@kjw47,
Churches absolve people of their crimes. Say you are a child molester that has molested 10 children. You go to your local church that tells you that you are saved. What is required to get saved? That you accept Jesus Christ as your savior. Guilt? Why feel guilty when Jesus Christ has saved you? What about the next 10 children you are going to molest? There is always another church that can "save" you.
Don't you think that a low-level preacher should not be able to say that you are saved the word should come the top? You should at least get a certified letter from Jesus saying you were saved. Jesus sees all knows all and therefore is in a better place to make a decision.
One day Jesus was in his office when his secretary came in and said Jeffery Epstein was there and he wanted to know if it was too late to get saved? Jesus said 500 girls molested is just too many if it had only been 400, we might have been able to work with him. Jesus said by the way the devil has dibs on Trump check and see if he has any openings down there.