And that's just two authors! Can you even imagine the volumes of tripe produced over centuries! However interesting the material is, mainly in cataloguing error, your point remains. Continued revelation (of doctrines from God) will always agree with what He has recorded for us in The Bible. Quite apart from the idolatry—which is as obvious as it is plainly described in The Bible—there's all these titles they give one another.
Recently I quoted Stephen on the occasion of his stoning to show that it's possible to see what's taking place in Heaven. There isn't a button you can press to open the sky but God is able to do this according to His will. Here's the preamble from Stephen's address in chapter seven.
Acts 5:34–6:7; 6:8–7:60
2 And he said, Men, brethren, and fathers, hearken; The God of glory appeared unto our father Abraham, when he was in Mesopotamia, before he dwelt in Charran,
3 And said unto him, Get thee out of thy country, and from thy kindred, and come into the land which I shall shew thee.
4 Then came he out of the land of the Chaldaeans, and dwelt in Charran: and from thence, when his father was dead, he removed him into this land, wherein ye now dwell.
Stephen is referring to "father" as a matter of biological fact. Christians are not biological entities. Jesus already has His resurrection body and after we die we will have that too. The biological entity in which our consciousness arose still exists, but we are not that entity. And although it was sired by a "father" it is our Heavenly Father sustaining our true identity in the Spirit. This point is explicit in Hebrews.
Hebrews 12:9 Furthermore we have had fathers of our flesh which corrected us, and we gave them reverence: shall we not much rather be in subjection unto the Father of spirits, and live?
Jesus commanded the "fathers of our flesh" to hate us. Priests claim to be mediating on God's behalf. They even have blasphemous inventions such as co-Redemptrix, co-Mediatrix, co-Advocatrix and Mary the Mediatrix of All Graces!
It is possible for God to reveal something new at any time. But when He does so it will not contradict something He'd spelled out already and The Bible is absolutely straightforward on all the above points. Priests are not claiming to be "fathers of our flesh" but spiritual conduits from a Spiritual Father.
That spiritual entity is directly contradicting God.
- We are not permitted to call them Father.
- Matthew 23:9 And call no man your father upon the earth: for one is your Father, which is in heaven.
- The "fathers of our flesh" are commanded to hate us.
- Luke 14:26 If any man come to me, and hate not his father, and mother, and wife, and children, and brethren, and sisters, yea, and his own life also, he cannot be my disciple.
- What constitutes an idol is described and prohibited.
- Deuteronomy 5:8 Thou shalt not make thee any graven image, or any likeness of any thing that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the waters beneath the earth.
- A very comprehensive prohibition.
- What constitutes idolatry is described and prohibited.
- Deuteronomy 5:9 Thou shalt not bow down thyself unto them, nor serve them: for I the LORD thy God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation of them that hate me.
- Pedants' corner – Exodus 34:17 . Leviticus 19:4
- God does not change.
- Malachi 3:6a-7d For I am the LORD, I change not; therefore ye sons of Jacob are not consumed. Even from the days of your fathers ye are gone away from mine ordinances, and have not kept them. Return unto me, and I will return unto you, saith the LORD of hosts.