Is there a religion out there that teaches these things? I don’t assume to know every doctrine of every religion out there, but becoming a guardian angel or looking down on us from heaven don’t strike me as being the teaching of any religion.

What, Christianity you say? No, these things are not written in our Scripture. The number of angels is fixed, no one is turned into one. And the dead are not looking down on us, at least not in the manner of this statement. There’s the scene in Revelation where the martyrs pray for us: “How long, O Lord, holy and true, until You judge and avenge our blood on those who dwell on the earth?” In essence, while it looks like they pray that God will exact their vengeance, they are also asking, “How long will You let them [us] suffer as we did?” (Revelation 6:9-11) But there is nothing in the Bible that states they are looking down on us as if watching and enjoying all the good things we’re doing or that are happening to us, celebrating with us in absentia, as it were.

Yesterday, a baseball field in the Denver area was dedicated in honor of the former president of the Colorado Rockies. Both of these things were said by one of his kids at the dedication.

Dear Christian parents, please stop espousing these false doctrines!