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I never ever call or called anyone other than my late Father Father to do so would be highly disrespectful to him and no one else deserves that name not even my father in law
In other words, to me, Yeshua was saying call no man "Father of Creation" - so calling a priest father is just a form of respect as in Father Brown for instance ....
Because it is against the Bible and the Roman church wanted to demand power over the people while denying them access to Scripture?
A Pharisaic practice was to designate a rabbi as having the spiritual stature to dictate questions of religious practice with an authority equivalent to that of God (or which could even supersede God’s). The term in Aramaic didn’t just mean teacher, it mean great one.
Not so sure I’d take the parable of the rich man and the beggar as a proper use of the term “Father.” If the person is in hell, and this is the only specific biblical example we see of such a thing, the person should be expected to sin. In this case it seemed he was counting on Abraham being his ancestral father to justify him in spite of his uncharitable ways.
Good article in that it explains whom Jesus was addressing and the true humility of priests.
The book of the Acts of the Apostles, after the gospels but before the epistles, is real life history of the early church. No apostle was called “Father” or “priest” in the book of Acts. Moreover, after the day of Pentecost in which Mary was mentioned, no mention of her in the book of Acts.
Which goes to prove the entire Romish system is an unbiblical cult. No wonder they are so against sola scriptura.
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The hypocrisy of the Pharisees is the same hypocrisy of the RCC’s pagan popes and ‘priests.’
It was the Catholic abomination that was to arrive 3 centuries later that Yeshua was most concerned with.
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These threads used to be edifying but now it’s just sniping against other belief systems.
Jesus used the word father in a different sense than what he told us not to use it, Abraham was the father of the tribes of Israel litterly.
Jesus told us not to call any one father as a religious title.
Much more important question...
Why have “priests” when priest is NOT a New Testament Church office?
Yet; Catholics violate that command jumping thru hoops trying to work their way around and thru scriptures to justify it...And then they call some guy 'Holy Father'...A title specifically reserved for God...
Perhaps God inspires them to call each other father to make it easier for his church to recognize who to avoid...