A gatekeeper keeps its standing only while the criterion it judges by is observable: move the criterion to something nobody outside the person can see, and the gatekeeper becomes a building manager. Ansary: works "are visible" and the church could judge them, but "no outside observer can know if a person has faith"; if faith trumped works, the clergy "couldn't even know who was getting in," and kings could appoint such factotums. That this is why weight on our checking side must rest on an observable track record rather than on a property like species that cannot be checked is Leo's step.

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Works are visible. Anyone can see whether a person is praying and whether or not he or she is doing it correctly.
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No outside observer can know if a person has faith.
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In fact, if faith trumped works, they couldn't even know who was getting in.
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And if the officers of the church were not the instruments of grace, but mere building managers, they were no different than the janitors who kept the church clean

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