How can you find out if you have a guardian angel?

Answer 1

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In mercy and truth you can gauge your state of affairs.

Example 1. You get waylaid and your life is in peril from two muggers, and inexplicably one sees good in you and protects you from the other and lets you pass.

Example 2. You are waylaid by two muggers in an alley who have the intent of doing you harm, but they are prevented from acting due to a passing police car whose officer spots your predicament and intervenes.

In those kind of situations you have been protected due to the influence of an angel on the participants - one who had mercy, and one who happened to glance down the alley.

You have to be free of earthly affairs though to be able to sustain the protection of ethereal beings. One sees this in The Virgin Mary and her life of devotion to God - History and Infancy Gospels of the Virgin Mary.

Answer 2

No, everyone is not 'assigned' a guardian angel as some teach. Nowhere in The Bible does it specifically state that every person has a guardian angel. But that doesn't mean that people haven't been protected/guarded by angels in the Bible and even today. The Bible explains in Hebrews 1:14New International Version (NIV):


14 Are not all angels ministering spirits sent to serve those who will inherit salvation?

For the 'elect' or 'little flock' that will repent, be baptized and follow (disciple means to imitate) Christ, these are surely protected as it is God's will. But remember God tests each and everyone of us (1 Thessalonians 2:4). So it all boils down to God as the main source of protection, period.

A recent 2008 USA poll found over 50% of Americans believe in a guardian angel who watches over them and protects them when needed. Unfortunately, this is a teaching of men and not the Scripture. Another poll conducted by the Pew Forum on the 'U.S. Religious Knowledge Survey' found that atheists and agnostics know more about religion than religious people. So you can see that Americans are not well informed on practices and tenets, history and leading figures of major faith traditions - which includes their own. They simple accept what others before them accepted or are told/taught in their churches/schools.

In the Greek and the Hebrew (mal'ak), an angel simply means a messenger. They are spiritually created beings (Colossians 1:16, Nehemiah 9:6 and Job 38:4-7). They do not have gender or marry (Mark 12:25). They do not lie (Luke 20:36). They have more wisdom than humans (Matthew 24:36). And presently, they are more powerful than we humans (Matthew 28:2, Acts 5:19 and 2 Peter 2:11). They are God's messengers (Luke 1:11, Matthew 1:20, and Revelation 14:6). They also protect God's chosen (Psalm 35:1; 91:11, Daniel 6:22) to mention a few.

But it is God who is above all and controls all - including protection/guardianship - no one else (Exodus 20:3, Colossians 2:18 and Revelation 19:10). Prayer is our human way of speaking to God and asking Him for all our needs. He answers all who serve Him as is His will for our best well being - maybe not in this physical life but surely for our eternal salvation.

Answer 3

Guardian angels are biblical folk tales used to assure infants and the gullible.
In a recent poll 98% of those asked said they were Fairy Tales, the equivalent to the tooth fairy and the Easter Bunny.
Should there be a god, or whatever persuasion, it would be strange that he/she/it would expect you to rely on such things as opposed to your own self reliance and common sense

Answer 4

You may rest assured that you have a Guardian Angel, as this has been the constant teaching of the Church since the beginning, based on Sacred Scripture and Tradtion.