[InterestedQuestioner]

"The Bible not only admonishes us not to call any man Father..."

LOL. Is that what the Bible admonishes us to do, P-Marlowe? Can I ask what you call your father, then? LOL. What do you call "Father's day?" How do you feel about the father of our country, George Washington? You know, we Americans have erected a monument in his honor. And the founding fathers? LOL.


How about actually going to the Scriptures, P-Marlowe:

"Brother will deliver up brother to death, and the father his child, and children will rise against parents and have them put to death;" (Matt 10:21)

Here we see our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ, using the word "father" for someone other than Our Father in Heaven. Let's look again:


"For though you have countless guides in Christ, you do not have many fathers. For I became your father in Christ Jesus through the gospel." (1 Cor 4:15)

Here we see St. Paul referring to himself as the father in Christ of Christians. This is, of course, the sense in which Catholics use the phrase.

Christ was using hyperbole when he said, "Call no man your father," and you've misunderstood the intent of that passage. I think you'll find the word "father" used to refer to people besides the Almighty at least a hundred times in the New Testament. Perhaps you overlooked that?

I'm sure you're well aware that the Calvinist doctrine on the Scripture, "call no man your father," is the Scriptural pretense for the Calvinist doctrine that the Pope is the anti-Christ. Nothing like sound Biblical exegisis as a basis of solid doctrine.

[P-Marlowe]

Please do not post to me on this thread again. Our discussion is over.

[jude24]

I'm sure you're well aware that the Calvinist doctrine on the Scripture, "call no man your father," is the Scriptural pretense for the Calvinist doctrine that the Pope is the anti-Christ.

The Calvinists don't teach that anymore. The Orthodox Presbyterian Church, the Presbyterian Church in America, and the Bible Presbyterian Church have all removed the reference to the Pope being the anti-christ from the Westminster Confession of Faith.

Now they just say he isn't the head of the church, Christ is.