To your earlier post: We are not saved by faith alone, so not every believer ends up in heaven. A saint is one who merited heaven; a canonized saint was recognized by the Holy Church to also be worthy of public veneration.
BINGO!!!
We have a winner!
So what we have here is the Catholic church giving its stamp of approval to a clear violation of the Scripture it claims it wrote, condoning and encouraging sin in the life of the Catholic.
James 2:1-13 My brothers, show no partiality as you hold the faith in our Lord Jesus Christ, the Lord of glory. 2 For if a man wearing a gold ring and fine clothing comes into your assembly, and a poor man in shabby clothing also comes in, 3 and if you pay attention to the one who wears the fine clothing and say, “You sit here in a good place,” while you say to the poor man, “You stand over there,” or, “Sit down at my feet,” 4 have you not then made distinctions among yourselves and become judges with evil thoughts? 5 Listen, my beloved brothers, has not God chosen those who are poor in the world to be rich in faith and heirs of the kingdom, which he has promised to those who love him? 6 But you have dishonored the poor man. Are not the rich the ones who oppress you, and the ones who drag you into court? 7 Are they not the ones who blaspheme the honorable name by which you were called?
8 If you really fulfill the royal law according to the Scripture, “You shall love your neighbor as yourself,” you are doing well. 9 But if you show partiality, you are committing sin and are convicted by the law as transgressors. 10 For whoever keeps the whole law but fails in one point has become accountable for all of it. 11 For he who said, “Do not commit adultery,” also said, “Do not murder.” If you do not commit adultery but do murder, you have become a transgressor of the law. 12 So speak and so act as those who are to be judged under the law of liberty. 13 For judgment is without mercy to one who has shown no mercy. Mercy triumphs over judgment.
The Catholic church is not only teaching but encouraging its members to be respecters of persons.
“We are not saved by faith alone, so not every believer ends up in heaven. A saint is one who merited heaven; a canonized saint was recognized by the Holy Church to also be worthy of public veneration.”
What in the world have you been smoking, annalex? I have never heard such complete and utter heresy in my life!!!!!!!!!!
Merited...you mean worked for their salvation. I completely give up on you, annalex. I am not sure you are even capable of understanding anything. There are none so blind as those who will not see.