That's their subjective judgment, not mine; everyone, a minster or not has the delegation to apply a judgment, good or bad, on someone; that speaks nothing for what is ultimately true in the grand spectrum of things.
I'd rather not stare into that abyss myself.
Wow, do you think that if you string words together you sound smart? you don't.
We as a society have GIVEN ministers authority to speak for the Imaginary Sky Fairy.
More of your silliness and nonsense.
You're conflating silly graven images, depicting a god, much as they could be used to depict anything, such as Marvin the Martian.
Conflating such childish images, or Jungian archetypes, with God, which is a transcendent reality or abstraction, much as concepts existing in the mind, but not having a physical forum, such as theories of sciences, mathematics, music, and whatnot.
As far as "imaginary", I always laugh at that one - it just being a distortion or oversimplification of what an image or to imagine something even is to begin with.
One can't, for example see "with their own eye" a mathematical proof, or universal law, but rather they use their imaginative faculties to visualize it or give it a physical correspondence to begin with.
Most people's entire lives are "imaginary", or filled with and predicated on imagined notions; if they spent every day wide awake, reality would appear to them as something much different and comprehensive than it is to simpler and more archaic folk, much as God would (as opposed to "gods", "images" and things of similar likeness to superstitious people, modern, ancient, and future)..
The basis of their "authority" is that they spend years and years studying the Bible. So um, yeah, when a minister tells Jeff the Cannibal that he can get his soul cleansed by praying REALLY HARD, and Jeff sincerely believed that, that's on them.
That's a simple argument of authority fallacy, nothing more.