24 million is a healthy minority on Christology. The salvation by election branch is likely as large as the Arminian... Baptism? Lutheran or Baptists? Real Presence in the Eucharist?
And we are only talking about congregations and confessions, not even counting all the individual sola scriptura beliefs.
God will sort out the tares from the wheat.
What false belief does this exegesis not excuse?
You keep trying to use the fact that there are divisions and disagreements under SS besides unity in core beliefs, while under sola ecclesia and in Catholicism itself you have the same, the difference being a matter of degrees, while unity under the means of implicit assent to infallible church magisterium is not that of Scripture.
Even Arminans and Calvinist affirm core truths i mentioned, and souls are manifestly born under each, and can have wonderful fellowship in Christ (though some force unwarranted conclusions) and thus men like Wesley and Whitefield could preach in each others churches.
Do you think Rome itself is unified on predestination? The Dominican and the Jesuits attacked each other for years over it, and after twenty years of discussion public and private, and eighty-five conferences in the presence of the popes, the difference has not been resolved, and the pope could only require a truce. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Congregatio_de_Auxiliis)
Things which Catholics seem to imagine a comprehensive universal unity is the reality in Catholicism alone, not counting all sola ecclesia churches, but even with Rome Catholics can disagree on:
Which things Rome has spoken definitively on, or the extent; the infallible or non-infallible nature of multitudes of teachings, including in Trent, Vatican Two, and the catechism
How far Catholics can disagree in non-infallible teachings
Meanings of infallible or non-infallible teachings
How many levels Catholic teaching falls into and the hierarchy of truths
Whether the Pope is subject to Ecumenical Councils
How many verses of the Bible have been infallibly defined.
What degree of assurance the Imprimatur and Nhil Obstat provide
Whether the stories of Adam and Eve, Jonah and the fish, Balaam and the donkey, the conquests of Samson and Joshua, and other accounts are literally true
The meaning of inerrancy of Scripture
What the guidelines on interpretation mean and allow
Which Bible version is the most faithful to Catholic teaching
Whether the Vulgate has the same authority as they original text (Divino Afflante Spiritu, #17)
Whether or not 1Jn. 5:7in the Vulgate is properly Scripture
Whether approved notes in Catholic Bibles are sound
What Trent's affirmation of the Vulgate entails
Meanings of multitudes of Bible verses
Darwinian evolution vs not-Darwinian evolution and related
Geocentricity or Heliocentricity
How many bishops are necessary for this Collegial infallibility to be ensured?
What Extra ecclesiam nulla salus and Lumen Gentium really means (status of Protestants)
What the “subsits” in Lumen Gentium means, versus “is”
Whether all the anathemas of Trent still stand and what they entail
The role of "bishop" in apostolic succession
Who all the church Fathers are.
What the Fathers taught
What Tradition exactly is and means
Whether Tradition is the second of a two-part revelation (known as partim-partim), or if both forms of revelation contain the entirety of God's revealed truth.
What happens to unbaptized babies
What salvific merit means
What the distinction between contrition and attrition entails
Whether “not by works” refers only to the works done under the Law
What conditions for annulments mean
Whether the brethren of Mary were cousins or from Joseph via a previous marriage
Whether Mary was a dedicated temple virgin before her marriage to Joseph
How Mary physically remained a virgin
Whether the Ark of the Covenant prefigures Mary
Whether the term “Co-redemptrix” departs too much from the language of Scripture and of the Fathers, and whether Mary should also be called the Mediatrix of all Graces
Whether the Virgin Mary died and then was assumed or whether she was assumed before death
Who you can pray to in Heaven
Whether 1 Cor. 3:10ff is actually about purgatory
What the suffering of purgatory is
What mode of predestination is right - ie Molinism vs Augustinian
Other aspects of Predestination
Waging war and Capital punishment
The right of dissent based upon conscience
What mode of predestination is right - ie Molinism vs Augustinian
When a Catholic council first formulated its present canon
Whether the canon of Trent is the same as that of Hippo
Roman Catholicism's treatment of slavery
How to reconcile Roman Catholic teaching both advocating and censuring freedom of religion, torture, etc.
What charismatic practices are of God
What the CC means in stating that private revelations add nothing to what was publicly revealed up and through Christ
Many aspects of Eschatology
Whether private revelation can be
The place of political activism
Ecumenism, and how much fellowship with the Orthodox is good.
Things which Catholics can disagree on
Original sin
The contents of the Biblical canon
Purgatory
Original sin
Baptism of desire
Form of Baptism
Universal papal jurisdiction and supremacy
Papal infallibility
The nature of transubstantiation, and manner of reception
Allowance of Icons
Divorce and Remarriage
Faith and Reason
The Development of Doctrine
The Atonement
Whether the Catholic charismatic movement is to be allowed
Whether instruments are allowed in church
Clergy – qualifications/Priestly celibacy
What Tradition teaches
Church fathers (who they all are, and taught)
Dates of Feasts
The Church
Deification
The Holy Church Canons
The nature of the Sacramental Mysteries
The number of Sacraments
Beards
Various other practices
The Filioque; the Trinity
Immaculate Conception
The sinlessness of Mary
Evolution
Eschatology
Ecumenism
The new mass
Infallibility of canonizations
Who is primarily at fault for the Catholic schisms
Whether a pope would no longer be pope if he became a formal heretic, "Latae sententiae." or if he is the only person who can decide if he is an heretic or an apostate
Whether the pope is a validly elected pope or not.
Whether Vatican Two and many post V2 teachings deviate from official Roman Catholic teaching (which opens up a whole new series of things which Catholic can disagree on under sola ecclesia.
Then you have groups like the LDS, which also operate under the premise that the church is supreme, and effectively make their formal teaching and certain extraBiblical writings as equal or superior to Scripture, fostering as with Rome, implicit assent to what leadership teaches. And under which are found the most heretical doctrine.
Thus it remains that unity under both SS and SE can be realized to a limited degree, while disagreements and division also is seen, and that the unity seen in Scripture itself was not comprehensive doctrinal unity, and was based upon Scriptural substantiation, which requires division from those who teach for doctrines the mere tradition of men.