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"So, just which verse of Scripture has 30,000 different interpretations?"

I have never asserted that each or any single verse of the there are 35,526 verses in the Roman Catholic are interpreted 30,000+ ways. That is a monumental strawman. What I have asserted is that every one of those 30,000+ denominations differ from all other on the meaning of at least one verse at any given point in time.

I understand your attempt to direct this back to me. The position of much of Protestantism is indefensible and it is an impossible position to disprove since each Protestant develops and holds his or her own interpretations and doctrines.

It is fair to say that the Pareto principle applies to Protestantism with 20% of the denominations containing 80% of all Protestants and the remaining 80% of denominations containing the remaining 20% of Protestants. If doctrinal differences were the only criteria for assessing the number of Protestant denominations the number of denominations would approach the number of Protestants whose governing principle is nothing more than Semper Gumby (always flexible).

Peace be with you

What I have asserted is that every one of those 30,000+ denominations differ from all other on the meaning of at least one verse at any given point in time.

So what?

Who cares?

If it's a matter not connected to one's salvation, we have clear instruction from Paul on it in Romans 14.

Romans 14:1-12

As for the one who is weak in faith, welcome him, but not to quarrel over opinions. 2 One person believes he may eat anything, while the weak person eats only vegetables. 3 Let not the one who eats despise the one who abstains, and let not the one who abstains pass judgment on the one who eats, for God has welcomed him. 4 Who are you to pass judgment on the servant of another? It is before his own master that he stands or falls. And he will be upheld, for the Lord is able to make him stand.

5 One person esteems one day as better than another, while another esteems all days alike. Each one should be fully convinced in his own mind. 6 The one who observes the day, observes it in honor of the Lord. The one who eats, eats in honor of the Lord, since he gives thanks to God, while the one who abstains, abstains in honor of the Lord and gives thanks to God. 7 For none of us lives to himself, and none of us dies to himself. 8 For if we live, we live to the Lord, and if we die, we die to the Lord. So then, whether we live or whether we die, we are the Lord's. 9 For to this end Christ died and lived again, that he might be Lord both of the dead and of the living.

10 Why do you pass judgment on your brother? Or you, why do you despise your brother? For we will all stand before the judgment seat of God; 11 for it is written, “As I live, says the Lord, every knee shall bow to me, and every tongue shall confess to God.”

12 So then each of us will give an account of himself to God.

The Catholic church can't even keep its catechism the same, much less interpretation of Scripture, even when they do get around to offering one. It certainly is in no position to cast stones about consistency in interpreting Scripture.

>>The position of much of Protestantism is indefensible and it is an impossible position to disprove since each Protestant develops and holds his or her own interpretations and doctrines.<<

Each Protestant ey? How about each Catholic that votes for canidadates who vote for abortion? How about gay Priests? How about the Kennedys? How about the thousands maybe millions of Catholics who want same sex marriage? Any of those “hold his or her own interpretations and doctrines”?