If you have believed in Jesus that He died for you and, risen from the dead, He is your saviour and righteousness, according to the Bible, you ARE ALREADY A SAINT- separated to God and precious to Him.

However,
according to the leadership of the catholic church, apart from being a catholic, to become a saint

1. you must have lived an exemplary and pious life,

2. performed at least two miracles and

3. you must have died

This is very different from what the Bible in Colossians 1:12 says, that God Himself has qualified us-not just to be saints but to partake of all the inheritance of the saints, He only requires us to live like that too. God's word in the Bible is given for correction of even the Pope (2 Timothy 3:16-17) but, as Jesus warned, religious TRADITIONS can make the word of God of no effect in people.

BIBLE EVIDENCES AGAINST CATHOLIC SAINTHOOD

PIOUS PEOPLE?

According to God's word, it is not because of what you have done, rather it is what God Himself decided to make all His people to be.
This can be noted in the commands given to those who are ALREADY SAINTS of God

i. Psalm 31:23

"Oh, love the LORD (Yahweh), all you His saints! For the LORD preserves the faithful."


ii. Psalm 34:9
"Oh, fear the LORD, you His saints! There is no want to those who fear Him."

Why give such instructions to saints if that is what is required to be saints?

iii. Also, we see Apostle Paul address his letters to the saints or the churches of the saints, yet in the letters he gives them instructions on how saints ought to conduct themselves. For example

Ephesians 1:1 reads

" Paul, an apostle of Jesus Christ by the will of God,
To the saints WHO ARE IN EPHESUS..."

And in Ephesians 5:3,6 he says,


"But fornication (sex with someone you are not married to) and all uncleanness or covetousness , let it not even be named among you, AS IS FITTING FOR SAINTS... Let no one deceive you with empty words, for because of these things the wrath of God comes upon the sons of disobedience."

iv. Peter also wrote as an apostle of Jesus Christ to all the Christians in Pontus, Galatia, Cappadocia, Asia, and Bithynia and called all of them saints.

"YOU ARE a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, a HOLY NATION, His own special people that you may proclaim the praises of Him Who brought you out of darkness into His marvelous light."(1Peter 2:9)

The Greek word translated as "holy" ( hagios) in the above passage is the same word translated "saint" all through the new testament. So the whole nation of Christians are saints already.


FIRST DIE?

It is also obvious from the forgoing that the saints according to the Bible are all Christians and so they became AND WERE ADDRESSED AS SAINTS while living somewhere physically on earth.

- We've seen that the whole church members in Ephesus were called saints above (Ephesians 1:1)
The Bible also has record of

- Saints at Jerusalem (Acts 9:13)

- Saints who live in Lydda (Acts 9:32) etc

So they were regarded as saints while they live. No ceremonies required and no distinction among Christians as it concerns who was saint.


MIRACLES?

There is not one Bible passage that supports the concept that performing a miracle qualifies you to become saints talk less two.

To the contrary, we have Bible passages that show that being a saint is not why you can perform miracle.
Example: After performing a miracle, Apostle Peter himself- whom Catholics say the church was founded on- said to those who were amazed:

"Men of Israel.. why look so intently at us, AS THOUGH BY OUR OWN POWER AND GODLINESS we had made this man walk?" (Acts 3:12)


This is clear and we should submit to God's word regardless of who we are and accept what God says about us, rather than make everything about some privileged few.