“Trust me”—just as dangerous from theologians as from politicians.
Quoting/Trusting/Revering early church fathers set the stage for the church developing exclusive standing on “understanding God”, and hiding the Bible in Latin, so people depended on what church leaders said rather than reading/studying/understanding the Bible directly, for themselves.
One example:
This has persisted to this day through holding onto and revering trinity and all its gobbledygook ‘explanations’—or lack thereof because the impossibility thereof.
Why can’t anyone see the theological “emperors have no clothes” ?