Truth in a story which is entirely dependent upon subjective interpretation

[vorlon13]

I seriously don't get this. To make the claim that there is any truth, let alone the 'only', and absolute, undisputed truth, and yet having thousands of denominations disagreeing on every possible opinion (and justifiably so since it contradicts itself so much), how do people answer this? I've not seen a response on youtube and I don't know if a primarily atheist forum is a good place to get an answer, but I'd sure like to know. I mean, that's just the tip of the iceberg really. What passages are metaphorical and which literal? And how would one tell the difference? It seems like an impossible mess. Is this just another situation where it's ignored or some really bottom-of-the-barrel-scraping answer is all we get?

And in the Christian orbit, all Christian denominations, schisms, sects, and spinoffs are religions about Jesus. The religion of Jesus should be the brass ring, so to speak for which all those branches of Christianity should be aspiring to, yet none even acknowledge that simple goal as desirous in the least as furtherance of their service to the Lord.