Many.

Eternal punishment/hell is the absence of God. Your choice. God isn't doing it to you, you have intentionally turned your back on God.

Speaking as a Catholic I rather enjoy brutally mocking this nonsense with some harsh sarcasm. Something to the effect of "Aw! How cute! An atheist/religious skeptic who believes in the Protestant doctrine of the perspicuity of Scripture! What else have you got? Can anyone produce an Agnostic who confesses transubstantiation? How about a metaphysical naturalist who believes Sacraments work ex opere operato?".

This premise begs the question. I believe God is maximally clear in revealing precisely what salvation requires in terms of belief and practice by setting up a Church with is the Pillar and Ground of Truth (1 Tim 3:15) which uses Scripture (2 Tim 3:16-17) and Tradition ( 2 Thes 2:15).

I see no logical way God can give us a written document that by itself has this property since all written statements have some level of ambiguity by nature in that they don't exhaustively examine every angle or explain everything.

The atheist who uses this objection on me or any Eastern Orthodox or any group that rejects Protestantism's view of perspicuity has to put on the hat of a Protestant Apologist and first convince me this Luther inspired doctrine is true before he can then turn around and use the 33,000 objection.

It's kind of a non-starter like an Atheist boring me to death with his anti-Young Earth Creationist polemics & well I am a Theistic Evolutionist.

PS. The 33,000 denominations objection which many Catholics use to attack Protestantism is itself questionable. Note his article by the National Catholic Register.

http://www.ncregister.com/blog/scottericalt/we-need-to-stop-saying-that-there-are-33000-protestant-denominations

seems like an issue not exclusive to your religious beliefs.

It's not, and it has nothing to do with my feelings about institutions per se. It's about my unwillingness to believe something just because someone says "You must believe," especially when they also suggest that such unwillingness is a character defect.

It sounds like you are not interested in joining any institution and/or you don't trust any institution, seems like an issue not exclusive to your religious beliefs.

Do you belong to any institutions?

Not at present. I belong to one Facebook group, and I would not define that as an institution.

Do you belong to any institutions?

I was assuming that you were not interested in attending a church that focused mostly on reading the bible.

What I am not interested in is joining any institution that advocates beliefs for which it can offer no cogent arguments in their defense.

Maybe I don't understand what your question is, but I was assuming that you were not interested in attending a church that focused mostly on reading the bible.