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To: G Larry
Well, except for when they don’t:

Call no man father...

126 posted on 12/01/2016 1:32:06 AM PST by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: Elsie

In a Jewish context, this would have been a warning against the popular concept of rabbis and their role. The rabbi literally interpreted everything for his followers.

Does this carry over to clergy of what is supposedly an objectively doctrined Christian body? One might say a looser concept of father is intended than what the Lord warned against. As Paul was Timothy’s “father” in the gospel. Whether that looser concept is maintained in practice, is another question.


128 posted on 12/01/2016 1:36:43 AM PST by HiTech RedNeck (Embrace the Lion of Judah and He will roar for you and teach you to roar too. See my page.)
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