When Catholics call priests "father," we are simply following the example set by Paul and the other early Christians. As long as we put nobody above God, we are following Jesus' teaching.
Your religion isn't doing any such thing...You are NOT following the example set by Paul and your are as Jesus warned, putting your clerics as equal with God...
Paul did not wear embroidered religious robes and put himself above the people...And while Paul acknowledged he was a 'spiritual' father, he in no way presented himself as a 'religious' Father to anyone...Ever...No throne...No fishhats...No crowns...
Your clergy are not fashioned after anyone in the scriptures other than the religious Pharisees and the pagans...
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Of course not. He is using an extreme example in order to rebuke the scribes and Pharisees for setting themselves up at the ultimate authority instead of God.
There it is...And not just the Pharisees but the Catholic religion as well...You have set up your priest hood and your visions of the ghosts of Jesus and Mary any your 'church' fathers, all known as Catholic Tradition as the ultimate authority above God...
Funny that your religion would try to use scripture that condemns your religion to actually defend your religion...
No! the pity is that protestants do have the intellectual capacity to have an intelligent discussion or even realize how little they really know or understand.