No one knows who will make it to heaven and no one knows who’s in heaven. Have a great day.
Hmmmmm... Let’s see...
Do I believe God’s Word theough Christ’s hand picked and inspired Apostle...
OR
NKP_vet?????
Woopsie.
That would mean there are no "saints", and that one couldn't even be sure of Mary, the Mother of Christ being there.
Purgatory. Who can be sure that anyone is "there" under the formula you just espoused --- not knowing who is in Heaven, or who is not...
Paul wrote, in the 2nd Epistle to the Corinthians (chapter 5)
5 For we know that if our earthly house, this tent, is destroyed, we have a building from God, a house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens. 2 For in this we groan, earnestly desiring to be clothed with our habitation which is from heaven, 3 if indeed, having been clothed, we shall not be found naked. 4 For we who are in this tent groan, being burdened, not because we want to be unclothed, but further clothed, that mortality may be swallowed up by life. 5 Now He who has prepared us for this very thing is God, who also has given us the Spirit as a guarantee.6 So we are always confident, knowing that while we are at home in the body we are absent from the Lord. 7 For we walk by faith, not by sight. 8 We are confident, yes, well pleased rather to be absent from the body and to be present with the Lord.
Attributed to being said of the Son of God, Jesus Christ himself (John 6:44
No man can come to me, except the Father which hath sent me draw him: and I will raise him up at the last day.
Have a great eternity.
He earned it.
(and that is the blood we drink, and the flesh we eat, His sacrifice, made willingly on his own part, to restore us to Himself)
If that's the case, then there's simply no point in praying to Catholic saints, is there?