This is a typical foolish and sophomoric as well as out of context analysis. No one denies that Christ has the final answer, but His Church can validate that the saintly lives and martyrs of His followers are in paradise. Only an idiot will deny that St. Peter and St. Paul are not saints.
No one denies that all power is with Christ. But through His power and at His command His apostles were invested with the power to forgive sins in His name.
>> “but His Church can validate that the saintly lives and martyrs of His followers are in paradise” <<
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That is nuts, and grossly anti-scriptural.
Christ told his disciples that the tares could not be identified and rooted out of the church, and that his angels only were up to that task.
Humans cannot see into another’s heart.
>> “His apostles were invested with the power to forgive sins in His name” <<
Just a misunderstanding. The forgiveness of sin was evidenced by the healings, but Revelation makes clear that there were 12, and only 12 apostles, thus none alive today.
That doesn’t mean that there are not men with spiritual gifts today; clearly there are, but the apostleship was for a special time, under special conditions.