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My JW friend explains that there are no saint(s) just saint and that is Jesus Christ alone. i want to prove to him from the bible’s stand point that saints refer to a group of people that holds a special place in God’s throne. I explained that our saints are like their 144,000 anointed ones but in the our (Catholic) view, the souls of saints are immediately assumed into heaven.

Basically, i just want to prove to them that saints are plural and does not refer to the Lord Jesus alone but to the apostles and other holy ones.
 
Fidei said:
My JW friend explains that there are no saint(s) just saint and that is Jesus Christ alone. i want to prove to him from the bible’s stand point that saints refer to a group of people that holds a special place in God’s throne. I explained that our saints are like their 144,000 anointed ones but in the our (Catholic) view, the souls of saints are immediately assumed into heaven.

Basically, i just want to prove to them that saints are plural and does not refer to the Lord Jesus alone but to the apostles and other holy ones.
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Hi, Fidei. Just want to clarify one thing. The saints in heaven are not just the canonized saints of the Church who have gone immediately into heaven. It is also those who are in heaven now who have had to spend time in purgatory first, like our relatives and friends who may (or may not yet) be in heaven with God. They aren’t necessarily canonized, like St. Joseph, but they are in heaven and are considered “saints” in the eyes of the Church.

God bless.
 
You too can become a saint…what else is there?! Strive to be holy.
 
Fidei said:
My JW friend explains that there are no saint(s) just saint and that is Jesus Christ alone. i want to prove to him from the bible’s stand point that saints refer to a group of people that holds a special place in God’s throne. I explained that our saints are like their 144,000 anointed ones but in the our (Catholic) view, the souls of saints are immediately assumed into heaven.

Basically, i just want to prove to them that saints are plural and does not refer to the Lord Jesus alone but to the apostles and other holy ones.
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Matthew 27:52 NRSA
The tombs also were opened, and many bodies of the saints who had fallen asleep were raised

1 Corinthians 6:2 NRSA
Do you not know that the saints will judge the world? And if the world is to be judged by you, are you incompetent to try trivial cases?

Ephesians 1:18 NRSA
so that, with the eyes of your heart enlightened, you may know what is the hope to which he has called you, what are the riches of his glorious inheritance among the saints,

Ephesians 2:19 NRSA
So then you are no longer strangers and aliens, but you are citizens with the saints and also members of the household of God,

1 Thessalonians 3:13 NRSA
And may he so strengthen your hearts in holiness that you may be blameless before our God and Father at the coming of our Lord Jesus with all his saints.

Revelation 5:8 NRSA
When he had taken the scroll, the four living creatures and the twenty-four elders fell before the Lamb, each holding a harp and golden bowls full of incense, which are the prayers of the saints

Revelation 8:3 NRSA
Another angel with a golden censer came and stood at the altar; he was given a great quantity of incense to offer with the prayers of all the saints on the golden altar that is before the throne.

Revelation 8:4 NRSA
And the smoke of the incense, with the prayers of the saints, rose before God from the hand of the angel.
 
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