That’s a respectable position for you to take. But the irony is that shortly after the Reformers destroyed all the bodies of the Saints, they went and glorified the likes of Martin Luther, King James, King Henry VIII, and their descendents in America went on to glorify George Washington, Abraham Lincoln, Robert E. Lee, Martin Luther King, Franklin Roosevelt, Teddy Roosevelt, Stonewall Jackson, and so forth. And whereas the Saints were glorified in a context that made plain that their glory was the reflected glory of Christ, these latter glorifications glory solely in the image of the dead.
—— But the irony is that shortly after the Reformers destroyed all the bodies of the Saints,they went and glorified the likes of Martin Luther, King James, King Henry VIII -——
Protestants can scoff, but the most obvious example of this in our country is city names. Spanish Catholic cities are named St. Augustine, The Angels, The Sacrament, Saint Diego, Body of Christ, etc.
Protestant cities? Jamestown, Williamsburg, etc.
I am a born-again believer in Jesus and I am a saint...I do not know if any of those people you have mentioned were born again or not but if they were then they too are saints in God’s eyes. We are considered justified as saints by believing in the atoning work of Jesus on the cross and by nothing else.
I believe there will be Reformed, Protestant, and Catholic saints in heaven, and all will have arrived there because they placed their trust in Jesus and not in a religion or building or institution.
God bless,
jodyel