“Early Church Fathers” is actually a misleading term when applied to anyone besides the authentic Apostles of Christ in the first century AD.  The so-called early church fathers were non-inspired writers.  Only Christ’s Apostles, who were inspired in their writings that are in the Bible, are the true fathers of His true church.  

Those who want to run to the so-called early church fathers to validate some doctrine don’t consider that they are very often not even agreed among themselves.  They are also often greatly removed from each other in terms of time and/or in terms of geography.  They are also generally even very greatly removed from the Apostles in terms of time and/or in terms of geography (100 to 300 years is a very, very long time- we all consider events in the 18th and 19th centuries to have happened a long time ago).  

There were even heretics infiltrating and preying upon the churches which the Apostles of Christ founded within the Apostles’ very own lifetimes.  Books such as Galatians, 2 Peter, 1 John, and Jude were written to counter heresy being spread among the first century Apostolic churches.  We see in Revelation chapters 2 and 3 that lukewarmness and heresy had crept into some of the very churches which were founded by Christ’s Apostles themselves before they had even died off.

We even see as John’s Gospel concludes that a tradition had picked up among the early Christians which was not rooted in truth (see John 21:20-23).

There were also corrupted traditions among the Jews which sprang up, not only after the lifetimes of, but even contemporary with the men who served God faithfully in Israel and were used by God to write the Hebrew Scriptures. The Talmud is full of such silly, ungodly traditions.  No one should trust the Talmud.  It would be foolish to give anything within the Talmud credibility because it may be contemporary, or closer to contemporary, with the Old Testament Prophets.  

All writings of men which are not inspired, and the beliefs and practices which these writings are used to promote, need to be judged by the inspired Scriptures themselves.  

The Bible is the authority concerning what is true in relation to proper worship of God; and it is also the only valid referee concerning the claims which people make in relation to that.

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