“Call no man father.”
Was Christ guilty of this when he referred to Father Abraham in the parable of Lazarus and the rich man? How about Paul, or James, or John, in numerous epistles referring to Abraham, or to ‘fathers’, or to themselves as father (as Paul did in the first letter to the Corinthians)?
In the immediate preceding verse, Christ said to let no one call you Rabbi, or teacher; does this mean we refer to no one by that title who fits the qualifications?
Or could it be, perhaps, that our Lord was speaking about something more fundamental than a mere title?
/as for the topic at hand
//I await the day that the greater Church recognizes Bergoglio as an antipope
///and recognizes the continued tenure of Benedict XVI
The alleged quotes ascribed to Pope Francis directly contradict the many public remarks he has made in homilies and speeches confirming the existence of hell.
Meeting a group of children and teens during a Rome parish visit March 8, 2015, a female Scout asked the pope, "If God forgives everybody, why does hell exist?"
Pope Francis assured the children that God is good but reminded them that there was also a "very proud angel, very proud, very intelligent, and he was envious of God. Do you understand? He was envious of God. He wanted God's place. And God wanted to forgive him, but he said, 'I don't need your forgiveness. I am good enough!'"
"This is hell: It is telling God, 'You take care of yourself because I'll take care of myself.' They don't send you to hell, you go there because you choose to be there. Hell is wanting to be distant from God because I do not want God's love. This is hell. Do you understand?"
Speaking to families of victims of the Mafia March 21, 2014, the pope made an appeal to all men and women in the Mafia to stop, turn their lives around and convert.
"Convert, there is still time for not ending up in hell. It is what is waiting for you if you continue on this path," the pope said.
He scatters the ink spots on the page, as it were, and then depends on others to connect the dots.
Even in his subsequent back-pedaling he does not control the damage, because he does not repudiate the predictable emergence of false doctrine or confusion. Confusion seems to be his deliberate modus operandi.
It's part of his "dialectic." This is as far as you can get from the authentic study of Divine Law.
It is quite obvious who is NOT the "author" of this confusion; and, perhaps, who is. Tagline,
Context is completely lost on the Roman Catholic it seems.
1 Thessalonians 5:22 KJV
Abstain from all appearance of evil.