The Word is the final Word not the word of the church fathers...
Man's theology and traditions that do not align with the Scriptures are never to be held above the Word of God,.......NEVER!!!
I take them over YOURS.
You believe you know more than they did?
You think they weren't using letters?
You knew some of the Apostles in first person like they did?
Why say such silly things?
Matthew 4:4
But he answered,
“It is written, “‘
Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that comes from the mouth of God.’”
2 Timothy 3:16-17
All Scripture is breathed out by God and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for training in righteousness
, 17that the man of God
[SUP]b[/SUP] may be complete, equipped for every good work
.
Psalm 119:130
The entrance of thy words giveth light;
it giveth understanding unto the simple.
If traditions and man's theology, handed down to the church after the Apostolic Age, do not align with the Scriptures,.......
they are to be dismissed as nonsense.
Acts 20:27
for I did not shrink from declaring to you the whole counsel of God.
2 Timothy 4:1-5
I charge you in the presence of God and of Christ Jesus, who is to judge the living and the dead, and by his appearing and his kingdom:
2preach the word; be ready in season and out of season; reprove, rebuke, and exhort, with complete patience and teaching
. 3For the time is coming when people will not endure sound
[SUP]a[/SUP] teaching, but having itching ears they will accumulate for themselves teachers to suit their own passions,
4and will turn away from listening to the truth and wander off into myths.
5As for you, always be sober-minded, endure suffering,
do the work of an evangelist, fulfill your ministry.
Titus 1:5-9
This is why I left you in Crete, so that you might put what remained into order, and appoint elders in every town as I directed you—
6if anyone is above reproach, the husband of one wife,[SUP]
d[/SUP] and his children are believers[SUP]
e[/SUP] and not open to the charge of debauchery or insubordination.
7For an overseer,[SUP]
f[/SUP] as God’s steward, must be above reproach. He must not be arrogant or quick-tempered or a drunkard or violent or greedy for gain,
8but hospitable, a lover of good, self-controlled, upright, holy, and disciplined.
9He must hold firm to the trustworthy word as taught, so that he may be able to give instruction in sound[SUP]
g[/SUP] doctrine and also to rebuke those who contradict it.