Why the diverse opinions/interpretations on various topics of the bible?
I’m told that Christians are filled with the Holy Spirit, meaning they have a direct connection to God. If that is true, wouldn’t the Holy Spirit guide, show, and teach the correct interpretation of biblical topics, resulting in all true Christians arriving at the same understanding?
But right now, interpretations are all over the place. On hell alone, some believe in eternal torment, others in annihilation, and others in purification through pain or some other process. Then there are differences over the tribulation—pre-trib, post-trib, and so on. Some believe in a young earth, others in an old earth, and the list of disagreements keeps going.
Logically, if the Holy Spirit reveals truth, then it should lead people to the correct interpretation. So either the existence of so many conflicting interpretations suggests there is no Holy Spirit—and therefore no God—or it means there is a group of Christians who truly have the correct interpretation as revealed by the Holy Spirit, while those with false interpretations do not actually have the Holy Spirit and were never truly Christians in the first place.