Who Are Saints and What Are the Determining Factors That Make a Saint, a Saint?

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Who are the saints? Who or what makes a human being a saint or who decides who is a saint and who isn't? Can a man, a mere mortal, have the authority to decide who is or who is not, a saint? Do saints have halos and do we have to earn sainthood? Can we buy sainthood? Does sainthood come as some kind of award or reward like a knighthood? Should we worship saints? As always, so many questions and so many weird and wonderful ideas about this subject and nearly all of them, as is the mainstream Christian norm, wrong - why are these ideas wrong? Quite simply, because they emanate from the pagan based Christian Religion which, as you know, if you have read any of my other articles, is invariably, if not always, wrong,

Now this study should be fairly straight forward, for it is not a complex subject, but it is a complex subject for those in the Christian Religion, because they, as is their want, like to make everything complex. You see once you make something complex you can blind people with all manner of philosophical and religious mumbo jumbo ideas and get away with it. Anyway, 2 Corinthians 11:3 The simplicity that is in Christ, it ain't.

So, with the above in mind let's answer these questions: Who are the saints and what makes a saint, a saint? Well if we look at 1 Corinthians 1:2 it tells us:

1 Corinthians 1:2 Unto the church of God which is at Corinth, to them that are sanctified in Christ Jesus, called to be saints, with all that in every place call upon the name of Jesus Christ our Lord, both theirs and ours:

Notice the words 'to be' saints are in italics in the KJV which means these words were added by the translators, but should they be there, for grammatically the sentence works just fine without them, so let's write it out just to show how it works: "Unto the church of God which is at Corinth, to them that are sanctified in Christ Jesus, called saints." There we are, all very easy, simple and straight forward, so why are those two words there? That's easy too, because the translators couldn't believe it could be that simple. OK, let's have a look at the Greek rendering for more evidence and to see what we can reveal:

To the out-called of-the God the one being in Corinth having been Holyized in Anointed (Christ) Jesus called Holy-ones together to-all......

There we are, again, as plain as plain can be, those who are called of God the Father are Holyized (that's a good word isn't it, I like that?) or sanctified (Please note sanctification is not a process and I will be writing an article on this topic soon) and then we're called Holy-ones which means we're called saints - period. We're not called 'to be' saints, nor are we called to be made Holy, for as soon as we're called by the Father God to His Son the Lord Jesus Christ we're saints and we're Holy and that's all there is to it. Now here is an interesting thing, at this point in the article I have written 550 words or so and have already proven what or who a saint is - all very simple. However, to answer the other questions it will require I write another 1,500 + in order to sort out all the religious twaddle and nonsense associated with what these religious types think constitutes a saint.

I have answered the first two questions so on to the third, which is: Can a man, a mere mortal, have the authority to decide who is or who is not, a saint? Well, can they? Obviously not, for we have already determined that it's the Father God who decides who is to be a saint i.e. those He calls to His Son - The Lord Jesus Christ. So if we read in the press that the Pope is to make some fella, who died for his Roman Catholic beliefs 1,200 years ago, a saint, what are we to make of it? What are we dealing with here? Well that's pretty obvious isn't it, we already know that if a person is called by God he or she becomes a saint so what is Rome up to? Well we know don't we, they're humanising, trivialising and mocking sainthood. They are making a Spiritual event a human event and all based upon human intellectual reasoning. The Pope is acting like a monarch who bestows honours on loyal subjects for what they have done in service to the monarch and/or to the nation. When it comes to military honours these can be awarded posthumously by a king or queen, so just like them the Pope does the same with Roman Catholic 'saintly honours', so clearly we're dealing with rewards or honours for services rendered, but as I have already proven, this is not what sainthood is about.

Without any shadow of doubt, sainthood is part of the undeserved free gift of salvation - it's a title we carry as people who are called of God. If we then add in the dimension that this fella will have died in vain for a meaningless religion we now have the ludicrous scenario of a man having died in vain now receiving his 'saintly' orders 1,200 years too late! Can you believe this stuff? You had better because old Papa is often doing it and it's him and his sidekicks that decide whether or not these wretched people are made saints. This means they turn sainthood or the making of saints into a total farce, and of course, inwardly, that is their intention.

Furthermore, if we analyse their system(s) of the Pope and other sundry underlings deciding whether or not a person is a saint or not or worthy enough to be even considered for sainthood we have yet more evidence of their falseness for what in effect we have is choice of saints determined by committee? When did The Lord Jesus Christ ever instruct anyone to determine things by a committee? Please feel free to search the Holy Scriptures to prove this true or false, but personally I wouldn't waste my time. As stated, they even make people who have been dead for centuries, saints. Do you think these people are thankful or impressed by being made a saint a thousand or so years after they died, especially when they are not aware they are being made a saint - they are dead after all, so who do you think benefits from this meaningless charade? Certainly not the recipient that's for sure, so what's it all about? Just more religious form, ritual and trickery to continue the illusion that they are who they think they are - the Church, when all the while they are just counterfeiters playing tricks on their deluded followers.

Next question; do saints have halos and do we have to earn sainthood, for these two things are the most common fallacious ideas that are banded about all over the place, even by the secular media. They will often portray 'saints' as angelic looking people with things called halos just above their heads, but where did these 'saintly' images originate, for they are certainly not Biblical? Well, surprise, surprise; would you believe it? If we do a little research on the dear old web, we discover that halos are pagan in origin and represent the sun as a circle of light over the head of an individual who, in turn, would think he or she was a god. The Romans were rather keen on this idea of being a god, such was their 'humility', so should we be shocked if the Holy Roman Empire continued with this blasphemous pagan imagery? No, not at all, so on to the next part of the question. For further help on Holy Roman Empire history, please see my series of articles entitled Mystery, Babylon The Great, The Mother Of Harlots And Abominations Of The Earth.

So what about us earning our sainthood? Well, we might as well ask what about us earning our salvation, for it is equivalent to asking the same question. So that proves we cannot earn sainthood.

OK, so we've ascertained that it's not an award or a reward for anything we've done but can we buy sainthood? Well there are some who think we can and if not actually openly purchased then certainly bartered or negotiated for. The 'church' in Rome has been doing this for centuries. You do this or that for the church and rest assured sainthood awaits you as your reward for all your efforts. This is no different to our 'friend' Mr Simon Magus who attempted to buy the Holy Spirit from Peter. All that's different is that services rendered are put in place of hard cash and the spirit of this evil is just the same. This is how the counterfeit church has been managed down through the centuries beginning with that Simon individual in the first century. You will find this infamous story in Acts 8.

Let's be sure about this, a saint can only be one kind of person - a person who is called of the Father God to His Son the Lord Jesus Christ to be Born of God - Born Again. No one else can be a saint and they are certainly not made saints by men. So let's see what other evidence the Holy Scriptures have to say about the Saints.

Phil 4:21 Salute every saint in Christ Jesus. The brethren which are with me greet you.

Romans 8:27 And he that searcheth the hearts knoweth what is the mind of the Spirit, because he maketh intercession for the saints according to the will of God

Romans 12:13; 15:25-26; 15:31; 16:2; 16:15.

As we can see from Philippians 4:21 Saints are in Christ Jesus and that means He is them via His Holy Spirit and it's these things that determine whether or not we are saints - nothing else. I'm not going to write out all these verses here, but a swift read of them quickly tells us that saints are not made by, nor are they appointed by, men. The name or title 'saint' is just another term to describe a son or daughter of God. A saint is a Christian brother or sister of the Lord Jesus Christ and don't let anyone tell you any different. If they do don't argue with them just laugh and walk away.

Finally, should we worship saints on saint's days, for Rome has a saint for every day of the year so I am told and I stand to be corrected on this, but I do know they have saints days galore. It's on these days when the patron saint of that day is revered and worshiped, but is this a Biblical practice? Should we be revering men and women in such a way? Well if we follow Paul's and Peter's examples, this Roman Catholic ritual is looking highly suspect - highly suspect indeed.

Acts 10:25-26 And as Peter was coming in, Cornelius met him, and fell down at his feet, and worshipped him. 26 But Peter took him up, saying, Stand up; I myself also am a man.

Here we can see where Peter corrected Cornelius when in ignorance he bowed down to worship Peter - we do not worship saints.

Paul also had a similar problem:

1 Cor 1:11-13 For it hath been declared unto me of you, my brethren, by them which are of the house of Chloe, that there are contentions among you. 12 Now this I say, that every one of you saith, I am of Paul; and I of Apollos; and I of Cephas; and I of Christ. 13 Is Christ divided? was Paul crucified for you? or were ye baptized in the name of Paul?

In turn, again, we can see Paul correcting the brethren, because there were contentious issues regarding who was to be revered and here we can see they had elevated men up on a platform, a platform level with the Lord Jesus Christ himself. This resulted in Paul asking them if Christ was divided or does The Lord now have to compete with equals? This means that when we elevate men to a level equivalent to Christ i.e. the worship of saints we are dividing Christ and this is an evil blasphemy against Christ. So the next time you attend a 'church' service in honour of a saint just remember what you are actually doing.

I hope you have enjoyed my little expose of all things Saintly and not so saintly - in fact the latter are not saints at all. Out of interest the second part of this article was 1,606 words.