This all points out a real problem in Christianity, where there are so many
sects, we must conclude they ALL cannot be right.

Or can they?

Perhaps there is some defining fundamental core in the belief system that
ties it all by IDENTITY into a common thread. Personally, I have defined
two essential 'kinds' of Christians. First are the scripturalists who
define their belief on the written word, often in literal translations.
These people rely heavily on the authority of the bible itself, much as the
common citizen might quote the constitution as the defining authority over
the land. Both are written documents of course, and as we see in the
constitution, in need of some avenue of change that it flex with an ongoing
rising consciousness.

Most 'thinking' Christians use the bible as a loose symbolism where the
'flex' occurs in our brains in an ongoing 'translation' to fit our
environment [as it changes]. It is perhaps a testament to the bible that it
remains pertinent with a wide capacity for symbolization even after many
centuries. This in itself might sober some people to the efficacy of the
word of the bible in it's capacity to hold structural sense to human value
and a construct for living in this world.

The second kind of Christian [and these types do overlap], is what some call
the spiritualist. Much as the men who wrote our constitution and
declaration of Independence relied upon their own ability to reach into the
ether of noble aspiration, a 'rightness' and a 'wrongness' is discerned from
the pureness of human empathy with this world. It is hard to describe the
'religious experience' to those who have not had the joy, but as far as I
personally have seen, I equate it to a like in kind emotionality that a
mother or father might feel for their newborn child as they bear witness to
it's life for the first time in the infirmary. In such matters of the
heart, the intellect finds an exasperation forever trying to bring down to
earth what it sees as the flightiness of the human condition. And yet, by
that specific condition unleashed of all objects except that object of
universal representation, we gain our greatest sense of what is right and
what is wrong....by our 'feel', our 'sense'...our 'spiritual' excitation
that inspires that very real concrete thing we term 'conscience'.

I argue this IS the core substance of the Christian Heart...a conscience no
longer in need of established word of authority, but existent by a higher
reach into the very human heart by which all authority is attained.

Which, by hook or crook, was inspired over time to write the very biblical
passages that often become such anchor...even ball and chain...to a rising
spiritual acclaim in the world.

I argue, it is this essential Christian Heart that binds all Christianity
together as a single thing, even as the mind roams far and wide in our
attempts to better understand that heart, and to create workable equations
that our intellect might be more content with.

What is perhaps hopeful, is that, at least as I have seen it, a commonness
amongst all human beings whereby this essential heart as inpsired by
Christian matrydom and objectless love, conspires in us all along whatever
paths we take in life. By this, the Muslim heart is no different from the
Christian Heart...nor the Hindu heart, nor the Buddahist...and yet, our
minds delve into entire libraries of thought by which the same thing is
defined and defined many times over, until we are seperated and pulled apart
by thought.

Christ, I would argue, however...frees up that heart from the clamour of the
world, and we find a potential we perhaps had not realized. But I'm the
first to say it is disturbing to the intellect, for such emotional free fall
can be scary...for most human beings NEED their objects...or else the world
becomes a chaos. Ah...but to see God in all things...now that is a magic
indescribable. Some day I know I hope to reclaim my 'righteousness' and
like the sun, restart the fiery engines below that feel like something
nuclear going off by the second. I'm quite convinced that such energies are
what make the heart tick, and is the essence of life itself in it's most
basic form. I think this is what this simple common man discovered so long
ago...and through the object of God, he found he could expand his love many
fold...and reach into the very life of those around HIM.

In the end I surmise we will rationalize our way to whatever truth we find.