There are thousands of people that call themselves Christians that don’t believe works are part of salvation, others that do.
There are thousands who believe God is one being, 3 persons. Others that don’t.
There are thousands that believe God has three “faces”, or modes, but is one being. Others that don’t.
There are thousands who don’t believe Jesus was God at all.
There are thousands who believe Baptism possesses regenerative power, others that dont.
There are thousands who don’t believe in infant baptism, and even call those who do heretics.
There are thousands who insist Jesus will return before the final tribulation to whisk His followers away, and others that dont.
There are thousands who insist “tongues are for today”, and call anyone who questions their version of tongues, “blasphemers of the Holy Spirit”.
There are thousands who believe it’s perfectly ok to have women be pastors of a church, and others that dont.
You don’t think these are significant doctrinal differences, all from the so called “invisible church”, that have all relied upon “Scripture alone as the final rule and authority”?
Honestly?
Thousands who believe in one of two positions.
It is not thousands of different opinions on those topics.
It is disingenuous to portray large numbers of people to be large numbers of opinions on a topic.
Even within a church, the Catholic church included, there is differing opinion on doctrinal issues.
For example, the Catholic church teaches that baptism saves, but there’s not one Catholic who I’ve ever met who is convinced that they are saved because they’ve been baptized.
Likewise, the Catholic church teaches that taking communion is necessary for salvation. What’s with that? I though they taught that baptism was the means? It’s not good enough now? And even Catholics who take communion and *receive* Jesus (as they put it) aren’t certain that they are saved.
And so it goes.