidence that the angel was his own personal angel. There's no evidence of that.

I never once said I don't believe in angels. I most certainly do. I don't believe in worshipping them.
Elizabeth, I meant Daniel, not David--ty for clarifying that. :) God sent Daniel an angel during his time of tribulation in the lion's den. I never said that I worship angels. I dont, but I do believe that they exist. God sends his angels to us to help us in times of despair, and angels are of god so through them, God is with us. Thats the point I was trying to make. :)
 

Elizabeth619

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Elizabeth, I meant Daniel, not David--ty for clarifying that. :) God sent Daniel an angel during his time of tribulation in the lion's den. I never said that I worship angels. I dont, but I do believe that they exist. God sends his angels to us to help us in times of despair, and angels are of god so through them, God is with us. Thats the point I was trying to make. :)
Im sorry. I don't see enough scriptural evidence to support many claims about guardian angels. I do see scriptures taken out of contexts(not you specifically) to support guardian angels when a passage may speak of angel it isn't referring to guardians or the point in the passage isn't about angels.
An example of this is "people have entertained angels without knowing"

That passage isn't supporting guardian angels. It's telling us to be kind to strangers.
Abraham was hospitable to the angels that came to him and said Sarah would get pregnant. That to me doesn't point to his own personal angels. They were sent on a specific mission from God to give a message.

When Abraham almost sacrificed Isaac who interfered? Was it a guardian angel to protect Isaac or was it God? It was God.

Another example is in Luke when it talks about the beggar dying and angels carried him to Abraham's bosom. Again, that doesn't tell me it was the beggars assigned angel. All it says is an angel.

I believe angels are given specific duties in doing the lords will and if it interferes with our free will or His plan for us then one needs to rethink the concept of how they see angels.
 
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Im sorry. I don't see enough scriptural evidence to support many claims about guardian angels. I do see scriptures taken out of contexts(not you specifically) to support guardian angels when a passage may speak of angel it isn't referring to guardians or the point in the passage isn't about angels.
An example of this is "people have entertained angels without knowing"

That passage isn't supporting guardian angels. It's telling us to be kind to strangers.
Abraham was hospitable to the angels that came to him and said Sarah would get pregnant. That to me doesn't point to his own personal angels. They were sent on a specific mission from God to give a message.

When Abraham almost sacrificed Isaac who interfered? Was it a guardian angel to protect Isaac or was it God? It was God.

Another example is in Luke when it talks about the beggar dying and angels carried him to Abraham's bosom. Again, that doesn't tell me it was the beggars assigned angel. All it says is an angel.

I believe angels are given specific duties in doing the lords will and if it interferes with our free will or His plan for us then one needs to rethink the concept of how they see angels.
Depends what one means by 'guardian', I guess.

In Hebrews 1, for example, regarding angels as 'ministering spirits sent to minister to them that shall be heirs of salvation', I suppose it could be said that those who shall be heirs of salvation are being guarded spiritually.

Blessings.