this posits two assumptions, that 1) the path to good is through a single gatekeeper (how convenient for said entity), and 2) all dependent on your view that human beings are inherently sinful. while that’s part of a bigger conversation, I would personally take the stance that maybe sin isn’t such a terrible thing. nature is inherently sinful, full of horrors, but does that make it wrong or bad? and even if it were, then it goes back to my first question: why must the church have exclusive authority on my pathway to salvation. maybe I found god in my work as a carpenter or tailor. my point is, to each their own and gatekeepers or authorities make me suscipsious