Our failure to live up to moral/ethical standards is a path to atheism because we give up hope of what religion promises and fear what religion warns about, so we lose faith, and for some atheism looks like the only alternative. Jesus knew that and opened a doorway to being with God, and eternally living without death, not only by teaching better religion but by dying the crucifixion death which took the place of the death religion dictates for ethical failure. So Jesus turned it around that way and can turn it around for us over and over in all our trials when we believe that Jesus lives risen from the dead and is alive now and we hold to Jesus’ teachings. Eternity will always be with Jesus and that crucifixion will always forever in eternity pay for life instead of death. So we can and should stop falling short.
