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original vs. common usage jkunkel - 8/11/2004 11:30
The Roman church changed the definition of "saint", assigning a bureaucracy to determine who might have been "good enough" (clearly taking the judgement task away from God). Clearly Luke, in Acts and Paul, in many letters, use "saint" to mean "believer".

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