Posted on 03/21/2024 7:26:46 AM PDT by ebb tide
I'll never pray for the "Cry of the Earth", nor for the "Gift of Diversity in the Church", especially when the dictator pope is persecuting traditional Catholics.
In his prayer intention for the month of September 2019, Pope Francis invites us to pray that "politicians, scientists and economists work together to protect the world’s seas and oceans."
Who's he praying to? His Pachamama?
Holy Father?
About as “holy” as the Qur’an is a “holy” book.
Do you call people "teacher," or "Bible teacher," or "doctor"? Better not, because the very next verse says not to call people "teacher".
Now, as for "father": "For if you were to have countless tutors in Christ, yet you would not have many fathers, for in Christ Jesus I became your father through the gospel." -- 1 Cor 4:15, NASB
"For this reason I bend my knees before the Father, from whom every family in heaven and on earth derives its name, 16that He would grant you, according to the riches of His glory, to be strengthened with power through His Spirit in the inner self, so that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith ..." -- Eph 3:14-17, NASB
I appeal to you for my son Onesimus, whom I fathered in my imprisonment, 11who previously was useless to you, but now is useful both to you and to me. 12I have sent him back to you in person, that is, sending my very heart, 13whom I wanted to keep with me, so that in your behalf he might be at my service in my [n]imprisonment for the gospel; 14but I did not want to do anything without your consent, so that your goodness would not be, in effect, by compulsion, but of your own free will. 15For perhaps it was for this reason that he was separated from you for a while, that you would have him back forever, 16no longer as a slave, but more than a slave, a beloved brother, especially to me, but how much more to you, both in the flesh and in the Lord." -- Philemon 10-16 NASB
Obviously Paul is speaking of spiritual fatherhood here, since Onesimus was Philemon's slave before Paul knew him.
Guess you need to open your Bible a bit more.
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