The Church Jesus established is Spiritual, not an institution. The body of Christ is made up of those in whom God has placed the earnest of their inheritance as the spark of the Holy Spirit. That placement CANNOT BE DONE BY MAN, and no one can snatch such a born from above member of Christ's body from God's hands.
Our Lord made it very plain to Nicodemus (John 3), you must be born again by the Grace of God in Christ. Jesus also made it very plain just how that happens: John 6:28 They said therefore unto him, ‘What may we do that we may work the works of God?’ 29 Jesus answered and said to them, ‘This is the work of God, that ye may believe in him whom He did send.’
God made it so simple, yet religions such as catholiciism will empower themselves at the expense of souls, because the catholic hierarchy teaches their sincere followers to strive for eventual Salvation. But one cannot earn Eternal life, for it is a being Whom comes into the dead human spirit, making the person alive in Christ, not the institutional church.
Lol, I love it when someone purports to tell me what “Catholiciism” teaches.
Nice try though.
And ILLUSTRATED it when Jesus responded to the 'good thief':
\...today, you shall be with me...