The Fathers of The Church. As the original Apostles were martyred, many perversions of Christianity were introduced. False “gospels” were invented that pretended to be “Christian”, but which supported heresies that were profitable to their inventors.
Each of us has a tendency toward sin, and some of us are more attracted to some sins than others. In fact, at times, many of us can love one or two sins while hating the rest. Each heresy is both manifestation and justification of the sin that attracted its followers.
The Fathers of The Church kept it’s teachings on the straight and narrow. They did a miraculously good job. There has never been a Church teaching that contradicted what the Founder taught.
The Church Fathers had an extended family to guide and protect. The best protection is closeness to Christ, and early accounts show that The Fathers of The Church provided guidance that could only have been divinely inspired. If you haven’t read St. Eusebius’s accounts of the first centuries, please do. Comparing that time to this is all the proof we need that The Fathers did God’s will.
If it were not for The Fathers, our ancestors would have never converted, and we would be living in the unending pain of paganism. We can see around the world that pagan religions are particularly painful for women and the poor.
