Well, then I guess i have been wrongly named, because my four kinds call me Farther. Seriously, doesn’t Paul call himself Timothy’s father in Christ?
Being a father or acting as a father are not the same as being called a father, especially in the context of the scripture where it is spoken of...
Your kids want to call you father, since you are their father, fine...Altho Paul called himself the father of so many who were not his actual children, he never intended anyone call him father other than his own children...Paul made that clear in his teaching...That's the part you guys ignore...
Joh_8:41 Ye do the deeds of your father. Then said they to him, We be not born of fornication;
When were were spiritually born again,
we have one Father, even God.
We received ONE Spiritual father...Only one...The need for a priesthood and the priesthood was eliminated...
Mat 23:9 And call no man your father upon the earth: for one is your Father, which is in heaven.