You can find the above image here: https://x.com/katherineortho/status/1978886308945961155 My comments on it, and an extended quotation of John Calvin from the Acts 10 passage: Uhh, no actually, when this woman, Katherine (why do the EO women get a pass when they presume to instruct?), references Acts 10:25-26, she only takes a snippet of the actual passage and she goes against what Scripture explicitly says: "As Peter was coming in, Cornelius met him and fell down at his feet and worshiped him. But Peter lifted him up, saying, 'Stand up; I myself am also a man.'” Yet this is on her short list of proper prostration and veneration in the New Testament. Yet Peter rebukes Cornelius for doing this. By the way, pop Protestant debaters online might not know what they are talking about, but most of the debates online by pop apologists for whatever tradition are pretty weak. Go back to the venerable dead. Here is Calvin on this passage in Acts 10: "Falling down at hi...
Those appealing to the early church fathers really have to appeal to the earliest of the earliest to be consistent, and that would be the Apostolic fathers, the first generation after the Apostles themselves (and when we can read the Apostles in the inspired, written word of God, we ought not to place the generation after the Apostles on equal or even higher footing as an infallible interpreter of the Apostles). But within the first several centuries (and thereafter) of the Church after Christ's ascension, there was much debate, development, disagreement, etc. This shouldn't surprise us, as we see that throughout Scripture itself. An appeal to oral tradition in itself is fine, so long as that is not regarded as infallible or the highest authority. No reasonable person denies that the inscripturated word was transmitted orally before it was written down. No one has a problem that God had inspired prophets and men and women having visions or dreaming dreams, etc., but now ...