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To: ebb tide

Have You No Decency, Holy Father?

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I’ll never understand why Catholics call this heretic Holy Father.

Matthew 23:9
And call no man your father upon the earth: for one is your Father, which is in heaven.

Nor will I understand why they are part of a religion based on papal heresies.


8 posted on 03/21/2024 7:49:12 AM PDT by Responsibility2nd (A truth that’s told with bad intent, Beats all the lies you can invent ~ Wm. Blake)
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To: Responsibility2nd

“ I’ll never understand why Catholics call this heretic Holy Father.”

Because Catholics are Catholic and not Protestants. It is simple. He was elected pope


9 posted on 03/21/2024 7:57:22 AM PDT by stanne
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And call no man your father upon the earth: for one is your Father, which is in heaven.

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.

44 posted on 03/22/2024 2:06:10 PM PDT by Campion (Everything is a grace, everything is the direct effect of our Father's love - Little Flower)
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