Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I understand that you can't pray to a guardian angel.

Let's say you were just hit by a car. Can you pray to God to ask him to get your guardian angel to pay closer attention?

No. Guardian angels don't intervene. They might give us a nudge - "Hey, look left!" but they can't stop you from stepping out into the street.

SO praying to god about this won't work? Who told you this? It is written down somewhere?

I can't pray to God and tell him to do the work for me. I can ask him to work with me and help me through difficult times, I can be open to His messages to me but if I don't listen to those nudges that is me asserting my free will. That is me opting to do my own thing, separate and apart from God. We all do that to some degree every day.

That does not mean that if I go outside and get hit by a bus or board a plane that winds up crashing that I have done something to "deserve" that. None of us makes it out of this life unscathed and physically alive. Pain, sadness, grief, death are a part of life. So are birth, joy, fun, love, excitement. That is true for every one of us.

Anonymous wrote:I think accepting real life (no guardian angels, no life after death, no gods, no heaven, no hell, etc) is extremely difficult for many people.

People self medicate with all kinds of things. Food, alcohol, drugs, and stories to help them sleep better at night or get through the day.

especially if they've been bombarded by it their whole lives and told they must believe and are ostracized if they don't.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I understand that you can't pray to a guardian angel.

Let's say you were just hit by a car. Can you pray to God to ask him to get your guardian angel to pay closer attention?

No. Guardian angels don't intervene. They might give us a nudge - "Hey, look left!" but they can't stop you from stepping out into the street.

SO praying to god about this won't work? Who told you this? It is written down somewhere?

I think accepting real life (no guardian angels, no life after death, no gods, no heaven, no hell, etc) is extremely difficult for many people.

People self medicate with all kinds of things. Food, alcohol, drugs, and stories to help them sleep better at night or get through the day.

Anonymous wrote:I understand that you can't pray to a guardian angel.

Let's say you were just hit by a car. Can you pray to God to ask him to get your guardian angel to pay closer attention?

No. Guardian angels don't intervene. They might give us a nudge - "Hey, look left!" but they can't stop you from stepping out into the street.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Colossians 2:18: "Let no one disqualify you, insisting on asceticism and worship of angels, going on in detail about visions, puffed up without reason by his sensuous mind."

Nothing in this thread has any Biblical merit.

No one is saying that they worship guardian angels. We worship God but recognize the presence of a kind, comforting someone looking out for us. An extension of God's love.

God is all powerful -- why would he need an extension of his love to look after people?

You are projecting your own beliefs onto others.

well, so are you -- are you suggesting that everyone can make up their own beliefs and assert that they are real?

Anonymous wrote:A Catholic friend says it's the Holy Spirit reaching out in a form we're capable of comprehending (a grandparent, a parent, a loved one). He also told me stories about deceased grandparents "visiting" his kid. Quite spooky, I must say. I never experienced anything like this personally, but I certainly would love to!

Yes. I'm the PP who said that guardian angels are an extension of God - this is what I mean.

A Catholic friend says it's the Holy Spirit reaching out in a form we're capable of comprehending (a grandparent, a parent, a loved one). He also told me stories about deceased grandparents "visiting" his kid. Quite spooky, I must say. I never experienced anything like this personally, but I certainly would love to!

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Colossians 2:18: "Let no one disqualify you, insisting on asceticism and worship of angels, going on in detail about visions, puffed up without reason by his sensuous mind."

Nothing in this thread has any Biblical merit.

No one is saying that they worship guardian angels. We worship God but recognize the presence of a kind, comforting someone looking out for us. An extension of God's love.

God is all powerful -- why would he need an extension of his love to look after people?

You are projecting your own beliefs onto others.

Anonymous wrote:Colossians 2:18: "Let no one disqualify you, insisting on asceticism and worship of angels, going on in detail about visions, puffed up without reason by his sensuous mind."

Nothing in this thread has any Biblical merit.

I'm a pp up thread. I never claimed to believe or follow the bible. In fact, I don't. I believe in God, our souls and the continuity of life past death. Not the bible.

Anonymous wrote:I understand that you can't pray to a guardian angel.

Let's say you were just hit by a car. Can you pray to God to ask him to get your guardian angel to pay closer attention?

LOL!

I understand that you can't pray to a guardian angel.

Let's say you were just hit by a car. Can you pray to God to ask him to get your guardian angel to pay closer attention?

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Colossians 2:18: "Let no one disqualify you, insisting on asceticism and worship of angels, going on in detail about visions, puffed up without reason by his sensuous mind."

Nothing in this thread has any Biblical merit.

No one is saying that they worship guardian angels. We worship God but recognize the presence of a kind, comforting someone looking out for us. An extension of God's love.

God is all powerful -- why would he need an extension of his love to look after people?

Anonymous wrote:Colossians 2:18: "Let no one disqualify you, insisting on asceticism and worship of angels, going on in detail about visions, puffed up without reason by his sensuous mind."

Nothing in this thread has any Biblical merit.

No one is saying that they worship guardian angels. We worship God but recognize the presence of a kind, comforting someone looking out for us. An extension of God's love.

Colossians 2:18: "Let no one disqualify you, insisting on asceticism and worship of angels, going on in detail about visions, puffed up without reason by his sensuous mind."

Nothing in this thread has any Biblical merit.