Ok, there are probably a lot of problems with angels, but consider this: If an angel steps in to change the course of events to benefit a person, there may be a downside for someone else. What should we do with that? Related, what about the person who simply is not helped by an angel — the devastating car accident, the mugging victim, the addict… But back to Problem #1. I got thinking about this while watching an old episode of “Saving Grace.” Here’s what happened. The angel Earle “saved” Grace from committing drunk driving homicide (you lawyers out there: is this what they call “manslaughter”? anyway…). It sure looked to us (and to her) like she’d killed the guy; but then it turns out she hadn’t. Matter of fact, it appears that the accident never happened. It’s the first time that we meet another of Earle’s charges — a guy on death row, the very same whom Grace thought that she had slaughtered. When Grace talks to him in prison, trying to figure out how all this could have happened, the guy explains that (simultaneous with the accident) he’d dreamed he was in heaven with God, but because of Earle’s actions (“saving” Grace), he had to return to “this hell-hole,” i.e. prison on death row. Hmmmm.
