There seems to be reoccurringzween the original Temple service of the religion teaching the importance of pure hearts and good deeds that effects this and thereafter lives, and becoming overtaken by the corrupt priests who then sell the forgiveness for the sins and assurances for the afterlife, that they claim is on behalf of God.
Then a hero comes along to save the day, in the Old Testament it was Moses aka Akhenaten, who rebelled against the corrupt Amunet priests selling Divine mercy and forgivness, and in the New Testament it was Jesus, Caesarion of course, who famously confronted the equally corrupt pharisees and sadducees priests in the Jerusalem Temple.
Then Martin Luther with Protestant Reformation. Wikipedia, "He strongly disputed the Catholic view on indulgences. Luther proposed an academic discussion of the practice and efficacy of indulgences in his Ninety-five Theses of 1517. Luther taught that salvation and, consequently, eternal life are not earned by good deeds but are received only as the free gift of God's grace through the believer's faith in Jesus Christ as redeemer from sin."* It seems to be the reoccurring pattern.
*https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_Luther
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