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Jiang calls the passage subversive because it implies you do not need a priestly intermediary in the strong sense people might expect; the decisive things named are the Bible and the church's broad guidance, not a monopolizing clerical gatekeeper.
Jiang says Jesus taught that human beings have a direct connection to God, whereas the Church taught that sin makes that connection impossible without ecclesial mediation.
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"You don't need the priest, but what do you need?"
"church but they came about because of their harsh criticism criticism of church power and wealth okay and the second thing about the church..."
Paradise first appears as receptivity rather than rank, then the lecture widens into vows, memory, resurrection, original sin, and Jiang's culminating wager that God created humanity because perfection alone cannot imagine.
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