To: knarf
The word "saint" is the Frenchified version of the Latin "sanctus," meaning "holy". That's all it is. Instead of using "saint," you can translate your Bible verses everywhere as "holy ones," because that's what the Greek means.
Don't get superficially hung up on words. They're symbols, nothing more and nothing less.
"Saint Michael" (i.e., "Holy Michael") can be a misleading nomenclature to some people. Michael is an Archangel, not a redeemed human being.
8 posted on
07/30/2017 5:19:21 AM PDT by
Campion
(Halten Sie sich unbedingt an die Lehre!)
To: Campion
The word "saint" is the Frenchified version of the Latin "sanctus," meaning "holy". That's all it is. Instead of using "saint," you can translate your Bible verses everywhere as "holy ones," because that's what the Greek means. Don't get superficially hung up on words. They're symbols, nothing more and nothing less.
Yet doesn't Roman Catholicism have distinctions of people they call saints?
23 posted on
07/30/2017 3:14:09 PM PDT by
ealgeone
To: Campion
Don't get superficially hung up on words. They're symbols, nothing more and nothing less."His mother and his BROTHERS are here."
30 posted on
07/31/2017 6:04:47 AM PDT by
Elsie
(Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
To: Campion
We Catholics do refer to this personage as St. Michael the Archangel. He is the only angel I know of that is referred to (in the General Confession) as a Saint.
31 posted on
07/31/2017 6:07:02 AM PDT by
ichabod1
(Smoke does not mean fire when someone threw a smoke grenade.)
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