[Elsie]

This actually demonstrates yet again the need for an authoritative body, a teaching authority (itself led by the Holy Spirit), to keep us on track, to remind and inform us of what the true authentic teaching was and is. Or else anyone can claim anything they want about the ECF's (just like can be done with Scripture).

I hear ya...

[FourtySeven]

It’s not “circular reasoning” to point out the fact that without a final authority, all human attempts fail, as personal opinion dominates in anarchy.

That’s just a fact, it’s not “circular reasoning”.