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To: Mrs. Don-o; nonsporting
You might want to re-think your own personal interpretation.

They are referred to as fathers but none are addressed by anyone as father as your references indicate...So it's not a personal interpretation, it's what God says...It would be very odd that millions of people could come up with the exact same personal, private interpretation...

Abraham is the only one who is addressed as Father but he in that case is a type of the real Father...

21 posted on 11/24/2013 12:58:02 PM PST by Iscool
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To: Iscool; metmom; johngrace; Nervous Tick
"It would be very odd that millions of people could come up with the exact same personal, private interpretation."

I don't know of any "millions" who have come up with "this exact same private interpretation." There are almost no churches which teach such a thing. In fact none of them teach, exactly, what a literal interpretation would dictate, that "no man on earth" is to be called father. All of them permit calling fathers, fathers. And teachers, teachers. And instructors, instructors. All of them

I don't know of a one of them who object, even, to calling Martin Luther the "Father of the Reformation," or John Paul Jones the "Father of the Navy," or James Madison the "Father of the Constitution" or George Washington the "Father of His Country." These are still just derivatives of, and analogies to, the Only Father.

"Abraham is the only one who is addressed as Father but he in that case is a type of the real Father..."

Yes. YES! There you have it! Furthermore, all of the churches understand, just as Catholics do, that EVERY father is a "type" of the real Father. It's only because they are types, that they can be called 'father' at all:

Ephesians 3:14-15

For this reason I bow my knees before the Father, from whom every fatherhood in heaven and on earth takes its name.


26 posted on 11/24/2013 2:36:07 PM PST by Mrs. Don-o ("There is one God and Father of all, who is above all and through all and in all." - Ephesians 4:6)
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