LOL! That's like saying "why would Reggie Jackson and Noland Ryan play better baseball than us kindergarten students"?
For one, the early Church Fathers and Doctors were not just any persons. They were just a few great holy men. Don't waste your time on FR asking nobodies, spend your time reading the Church Fathers.
re: As you said, pretty much all questions on this have been asked by now, yet people still ask them.
From the day we are born we have questions. The problem is that you children are only asking other children. "In a country of blind men, the one eyed man is a king".
No, it really isn’t. We’re talking about a physical sport and knowledge of God. How can any man know anyhing more than any other, about God? Many men are/were theological scholars and know the religious writings by heart, but this is not knowledge of God, unless you believe it to be. There is no proof because the proof requires that same belief. What we call knowledge of God, is really just a self-evident truth. I happen to believe that God created us all equally and individually and our self-evidential truths, are as different as each of us.
When I ask questions, I ask them of freepers...not God, not nobodies.