That describes the problem, not the solution.
There is one truth, you don’t get to choose what it is.
Abortion is right or wrong.
On every issue from baptismal method, necessity , regeneration , priesthood, massively different views on salvation, remarriage. Sacraments , Eucharist , lgbt issues, role of suffering , purgation etc etc etc , even modalism rather than trinity! (Some Pentecostals) There is almost every permutation out there.
Choosing all but one permutation is in essence choosing falsehood. Personal taste doesn’t ( or shouldn’t )come in to it.
It also illustrates the essence of the problem. Authority.
when a dispute takes place over doctrine, only the RC church claims a method to resolve it.
Calvin, Luther and zwingli had very different views on many subjects, their essential problem was sola scriptura , that there was then no way to resolve disputes other than endless schism, and in outlawing authority they also outlawed the New Testament, a product of the authority they outlawed. I also thought Luther somewhat dishonest, in disavowing the so called apocryphal books which he knew were in the septuagint: just because he disliked the theology. History shows RC didn’t add them, they were always there. Luther removed them! By what authority?
The myth of perspecuity of scripture. It clearly isn’t even so on fundamentals!
Protestants often seem United only in declaring Catholicism wrong, which rather deflects focus on the massive divisions in Protestantism.
I left Anglicanism for several reasons, one was lack of certainty over Eucharistic doctrine and practice, but equally big , it became apparent that the Anglican synod lacked unity over too many issues. How so if there is only one truth?
The question is “ where is authority” ?
That’s no disrespect to my Anglican friends, I met many holy people I admired along the way.
But the doctrinal disputes were a problem for me.
I believe that for most people the history in no way influences their selection of a denomination. People who spend time analyzing different denominational beliefs make their selection based on what is most compatible with their personal beliefs. Most people do not even get into that depth.
