Catholic Saints vs Protestant Saints vs Orthodox Saints

Catholic and Protestant and Orthodox Christianity all trace themselves back to the same Bible, the same early church, and the same original list of people they considered holy — but right now, in 2024, they can't agree on who the saints are, how they get that title, or whether the dead can hear you at all. This video breaks down the real theological divide behind saint veneration: the Catholic canonization process and its five-stage system, the Orthodox understanding of theosis and how saints are recognized, the Protestant rejection of intercession and why some reformers called it necromancy, and the specific cases — Christopher, George, Mary Magdalene — that reveal how deep the fracture actually runs. Including the one verse in the Old Testament that Catholics and Orthodox use to defend relics, and why Protestants say it proves nothing of the kind. 00:00 The same church, three completely different systems 01:34 What the word "saint" actually means — and why the traditions split on vocabulary first 04:33 How Catholics make saints: the five-stage canonization process 06:30 How Orthodox saints are recognized — and why Moscow and Constantinople don't always agree 07:24 The Oriental Orthodox fracture: Ethiopian and Coptic saints Rome has never heard of 08:11 Luther and Calvin: why Protestants dismantled the entire machinery 09:07 The necromancy charge — and the Catholic and Orthodox counter-argument 10:16 Latria vs dulia: the worship distinction that five hundred years of debate hasn't resolved 11:35 Saints that only exist in one tradition: George, Mary Magdalene, the English martyrs 14:54 Relics, bones, and the iconoclast controversy 17:29 Is death a wall or a threshold? The question underneath everything 18:16 Vatican II, Lumen Gentium, and why Protestantism still didn't move #saints #catholicism #orthodoxchristianity #protestantism #comparativereligion #theology #churchhistory #theschism #religiondebate #christianity