To: boatbums; Mrs. Don-o; Elsie
“but I seriously doubt he was addressed as “Father Paul”.”
Holy Scripture says you are correct... they called him Brother Paul.
Matt 23:8
But be not you called Rabbi. For one is your master; and all you are brethren.
Romans 2:11
For there is no respect of persons with God.
256 posted on
09/19/2018 8:15:39 PM PDT by
mrobisr
To: mrobisr
263 posted on
09/19/2018 10:43:04 PM PDT by
boatbums
(Not by works of righteousness which we have done but according to His mercy he saved us.)
To: mrobisr
Holy Scripture says you are correct..That's no damned excuse!
Really; do I need a sarc tag?
267 posted on
09/20/2018 12:09:44 AM PDT by
Elsie
(Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
To: mrobisr
Yet there's Paul calling himself, repeatedly, the father of those he brought into the Church (Oneimus, Timothy, Titus and others); and there's Father Abraham.
You might want to explain to me why nobody scruples about somebody being called a "Master" (or the modern equiv. "Mister") or a "Teacher," both there in the same passage under discussion; or why we call things Holy (Holy Bible, Holy Cross for instance) when Jesus -- it seems --- once questioned the propriety of calling even Himself, holy... or even calling Him "GOOD"?
I think there's a deeper meaning here.
Your thoughts?
277 posted on
09/20/2018 11:11:35 AM PDT by
Mrs. Don-o
(What does the LORD require of you: to act justly, to love tenderly, and to walk humbly with your God)
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