It is often not a "mistrust of God" that will cause someone to leave the service of a particular Denomination or Church and start their own, but rather a mistrust of Man. Of course, there are circumstances where a person might choose to leave for their own personal enrichment or aggrandizement, but just as often such a leaving might be caused by a disagreement over theological interpretation, organizational governance, or ministerial focus.

The question of "interpretation" is one that any religious person must face. For example, if we are to accept that God is "Eternal, Omnipotent, Omniscient, and Omnipresent," as Christians are taught, then sooner or later we must confront the question of "How can we, as finite humans, with our limited (and often flawed) perspective, be so absolute in our conviction that we understand the "Divine Will" of a being which is so utterly beyond us?" There are two general approaches to answering this question. The first is to admit that we, indeed, cannot be absolutely certain any given delineation of the "Divine Will" is perfectly correct. The second is to avoid the subject altogether by persecuting the question against a backdrop of tradition and attacking any would-be questioners.

Unfortunately for the body of the Church, the second approach is by far the most widely employed. It has arguably contributed more to the rise of extremist theologies and religious violence than any other philosophical mechanism. Thousands of Denominations of Christianity exist in the world today, each with at least a subtle difference from the others in terms of the exact creed professed, the ritual forms observed, and the theology espoused. Each, in turn, also holds the interpretation of the faith that it espouses to be the "one, true, correct truth." Obviously this is untenable.

The logical problem that this position creates is that, if we accept this view, we also accept that somehow finite, imperfect man has managed to "corner the market" on an Infinite Divinity. Attempts to explain this often result in some very questionable, and in some cases, outright ludicrous, arguments.

The history of the Christian Church is a history of debate,argument, and in some cases, outright warfare over theological points of view. It is two thousand years of constant change, with even such fundamental matters as choosing which specific "biblical" texts should be added into the official "canon" and which should be removed, a position which has changed many times throughout history, both within the period of the Unified Church and without. Issues such as "Biblical Inerrancy" and "Biblical Literalism" continue to be hotly debated, even within the confines of a single Denomination.

Even the very nature of "selection of bishops" is a matter open for some degree of interpretation. Does the nomination of the governing body of an established Church count as "being made by God", or is it perhaps something less quantifiable, such as a "movement of assent within the individual's spirit?"

A religion cannot espouse a position of absolutism without being subjected to criticism, and even outright ridicule, by persons who disagree with that particular interpretation. It therefore makes a great deal more sense not to make the attempt, on both philosophic and theological grounds.

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