Why are there a Multitude of Differing Christian Organizations?

It is amazing how many different organizations there are, with as many differing ideologies, who all claim the Bible as their foundation.  A well-known scripture in that Book says, "Thy Word is Truth".  But, as Pontius Pilate somewhat rhetorically asked Christ, "What is Truth?"  He probably had not read the Bible at that time but was more likely influenced by the Greek philosophers of his day who spent their whole lives trying to discover exactly what 'Truth' is.

A Truth is something that cannot be gainsayed.  Like gravity.  You can defy gravity for a time--in a plane, hot air balloon or while sailing accidentally over the handlebars of your bike--but eventually what goes up must come down.

In this enlightened age we do not argue that gravity does not exist just because we cannot see it.  In fact, we would all probably agree that gravity is a law--a law that says, Nothing of substance can remain in eath's atmosphere indefinitely without support.

The law of Gravity is always true and therefore I think you'll agree, gravity is a Truth. 

So how can the Word of God--the Bible--be "Truth" if all those different religions do not agree with its interpretation?  Is it really so difficult to find those things that are always true within its pages?  Obviously!

But there is a good reason for this.  Gravity can be easily proven, just as any law of physics, because it deals with the physical.  But the Bible deals with Moral and Spiritual laws and they are not so easy to prove.

I believe that 'situation ethics'--(where your truth isn't necessarily my truth)--is at the heart of the majority of disagreements between religious organizations.  And actually the Bible sums that theory up nicely in another Scripture:

"There is a way that seems right to a man but the end is the way of death." (Proverbs 15:25)

The thousands of differing Christian religions cannot all be right!  The Bible deals in TRUTHS--laws that are immutable.  It tells us there is a way to life and a way to death.  I don't know about you, but that doesn't shout 'situation ethics' to me! 

Yet even Christ Himself did not attempt to make His own people understand such Truths!  Look what He told His diciples about the multitudes He constantly preached to:

"To you it has been given to know the mystery of the kingdom of God; but to those who are outside, all things come in parables, so that 'Seeing they may see and not perceive, And hearing they may hear and not understand; Lest they should turn, and their sins be forgiven them."

On that note let me leave you with this provocative question: Why didn't Christ at least try to make the multitudes understand so that they had a chance to turn to Him and be forgiven of their sins?

Carol