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To: Mrs. Don-o
Dear friend,

There is one thing alone that makes one a saint - and it is not miracles - or the Egyptian magicians who replicated Moses' signs would also qualify as saints.

That one thing makes every believer a saint from the moment of believing faith. It is entrusting yourself to Christ and His sacrifice alone - with no self-effort, miracles, works, etc.

His Righteousness is transferred immediately to the entrusting believer at the moment of salvation. What the new believer's self-efforts could not do to earn righteousness no longer matters. God imputes the righteousness of Christ, baptizes them into the Body of Christ and gives them eternal life. From that moment, they are God's Holy Ones.

If the believer now has the life of Christ in them, it will be expressed in the quality of life they lead. To the degree they live a life of good works, they will be rewarded when believers go before the throne - or they will suffer loss, though they themselves will be saved.

To teach otherwise is to add to Scripture.

I dearly hope and wish that Teresa had entrusted herself to Christ alone for salvation before her death and truly was a saint. If she did not, there are no number of works, miracles, prayers nor declarations that can ever make here one now.

50 posted on 08/29/2016 8:31:16 AM PDT by aMorePerfectUnion
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To: aMorePerfectUnion
Of course, everyone who is a saint, is a saint because of a miracle: a miracle of God's grace.

But Good also has the power to send signs --- like curing a dying man --- to communicate His favor. You think He does not?

Or do you really thing Satan would cure a dying man, because the man's family engaged the whole Body of Christ in intercessory prayer?

56 posted on 08/29/2016 9:07:47 AM PDT by Mrs. Don-o ("The Catholic Church is for saints and sinners alone. For respectable people, Anglicanism will do.")
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