It's not all herds of cats. Churches merge as well as split. There never was a promise that, before the end, everyone (or even anyone) would get the bible totally figured out. Some of it, like the Revelation, is like the promos for a movie that hasn't been released to the theaters. The great evangelical call is to believe on the Lord Jesus Christ as the ticket in; God will work out the other details later. There is wide inter-church recognition of this even as there is disagreement on details.
"It's not all herds of cats. Churches merge as well as split. There never was a promise that, before the end, everyone (or even anyone) would get the bible totally figured out. Some of it, like the Revelation, is like the promos for a movie that hasn't been released to the theaters. The great evangelical call is to believe on the Lord Jesus Christ as the ticket in; God will work out the other details later. There is wide inter-church recognition of this even as there is disagreement on details."
To a certain extent, you are correct. But, then, it gets more complicated. When you've listened to as many people as I have offering interpretations of scripture, you begin to understand that there is little commonality. Yes, Christianity starts with "Jesus Saves," but that's about the limit of commonality. Everything after that starts getting screwy.