Posted by
Jesse "The Mind" Norman on Monday, November 17, 2008 11:12:00 AM
What God sees as a saint is far different than what men do. For some reason men have raised standards for sainthood far past God’s standards. The Catholic church makes it impossible in their own doctrine to become a saint. According to the Catholic church, a person has to perform three miracles in order to be qualified for canonization. That in itself is an error. No man performs a miracle. God does through that man or woman. That’s something the Catholic church should know on their own.
To become a saint in God’s eyes all a person has to do is have their faith in Jesus as the Messiah intact. Everyone who dies with their faith is a saint. Everyone. There are many, many saints upon this Earth right now. As is written in Ephesians 1:1, there were saints in Ephesus Paul wrote to. Those were just people who were Christians. People who accepted Christ fully in their hearts and humbled themselves before their Lord. Not people who brought fire out of the sky or healed the lame by having a missing limb grow back. As if men on their own had the ability to do that anyway. In Revelation 20 which is about the next age after Jesus returns, Jesus will reign on Earth with his saints for a thousand years. That is everyone who in this life has made the right choice will be here reaping their rewards and being with their loved ones, at least those who made the right choice. Not just those who Catholic doctrine says are saints.
So why do the standards of men far outreach the standards of God? An incredible amount of conceit, that’s why. That’s also why most teachers feel God’s elect are people who just chose Christ, even though the term is GOD’S elect. God’s choice, not man’s. Such highmindedness and self-empowerment is not what God wants us to have. To set standards higher than God’s isn’t something that makes God happy. That’s like saying to a soul that has done great things in the eyes of God “you can be His saint, but you’re not worthy of being one of ours. You should have performed three miracles which were all witnessed as well as this and that and then you could have joined us.” I’d rather be one of God’s saints than a saint in the eyes of men anytime anyway.