[Texas Eagle]

Where in the Bible does it enumerate all the hoops one must jump through to become a Saint?

[Pyro7480]

You bring up a good question, but as you probably know, the Catholic Church doesn't just rely on the Bible. It also relies on Church tradition. The canonization process is instititutonal in character. The Church on Earth, through the canonization process, recognizes that through a holy person's actions during life, and through their intercession after death, which manifests itself through miracles, that because of these, a person is a saint. Other souls in heaven are most likely also saints in the literal sense, but they haven't been officially recognized as such by the Catholic Church.

[netman]

The bible doesn't say that. Just more Papist Bunk..

Eph 1:15 Salute Philologus, and Julia, Nereus, and his sister, and Olympas, and all the saints which are with them.

2Co 1:1

Paul, an apostle of Jesus Christ by the will of God, and Timothy our brother, unto the church of God which is at Corinth, with all the saints which are in all Achaia:,

2Co 13:13

All the saints salute you. Eph 1:15

Wherefore I also, after I heard of your faith in the Lord Jesus, and love unto all the saints,

Php 1:1

Paul and Timotheus, the servants of Jesus Christ, to all the saints in Christ Jesus which are at Philippi, with the bishops and deacons:

Php 4:22

All the saints salute you, chiefly they that are of Caesar's household.

Col 1:4

Since we heard of your faith in Christ Jesus, and of the love which ye have to all the saints,

Heb 13:24

Salute all them that have the rule over you, and all the saints. They of Italy salute you.

[Aquinasfan]

Where in the Bible does it enumerate all the hoops one must jump through to become a Saint?

The question is not just, "what does the Bible say," but "what does the Church say":

Matthew 18:17

If he refuses to listen to them, tell it to the church; and if he refuses to listen even to the church, treat him as you would a pagan or a tax collector.

Belief in Christ's Church is necessarily, logically prior to belief in the inerrant and inspired nature of the Bible.

Besides, Luther's doctrine of "the Bible alone" isn't in the Bible.

[Joshua]

"Where in the Bible does it enumerate all the hoops one must jump through to become a Saint? "

John 3:16

[Conservative til I die]

Where in the Bible does it enumerate all the hoops one must jump through to become a Saint?

THe part where Jesus called Peter the rock and said He would build His Church upon Him and empowered him to bind and loose in Heaven and Earth. Our Church didn't die with Jesus.

[Cvengr]

Where in the Bible does it enumerate all the hoops one must jump through to become a Saint?

All throughout, simply return to Him so he may return to you, and sin no more. If one does sin, as everybody does, continue to confess those sins to Him in repentence and remain in fellowship with Him,...and viola,..you're a saint.