@BillRM,
Quote:The fantasy repeat fantasy concept of saints on it face is a way to add as element that was missing from the early church to make if more appealing to the pagans the church then wished to convert just as co-oping the times of pagan holidays for claims events in the Christian religion happen to be.
Nope! Because people still claim to be a Prophet, or a Saint today and are canonized...Such as Saint Pio, and Like Pope John Paul II will be...and so will Mother Teresa...But none involved people "believing" they were an actual God....And like I said, if the person was so high on them...I am sure they would have talked to them or others...And the person who was embraced as a God would have said I am not God, or a God, there is only one, and it is Christ....
This is such a feeble line to try to cross...It is not even worth debating....It is simply Futile in every sense!!
I agree, that there maybe 1,000 people on the globe who embrace Christianity, and may think a Saint etc...Is God...But other than that...Nada....
There are more people who have Blind faith indeed, and have seen nothing...then ones who believe a Saint is a form of a God!!! Or a sub-God...the number comparison...Is astronomically higher!!