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To: vladimir998

Everyone who is a believer in Christ, including the angels, are known as saints. The Catholics like to pick certain people out and hold them to a higher standard and label them as saints but they are wrong. Read the Bible and you’ll see.


54 posted on 11/17/2012 8:37:28 AM PST by spacejunkie2001
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To: spacejunkie2001

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“Everyone who is a believer in Christ, including the angels, are known as saints.”

Everyone in the early Church was called a saint (Cor 1:1, Rom 1:7,Phil 1:1, Col 1:2, Eph 1:1). Today, not everyone who says they believe in Christ can be called a saint in the same way. Too many heresies have gotten in the way. Also, angels are called saints by convention - “sanctus”. It is largely a quirk of language. They are holy, but they are not saints as human beings can be saints. EVen when people cite verses for angels being called saints, they are rarely very clear on that point: see Deut 33:2-3 or Zech 14:5 or Dan. 7:18 for instance.

“The Catholics like to pick certain people out and hold them to a higher standard and label them as saints but they are wrong.”

False. Catholics do not “pick certain people out and hold them to a higher standard and label them as saints”. God gives grace to men to make them saints. The Church merely recognizes what they are and treats them accordingly as the children of God they are. Perhaps you never knew that. If you don’t know what the Catholic Church actually holds to or teaches you probably shouldn’t be stating your opinions on it since they will be poorly informed to say the least.

“Read the Bible and you’ll see.”

I read it often - probably more than you do.


60 posted on 11/17/2012 10:13:52 AM PST by vladimir998
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