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“All of the Church fathers disagree with you.”

I know the drill, its only “sola scriptura”. How can that stand up to the Church fathers.

This has nothing to do with 'sola scriptura'. It has to do with the *interpretation* of Scripture. Your interpretation of Acts 6 contradicts that of all the Church fathers. That may not mean anything to you, since their testimony doesn't mean anything to you. You don't think of the Church as an organic body that grows through time and passes on its learning and wisdom through time. That is why the testimony of the fathers apparently means nothing to you, since in your mind there is no reason to prefer their interpretation to yours. They were men just like you are a man. You are equal to them, and your interpretation is worth just as much as all of theirs individual or in combination. The Bible fell straight from heaven into your lap. But if you thought of the Church organically, as a continuously growing organism in which the wisdom and teaching of the Apostles was still ringing in the fathers' ears, then you would give a lot more weight and authority to the fathers than to your own, 21st century, American, Protestant opinion.

-A8