You Don’t Need To Do Miracles To Be A Saint

In the Bible, the word ‘saint’ is given to all who believe in Jesus. It’s not about what you do, it’s about having your trust in Jesus. Glenn Davies has written a great article on it.

Here’s a snippet:

Put simply, anyone whose sins have been forgiven by God, through faith in Jesus Christ, is a saint. Through God’s Holy Spirit, faith in Jesus makes us whole, indeed “holy”. It is not the achievements of a person’s life, but rather the gift of God through Christ, that makes us saints. Anyone looking at the letters of the Saint Paul can see how he writes to ordinary Christians as “saints”. It is not some rarefied title, but the humbling appellation that reminds us we belong to God and in his sight we are “holy”.

The second problem with the Roman Catholic Church’s process of canonisation is that it obscures the importance of God’s description of his people and replaces it with a human analysis of miracle working. Who can prove that the reported miracles were actually the work of Mary MacKillop? Did the persons healed pray to only Mary or did they not also pray to God? Even if they prayed to Mary MacKillop, what evidence is there that it was Mary MacKillop’s intercession that healed them? Furthermore, what evidence is there in the Bible that the departed saints (I use the term advisedly) pray for us?

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One Reply to “You Don’t Need To Do Miracles To Be A Saint”

  1. This very Protestant attitude is just a sign of how dumbed down religion has become since the time of the “Reformation”.

    By contrast please check out this reference which points out that True Sainthood only begins to appear with the Spiritualization of the entire body-mind structure in the Fourth Stage of life–and not before.

    By contrast Protestanism is a “religion” which reduces human beings to the non-Spiritual first 3 stages of life only, and thus actively prevents people from growing into a truly spirit-breathing Spiritual Way of life.

    http://www.aboutadidam.org/growth/seven_stages.html

    Also

    http://www.adidam.org/teaching/aletheon/truth-religion.aspx

    By your definition of “saint”- hood, the USA which is saturated by self-righteous Protestants should be the most benign country on the planet.

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