[Nervous Tick]

And you believe a pope solves all of this? Like Catholicism has been invariant in its teachings since the first century?

LOL

[Cronos]

Nope, I know this. If you take scripture ALONE without any other discussions with others or reading of commentaries, you have the wide varieties of fundamental differences.

As I asked you: What is your stand on:

1. something as basic as Jesus was always God (Trinitarian position) or that Jesus Christ was man made God (Oneness PENTECOSTAL Protestant position) or the Angel Michael (Seventh Day Adventist Ellen G White teaching) -- all three use scripture alone to justify their points of view and have three diverge in their points of view
2. he REAL Presence of Christ in the Eucharist (Lutheran, some Anglicans, maybe even Methodists), or is it just a symbol (as your post said)?
3. talking in tongues -- does one HAVE to talk in tongues (Oneness Pentecostal) to display faith or not?
4. and the episcopate (bishops etc.) -- some who have scripture alone have it, some don't
5. Do you read in scripture alone whether Baptism is for infants and sufficient (Presbyterian etc.) or not (Baptists)?
6. God pre-damns people to hell (Calvinism) or not (others)
7. Jesus came only for the salvation of a few (Calvinists) or he was Savior of the world (everyone else)?
8. agree or disagree with soul sleep?
9. worshipping on a Sunday (Presbyterians, Pentecostals etc.) or not (Seventh Day Adventists)
10. agree with the Adventists that one should follow kosher laws or not?
11. and spiritual gifts like prophecy amongst us (Pentecostals) or not (Presbyterians)
12. "slain in the spirit" (Pentecostalism) or not (Presbyterianism, Lutheranism etc)
13. Regeneration comes through Baptism (Lutheranism) or not (Baptists)
14. do you read that grace can be resisted (Pentecostalism, Lutheranism, Methodism) or not (Calvinism)
15. is baptism is three-fold (Mennonites) or not?
16. imputed righteousness (Calvinism) or not (Mennonites)

[Cronos]

It's been pretty consistent -- the Apostolic Church as a whole (Catholics, Orthodox, Orientals, Assyrians) -- i'll even add in confessional, conservative Lutherans, Anglicans etc. who stick close to orthodoxy.

The celebration of divine liturgy/mass and the beliefs as encapsulated in the Creed are consistent from the beginnings.

More critically, when there were differences, the solution is not to hive off but to sit together and pray as a community.