Fallen Angels

[photosynthesis]

In light of the feast of the Guardian Angels, I have some questions about the nature of angels and how they fit into our lives as Christians:

Satan is a fallen angel, is he not? And supposedly he brought other angels into hell with him. Is it true that an angel only has one chance to decide to accept God or reject him forever, and there is no chance of forgiveness?

Obviously the Church teaches that every soul has its own Guardian Angel. What if God gives someone a guardian angel, but that angel decides to reject God forever and falls from grace?

[CatholicCid]

Angels had one chance to decide whether to be with God or against him. They have already made their choice.
So, a guardian angel cannot reject God as he already has choosen to be with God.

Here is a CCC reference dealing with these questions:

[quote]II. THE FALL OF THE ANGELS

391 Behind the disobedient choice of our first parents lurks a seductive voice, opposed to God, which makes them fall into death out of envy.266 Scripture and the Church's Tradition see in this being a fallen angel, called "Satan" or the "devil".267 The Church teaches that Satan was at first a good angel, made by God: "The devil and the other demons were indeed created naturally good by God, but they became evil by their own doing."268

[b]392 Scripture speaks of a sin of these angels.269 This "fall" consists in the free choice of these created spirits, who radically and irrevocably rejected God and his reign. We find a reflection of that rebellion in the tempter's words to our first parents: "You will be like God."270 The devil "has sinned from the beginning"; he is "a liar and the father of lies".271 [/b]

[b]393 It is the irrevocable character of their choice, and not a defect in the infinite divine mercy, that makes the angels' sin unforgivable. "There is no repentance for the angels after their fall, just as there is no repentance for men after death."272 [/b]

394 Scripture witnesses to the disastrous influence of the one Jesus calls "a murderer from the beginning", who would even try to divert Jesus from the mission received from his Father.273 "The reason the Son of God appeared was to destroy the works of the devil."274 In its consequences the gravest of these works was the mendacious seduction that led man to disobey God.

395 The power of Satan is, nonetheless, not infinite. He is only a creature, powerful from the fact that he is pure spirit, but still a creature. He cannot prevent the building up of God's reign. Although Satan may act in the world out of hatred for God and his kingdom in Christ Jesus, and although his action may cause grave injuries - of a spiritual nature and, indirectly, even of a physical nature- to each man and to society, the action is permitted by divine providence which with strength and gentleness guides human and cosmic history. It is a great mystery that providence should permit diabolical activity, but "we know that in everything God works for good with those who love him."275[/quote]


A Priest at my Church today made the very good point on how our Guardian Angels work to protect us and help us on the path into Heaven as it was an angel, one of their own, (Satan) who first led us astray.

[Thy Geekdom Come]

Your beliefs about the angels are correct. As for your last question, the choice of the angels took place at their creation. They don't make up their mind now, so there is no danger of a guardian angel defecting.

God bless,

Micah

[photosynthesis]

Good, so I don't have to worry about my guardian angel turning into a demon.

[adt6247]

Someone is a bit paranoid. If this were a risk, the church would have let us know. As others have stated, it is impossible; angels can only choose to either serve or not at the moment the come into existence.

[XIX]

[quote name='photosynthesis' post='1397046' date='Oct 3 2007, 01:28 PM']Good, so I don't have to worry about my guardian angel turning into a demon.[/quote]
Hahaha, no you definitely don't need to worry about that.