Jesus tells us to "call no man your father upon the earth." Not even dear old dad?

Question

How can we "honor our father" if we refuse to call him our father? Matthew 23:9

Answer 1

Do I have to make my woman stop screaming daddy too???

Answer 2

Hey, I hope I can answer your question correctly. I don't want to take things out of context or be misleading. So, I will tell you what I believe. I have thought about this before. Okay, God is our heavenly Father right? There is a heavenly father and an earthly father or biological father right? The two have two different contexts. Dads are fathers. God said to honor our fathers and our mothers. He speaks directly to fathers in the Bible, using the word, "father." God is our Heavenly Father. When we call God Father, we mean God, we mean supreme, we mean all holy, etc. When we call our Dad's father, we mean protector, provider, etc. I believe that he means that we should not call others Father in the same context that we call Him Father. God said in his word that we do not need a mediator. He said that we don't have to take our prayers or sins to anyone, because Jesus came. So, the word Father as synonymous with God should not be regarded to another in the same way or the same context. God is looking at your heart. When you call God Father what do you mean? When you call your Dad Father or someone else, what do you mean? So, I think it depends upon the context. Hope this helps you!

Answer 3

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Answer 4

read in CONTEXT...before trying to "contradict" the Bible.

This is a good example of rejecting a perfectly biblical Christian practice by taking Scripture out of context. Jesus was simply using his customary hyperbole to emphasise the fact that no man is to take the place of God in our lives. The exaggeration is reminiscent of his exhortation to cut your hand off if it causes you to sin (Matt 5:29-30), or his saying that mountains can be moved with just a little faith (Matt 17:20) or his statement that one must hate one's father and mother to be his disciple (Luke 14:26).

If we take the "call no man your father upon the earth" verse absolutely literally, we are of course forbidden to apply the title even to our biological fathers, which would make the analogy of God as our divine Father meaningless. So obviously there must be some nuances here that we have to take into account. The same consideration applies to the other nearby statements, like verse 10, where Jesus says "Neither be called masters, for you have one master, the Christ" (interestingly, the NIV puts it "Nor are you to be called ‘teacher,’ for you have one Teacher, the Christ", which would, if taken absolutely literally, make things hard for Sunday school teachers...). Common sense would indicate that there is more to this than a simple blanket condemnation of these forms of address. Perhaps instead it is simply that we should not confuse any human fatherly relationship with the spiritual Fatherhood that belongs to God alone - God after all is "the Father, from whom every family in heaven and on earth is named" (Eph 3:14-15). Any fatherhood that we see exercised here on earth should be an attempt to image our Father in heaven, rather than being up itself as the ultimate "father figure" standard as Jesus' opponents here seemed to be doing.

Answer 5

Was it OK for Elisha to cry out "father, father" as Elijah ascended into heaven? (2 Kg.2:12)

What about 1 John 2:14 " I have written unto you, fathers, because ye have known him that is from the beginning." That sounds very much like someone paying respect to fathers.

You can use a Bible verse to support just about any bone-headed doctrine. Pick one.

Answer 6

Dude, Jesus was talking about the Pharisees and how they held themselves on a high pedestal. They always demanded to be called rabbi. But Jesus is metaphorically saying that you should not call your rabbi, rabbi, and your father, father, because you only have one father/rabbi. God. Jesus is just trying to say that you should only follow one person, and that is God. He is not saying that you shouldn't respect your father/rabbi. If you would read the whole chapter you would understand that.

Answer 7

God says that to make sure you do not worship anything else but him. He is not being rude or anything. You can call your dear old father your father. Its a figure of speech.

Answer 8

Matt. 23:9 - Jesus says, "call no man father." But Protestants use this verse in an attempt to prove that it is wrong for Catholics to call priests "father." This is an example of "eisegesis" (imposing one's views upon a passage) as opposed to "exegesis" (drawing out the meaning of the passage from its context). In this verse, Jesus was discouraging His followers from elevating the scribes and Pharisees to the titles of “fathers” and “rabbis” because they were hypocrites. Jesus warns us NOT TO ELEVATE ANYONE TO THE LEVEL OF OUR HEAVENLY FATHER.

Matt. 23:8 – in this teaching, Jesus also says not to call anyone teacher or rabbi as well. But don’t Protestants call their teachers “teacher?” What about this commandment of Jesus? When Protestants say “call no man father,” they must also argue that we cannot call any man teacher either.

Judges 17:10; 18:19 - priesthood and fatherhood have always been identified together. Fatherhood literally means "communicating one's nature," and just as biological fathers communicate their nature to their children, so do spiritual fathers communicate the nature of God to us, their children, through (hopefully) teaching and example.

Eph. 3:14-15 - every family in heaven and on earth is named from the "Father." We are fathers in the Father.

Acts 7:2; 22:1,1 John 2:13 - elders of the Church are called "fathers." Therefore, we should ask the question, "Why don't Protestants call their pastors "father?"

1 Cor. 4:15 - Paul writes, "I became your father in Christ Jesus."

1 Cor. 4:17 - Paul calls Bishop Timothy a beloved and faithful "child" in the Lord.

2 Cor. 12:14 - Paul describes his role as parent over his "children" the Corinthians.

Phil. 2:22 - Paul calls Timothy's service to him as a son serves a "father."

1 Thess. 2:11- Paul compares the Church elders' ministry to the people like a father with his children.

1 Tim. 1:2,18; 2 Tim. 1:2-3 - Paul calls Timothy his true "child" in the faith and his son.

Titus 1:4 - Paul calls Titus his true "child" in a common faith. Priests are our spiritual fathers in the family of God.

Philemon 10 - Paul says he has become the "father" of Onesimus.

Heb. 12:7,9 - emphasizes our earthly "fathers." But these are not just biological but also spiritual (the priests of the Church).

1 Peter 5:13 - Peter refers to himself as father by calling Mark his "son."

1 John 2:1,13,14 - John calls the elders of the Church "fathers."

Isa. 22:21 : and I will clothe him with your robe, and will bind your girdle on him, and will commit your authority to his hand; and he shall be A FATHER to the inhabitants of Jerusalem and to the house of Judah.

Eliakim is called “father” or “papa” of God's people. The word Pope used by Catholics to describe the chief steward of the earthly kingdom simply means papa or father in Italian. This is why Catholics call the leader of the Church "Pope." The Pope is the father of God's people, the chief steward of the earthly kingdom and Christ's representative on earth.

Answer 9

Call no man holy father, for there is only one father which is up in Heaven.
I think God is directly refering to the pope, not an actual biological father.

Answer 10

Not even "dear old dad" should be called your "heavenly father". Stop using Bible verses if you don't understand them. It really makes you appear silly (at best).

Answer 11

It means call no man God upon the earth.