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To: HarleyD

” Are you claiming that Paul was Pope...”

Of course not. Paul became a father to his Corinthians. This is clear. The apostles (elders/ presbyters/ priests)were fathers to the early Church.

Scripture!

400 posted on 08/27/2014 4:51:04 PM PDT by stonehouse01

To: stonehouse01

Then the term “father” or “papa” or “Pope” doesn’t fit any one circumstance, now does it?

Logic!

401 posted on 08/27/2014 4:54:13 PM PDT by HarleyD ("... letters are weighty, but his .. presence is weak, and his speech of no account.")

To: stonehouse01

Paul became a father to his Corinthians. This is clear.

Paul did NOT tell his 'children' to call him Father.

This is an RCC construct.

430 posted on 08/28/2014 4:35:38 AM PDT by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)

To: stonehouse01

The apostles (elders/ presbyters/ priests)were fathers to the early Church.

No; they were not.

There is NO 'scripture' to support this assertion.

431 posted on 08/28/2014 4:36:43 AM PDT by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)

To: stonehouse01

The vulgate says; for if you have ten thousand instructors in Christ, yet not many Fathers.

Scripture!

432 posted on 08/28/2014 4:38:37 AM PDT by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)

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