Mark D. Roberts, among the most prolific bloggers and certainly one of the most productive blogging pastors on the web, is writing a whimsical series on who should be designated as the patron saint of blogging. It's fun, but manages to make some serious points as well.
Mark's series reminds me of my short post on who the "godfather of blogging" might be, here.
Of course, the Roman Catholic conception of sainthood is different from that held by either the New Testament or by Protestants. In Roman tradition, a person is designated as a saint only after they have died, been deemed to have lived a particularly exemplary Christian life, and are usually thought to have played a role in miracles.
But in the New Testament portion of the Bible, a saint is simply a sinner whose sins have been forgiven by virtue of Jesus Christ's life, death, and resurrection and the sinner's faith in Christ. Through their repentant acceptance of Christ, they're not only sinners, but saints. Saints then, are just forgiven sinners.
Several months ago, I wrote another post on the question of "praying to saints." You can find that post here.
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