Severance usually refers to loss or separation. It's a severe thing, to be cut off from Jesus. It is not as if we are his employees; we are all children of God. This is the theological discussion of youth, one that is often subject to great debate (infant baptism, etc.) If one dies without having known Jesus, or lacking the ability to (intellectual disability/mental block) know, in the relevant sense, the Good News, then what happens to the innocent? We are all guilty of sin, without objection. Scripture dovetails this tension: all you have to see is there-being divinity. And this belief is called Christian when one is baptized. Theology picks up here, in contemplating that in a serious way. It's a separate discipline, frequently a discipline of separation from material condition. Irregularities exist, and yet its telos is traditionally to pursue Christ, who was without sin. The significance of this statement is put in theological language; and the jargon causes many to lack belief. There is, however, a logic to it: it's the logos of the temple, this festivity, observing God, etc.