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To: piusv

Yet one or more “miracles” is the criteria to BECOME a saint in the Catholic church.


480 posted on 07/15/2013 5:03:29 AM PDT by bonfire
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To: bonfire

Well, that’s partly true because miracles are not always necessary to be officially canonized (one example being Pope John XXIII). However, assuming it is always necessary, it still does not mean that the person now has God-like qualities (ie. able to perform the miracle him/herself).

Don’t forget that the apostles could perform miracles, drive out demons, heal the sick, etc, but we never say that they actually performed them, but that God performed the miracles through them.


491 posted on 07/15/2013 5:16:56 AM PDT by piusv
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To: bonfire

You noticed that, too, eh?


542 posted on 07/15/2013 7:58:59 AM PDT by metmom (For freedom Christ has set us free; stand firm therefore & do not submit again to a yoke of slavery)
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To: bonfire; piusv
>>Yet one or more “miracles” is the criteria to BECOME a saint in the Catholic church.<<

All true believers are saints in true Christianity.

The word “saint” comes from the Greek word hagios, which means “consecrated to God, holy, sacred, pious." It is almost always used in the plural, “saints.”

Acts 9:13 But Ananias answered, “Lord, I have heard from many about this man, how much evil he has done to your saints at Jerusalem.

Acts 9:32 Now as Peter went here and there among them all, he came down also to the saints who lived at Lydda.

Acts 26:10 And I did so in Jerusalem. I not only locked up many of the saints in prison after receiving authority from the chief priests, but when they were put to death I cast my vote against them.

Romans 12:13 Distributing to the necessity of saints; given to hospitality.

Romans 15:25 But now I go unto Jerusalem to minister unto the saints.

Romans 16:15 Salute Philologus, and Julia, Nereus, and his sister, and Olympas, and all the saints which are with them.

Ephesians 1:1 Paul, an apostle of Jesus Christ by the will of God, to the saints which are at Ephesus, and to the faithful in Christ Jesus.

688 posted on 07/15/2013 6:38:19 PM PDT by CynicalBear (For I decided to know nothing among you except Jesus Christ)
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