It really is a quite different view, radically different.
I think I could say for both the RC and EO that a clear indication someone is not a saint is that they claim to be.
Well put. Real saints are too humble to concern themselves with their sainthood. In their eyes, they are the last people on earth who deserve such an honor.
I think I could say for both the RC and EO that a clear indication someone is not a saint is that they claim to be.
I don't recall that anyone has claimed to be a saint.
I would rather be known, simply ... as a child of God.1 John 3:1 Behold what manner of love the Father has bestowed on us, that we should be called the children of God. Therefore the world does not know us, because it did not know Him.
2 Beloved, now we are the children of God; and it has not yet been revealed what we shall be, but we know that when He is revealed, we shall be like Him, for we shall see Him as He is.