Denominator

What is the common denominator? What is the uncommon divisor? Is there only one correct result?

Of denominations of Christianity, I would say the common denominator is God of Christ, the uncommon divisor is belief of details and details of belief in regards to God, and the expanse of correct results is the question.

I think most denominations have the (uncommon divisor) detailed belief that there is only one correct result. Which does seem to be common, but the uncommonality is which divisor causes the correct result, since each denomination believes their own divising details of belief –regarding God and Jesus- are the correct divisor to come to the correct result. The correct result in life and belief, would be assumitively, living how God would want and ultimately ending up in heaven. So, each denomination theoretically believes only their detailed beliefs of Gods preferred methods of lifestyle will lead them to heaven. Most denominations are detailed enough on specific lifestyle, to restrict only that detailed method as the appropriate method. Based on this belief system, the majority of people, would not be living correctly (and therein, not reach the result of heaven), only because of a few detailed differences in lifestyle. These detailed differences of lifestyle are majoritively based on life circumstance. The effecting circumstances of life –being either fluke or intent of God-, would be basically every element of life which a person is born into. The elements would include general surrounding influences of culture and family. These would play the profound role of influencing a person in method and temperament of general ways of thinking, as well as more specific available -and degree of push of- information and knowledge.

It could be argued that natural acquirement of capabilities of determining the (hypothetically) correct details of lifestyle, overpower circumstance of upbringing, allowing the possibility of finding the correct details of lifestyle regardless of circumstances. This would be the argument that nature is overpowering of nurture, but even if this were the case 100% of the time, a vast amount of circumstances would land people in scenarios with the complete lack of availability of information required to come to the determination of the hypothetical correct lifestyle, therefore a significant amount of situations would happen that the person cannot come to the correct result no matter their potential capabilities of nature.

Basically, most people don’t have the available resources in their life to come to a specified detailed determination of lifestyle based on most denominational beliefs of required detailed lifestyle. In less technical terms; according to most denominations, God wants people to live their specific way, which you would need to learn from that denomination. This doesn’t seem likely to me, that God would require a specific lifestyle method, which can only be known by circumstantially being born into an environment which will press upon the person that specific lifestyle method. There doesn’t seem to be any reason to think God would have a specific detailed way of life of which only some people might happen to be born into the potential to know of, and out of those people, only the ones who choose to follow those specific rules (including the possible obedience based on fear) are the ones reaching the correct result.

 In contrast, if the divisor belief is that there is not only one correct result –but a range of correct results-, based on the prospect that the correct result is not so specific because the divising detail is not so specific. Without such a specific detailed lifestyle required, this allows the possibility that many lifestyles (which may happen to be detailed based on any circumstances) still end in a correct result. This allows the possibility of reaching the correct result, with any plausible circumstances whether nature or nurture takes the forefront. Again, in less technical terms; if the belief is that a more general way of life is the only requirement to achieve the correct result, many other denominations would also be a correct way of life –as they would also fit the general correct lifestyle-, and any person born into any life-stance has the potential to be correct.

In the end, it seems to me that the specificity of lifestyle to reach the correct result is quite general, and a plausible description of lifestyle might simply be; be considerate of others. Or in other terms, as I think most denominations would agree, love one another as you love yourself, also as Jesus tried to infer –happening to be one of the main commonalities of belief between denominations, to follow Jesus-. Perhaps the specifity of divisors –being denominations details- aren’t so important, but more so the simple, more general range of divisors. After all, regarding the divisors, that which is in common, is God as the denominator.