2006-09-12 11:57:01 · 9 answers · asked by slick 2 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
+ Father +
In context, the Scripture reads, "... And greetings in the markets, and to be called of men, Rabbi, Rabbi. But be not ye called Rabbi: for one is your Master, even Christ; and all ye are brethren. And call no man your father upon the earth: for one is your Father, which is in heaven."
This is call for humility for those in leadership roles. Not to be taken literally.
We are not to deny our male parent and cut the Commandment to honor our father and mother in half.
Some leaders in any church may fall into the same folly as the pharisees of Jesus' day.
+ Holy +
Any concordance shows that the Bible calls people, places, and even things holy.
Catholics call the the Pope 'Holy Father' for two reasons:
- He was selected for the ministy of Peter, the pastor of our world wide Church, by the inspiration of the Holy Spirit.
- We pray for the Holy Spirit to be always with him so that he may lead us with faith and wisdom.
+ With love in Christ.
2006-09-12 18:05:02 · answer #1 · answered by imacatholic2 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Despite what the Holy Roman Pagan Catholic Cult teaches about their history, they were founded by Emperor Constantine of Rome in 360 a.d. In order to get the masses to accept this religion, he included many of the pagan rites and dogma to make it more appealing. The Pope is nothing but a joke, The RCC is nothing more than a religious political government and Peter was not it's founder. We are never to call any Christian leader Father or Reverend for that matter. There's only one spiritual Father and he is to be revered.
2006-09-12 12:06:30 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 2⤋
The apostle John sees himself as a spiritual Father, and the readers of the epistles are his spiritual children. He also refers to others as ‘fathers’, and the context is only a spiritual one.
We next see Paul call himself a spiritual Father to the readers of his epistle to the Corinthians:
1 Cor. 4:14-15 I do not write this to make you ashamed, but to admonish you as my beloved children. 15 For though you have countless guides in Christ, you do not have many fathers. For I became your father in Christ Jesus through the gospel.
First, Paul himself refers to the Corinthians as children. He is single (1 Cor. 7). He refers to himself as a Father. He did not father a bunch of physical children, he is speaking about how he is a Father to these Corinthians spiritually through the Gospel.
This is affirmed elsewhere in his writing to Timothy, 2 Tim. 2:1-2:
You then, my son, be strong in the grace that is in Christ Jesus. 2 and what you have heard from me before many witnesses entrust to faithful men who will be able to teach others also.
2006-09-12 12:16:12 · answer #3 · answered by Debra M. Wishing Peace To All 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
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2016-10-14 22:38:43 · answer #4 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
he is a spiritual father. Just as paul said is was a father through Christ in the Epistles.
2006-09-12 13:14:08 · answer #5 · answered by Elora 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I would depart with my Catholic friends on this. Calling a Priest "Father" is unscriptural, as is the reason they do it.
But then again, most of us Non Catholic Ministers use Reverend..............
2006-09-12 12:13:01 · answer #6 · answered by Minister 4 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Big EZ says:
Despite what the Holy Roman Pagan Catholic Cult teaches about their history, they were founded by Emperor Constantine of Rome in 360 a.d. In order to get the masses to accept this religion, he included many of the pagan rites and dogma to make it more appealing. The Pope is nothing but a joke, The RCC is nothing more than a religious political government and Peter was not it's founder.
I say, "Where can I find that in the Bible?"
Every time I look for it, all I find is:
Mat 16:17 And Jesus answering said to him: Blessed art thou, Simon Bar-Jona: because flesh and blood hath not revealed it to thee, but my Father who is in heaven.
Mat 16:18 And I say to thee: That thou art Peter; and upon this rock I will build my church, and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it.
Mat 16:19 And I will give to thee the keys of the kingdom of heaven. And whatsoever thou shalt bind upon earth, it shall be bound also in heaven: and whatsoever thou shalt loose on earth, it shall be loosed also in heaven.
Who should we believe ... Jesus ... or someone who thinks he knows more than God?
Big EZ says:
We are never to call any Christian leader Father or Reverend for that matter. There's only one spiritual Father and he is to be revered.
I say, "When I searched for that phrase in the Bible, I also found these passages, and many, many more. Which should I discard, and why?"
Mat 10:37 He that loveth father or mother more than me, is not worthy of me; and he that loveth son or daughter more than me, is not worthy of me.
Mat 15:4 Honour thy father and mother: And: He that shall curse father or mother, let him die the death.
Mat 19:4 Who answering, said to them: Have ye not read, that he who made man from the beginning, made them male and female? And he said:
Mat 19:5 For this cause shall a man leave father and mother, and shall cleave to his wife, and they two shall be in one flesh.
Mat 19:29 And every one that hath left house, or brethren, or sisters, or father, or mother, or wife, or children, or lands for my name's sake, shall receive an hundredfold, and shall possess life everlasting.
Mar 11:9 And they that went before and they that followed cried, saying: Hosanna: Blessed is he that cometh in the name of the Lord.
Mar 11:10 Blessed be the kingdom of our father David that cometh: Hosanna in the highest.
Luk 14:26 If any man come to me, and hate not his father and mother and wife and children and brethren and sisters, yea and his own life also, he cannot be my disciple.
Luk 16:24 And he cried and said: Father Abraham, have mercy on me and send Lazarus, that he may dip the tip of his finger in water to cool my tongue: for I am tormented in this flame.
Act 7:1 Then the high priest said: Are these things so?
Act 7:2 Who said: Ye men, brethren and fathers, hear. The God of glory appeared to our father Abraham, when he was in Mesopotamia, before he dwelt in Charan.
Rom 4:16 Therefore is it of faith, that according to grace the promise might be firm to all the seed: not to that only which is of the law, but to that also which is of the faith of Abraham, who is the father of us all,
Rom 4:17 (As it is written: I have made thee a father of many nations), before God, whom he believed: who quickeneth the dead and calleth those things that are not, as those that are.
The one's who truly understood the meaning of the words of Jesus Christ were the apostles who heard them, and who later wrote them down, under the inspiration of the Holy Spirit.
The Catholic Church and the Pope are the authentic successors of those original apostles, and the trustees of all the Traditions that were handed down to us, including sacred scripture.
How can those who showed up 1500 years late, and after the world had already been converted for Christ, claim to know better than God's one, true church ... and then make their claim based on scripture alone?
Impossible. Ridiculous. Presumptious. Nonsense!
2006-09-12 20:47:38 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Just more perversion by the Vatican.
They teach ""Another Gospel"" beyond The Bible.
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2006-09-12 12:01:28 · answer #8 · answered by whynotaskdon 7 · 0⤊ 2⤋
who what when were how?
It also says that if your hand causes you to sin cut it off, have you done it, because surly you have sinned.
Also handle some snakes and see if they bite you, preferably cobras.
2006-09-12 11:59:53 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋