Have you considered that reading the Scriptures in accord with the Fathers, who were formed by the same culture as the Holy Apostles makes it far more likely that you will get their meaning right than reading them on your own, or with the guidance of only of your fellow believers who grew up in a culture shaped by the rationalist ‘Enlightenment’?
“Have you considered that reading the Scriptures in accord with the Fathers, who were formed by the same culture as the Holy Apostles makes it far more likely that you will get their meaning right than reading them on your own, or with the guidance of only of your fellow believers who grew up in a culture shaped by the rationalist ‘Enlightenment’?”
Of course I considered it. However, the “Holy Apostles” didn’t understand some things that Jesus told them to their faces. The “Holy Apostles” were human. The “Church Fathers” were also human.
No one will roast in hell because one thinks He was speaking of Paradise or the Garden of Eden!