NO! You do NOT understand, Garee!!! 
So you are saying the living, abiding, eternal word of God provides us of no understanding by which we can in the real world beleieve God and therefore you say we need a man to perform that work that He has promised He would do 2000 years ago, as our comforter, teacher and infalible guide (Holy Spirit) instead? Is the church the Holy Spirit?

What do the ECFs have to do with the Church's teaching on apparitions?
The ECF's or what scripture calls those who appose "sola scriptura" (beleiving all things written in the law (His) and the prophets)  the "law of the fathers" used to determine the kind of athority they are following which in thier case is "sola ecclesia".They, through the "law of the fathers"(ecf's)are the one that are supposed to test the spirits of private revelations to see if they are of God .They are not, but they approve of them anyway because scripture the law of our one Father (one one is our father in heaven) and not fathers(plural) in some sort of succession of men, following men that say scripture(alone) is to narrow of an authority to them.

Garee, you don't have a clue to what the end goal of Christianity is! It is UNION with God Himself!!!

From the beginnig it was the gosl of God to create an eternal bride for himself. The UNION is with His bride as His one goal.Remember the former things will not be remembered or ever brought to mind, as new creatures in our new bodies we will be like the angels with no way to muultiply (no queens and kings) Just us His bride and Him our husband.

The Divinization of man! Do yourself a favor and do a study on being partakers of the Divine Nature!
Divinization of man ?

I have a good understanding what that means.For if any man has not the eternal Spirit of Christ... he simply is not of Christ, as the one bride, made up of many lively stones, like that of of our dear blessed sister in the Lord, Mary,that together with all of the other lively stones like Peter, do make up the one spiritual house of God, the church, preparded as His eternal wife.