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However, scripture repeatedly references people having multiple fathers.

It does? Do you want to name them?

I will start by saying that I did not intend the statement to mean that Scripture has a verse that states "People have multiple fathers". However, various verses refer to father in the plural or state someone other than God the Father is someone's father.

However, to start God the Father is that Father of all. So we have at least one. Lk1:17 has "to turn the hearts of the fathers to the children". If the only father of those children were God the Father, then it would not be in the plural. Lk1:55 has "as he spoke to our fathers", again in the plural. In Lk1:57-64, Zechariah is the father of John the Baptist. Lk1:72 has "to perform the mercy promised to our fathers". This is in the plural. In Lk1:73, we read "our father Abraham". In Lk2:48-49, Mary asks Jesus "your father and I have been looking for you anxiously" and Jesus responds with "Did you not know that I must be in my Father's house?" There appears to be difference between the father in Mary's question and the Father in Jesus' reply. In 1 Jn 2:1, John wrote "My little children". Since John is male, I think it is reasonable to say he is saying he is their father.