What's more accurate, Early Church Father writings or modern scholarship?

[Valletta]

Most of the Fathers were in a very different culture, speaking a different language, with a different religious background than Jesus. The only way to understand Jesus is to appreciate this difference, explore Jesus' culture, and try to separate understanding him as much as possible from your preconceptions and your own background. I see very little of this kind of critical enterprise in any early writer.

You can see signs of it in the better Reformation commentators. But the methodology really wasn't adopted consistently until the Enlightenment. For that reason I don't find early writers much use compared with modern critical scholars.

This is not to say that it's possible to be completely objective. Clearly it's not. But making the attempt is better than not making it.

There is nothing in the Bible about Jesus keeping so many Christians in the dark for 1500 years until the "enlightenment." If you seek to understand Jesus then establish a solid prayer life, Jesus Himself took time to pray.

 

[Andrewn]

There is nothing in the Bible about Jesus keeping so many Christians in the dark for 1500 years until the "enlightenment."

Early Christians were not in the dark. The dark ages of the Church started in the late 5th century.