What gives a religion the right to claim their fantasy is correct and the rest false?

[vorlon13]

For the early decades/centuries of Christianity, there wasn't a bible, manual, users guide or website to go check. Word of mouth is how it spread, and congregations were on their own in regards as to how they were going to interpret the 5th, 10th or 20th hand version of the Christ story they heard in their specific village.

This unsystem would guaranty all manner of HIDEOUS and VILE blasphemies and heresies to spread like cancer, and literally no 2 of the early churches would have been hewing to the same actual beliefs, and you're looking at total chaos dogma wise. And since these early churches were populated with unavoidably illiterate congregations who left precious little of a paper trail, or even a simple count of how many of them there were, the true number of Christian denoms would be significantly larger, but even a guess about the actual number would just that, a wild guess.

And of course, as far as God is concerned, whether intentional or accidental, a schism is a schism.

Kinda sad to realize all these early 'beta tester' Christians wound up damned anyhow, but that's the way the communion wafer crumbles.