“And, I certainly don’t need a hierarchical structure to save me.
No, but you can bet rejecting it, damns you.”
Says who? A pope who was damned as a heretic by a council of his own bishops?
Don’t you think its just a tad over the top to suggest that our Ineffable God has decreed that all who reject the hierarchial structure of the Latin Church are damned?
I think you believe I accept the original premise...that would be wrong. But I do believe Romans teaches us willful rejection is damnable.
Furthermore, please recall the apostasy of Korah written of in Jude was to gainsay the authority of Moses.