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To: papertyger; Elsie

In the command to call no man father, Jesus was talking to the disciples about the religious leaders. That is the context.

The verses right before and right after His comment about about titles given to religious leaders, directed at those who were going to become religious leaders themselves. No way He suddenly switched gears and meant children with a parent without telling anyone and then switched back to the topic of religious leaders.

He was not talking about children and families and people calling their male parental unit *father*.

When you understand the context, you understand what Jesus meant and that the Catholic church has been demanding that its adherents disobey Him by calling their priests *Father*.

Catholics can make excuses and rationalize all day long, and it doesn’t change the fact that the church is wrong for giving that title to its priests.


403 posted on 01/29/2018 3:52:56 AM PST by metmom ( ...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith..)
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To: metmom
... the fact that the church is wrong for giving that title to its priests.

Perhaps it did so on purpose; to create a 'shiny object' for us ignorant PROTS to notice and spend SO much time observing.

421 posted on 01/29/2018 5:05:06 AM PST by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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