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To: Cronos

All may be true but nowhere in the NT is the world father routinely combined with someone’s name as a title of honor for all to use. That is the hyperbole and seeking a place of public honor Jesus was talking about. There is a difference between calling someone your spiritual father and expecting everyone to call that person father as an honorific whether they know the person or not.


54 posted on 01/29/2021 1:44:02 AM PST by Mom MD
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To: Mom MD

And the interesting part is that in other parts of the world, the address for Catholic priests differs — for instance in Poland we address a priest as Ksziądz - or “priest” - so “Hello, Priest”


55 posted on 01/29/2021 2:45:05 AM PST by Cronos
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