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What happens when idiots attempt to condemn the title of Father.
Desperate thumpers invade common sense, that's what.
Jesus calls Abraham “father” in Matthew 3:9. Saint Stephen in Acts 7:2 calls the Jewish leaders “fathers”, and Saint Paul makes similar statements in Acts 21:40, 22:1 and Romans 9:10. Abraham is called “the father of us all” in Romans 4:16-17.
Saint Paul claims a special kind of fatherhood several times in his letters – he writes about this in I Corinthians 4:14-15, I Timothy 1:2 and Philemon 10. Saint Paul also makes reference to the idea of spiritual fatherhood elsewhere – in Titus 1:4.
John refers to the elders he is writing to in I John as “fathers” (I John 2:13-14).
This is, however, not confined to the New Testament - Joseph tells his brothers “So it was not you who sent me here, but God; and he has made me a father to Pharaoh, and lord of all his house and ruler over all the land of Egypt” in Genesis 45:8. Job has a similar statement - “I was a father to the poor, and I searched out the cause of him whom I did not know” (Job 29:16).
God says that He will make Eliakim, the steward of the house of David, a kind of father when he says “In that day I will call my servant Eliakim, the son of Hilkiah . . . and I will clothe him with [a] robe, and will bind [a] girdle on him, and will commit . . . authority to his hand; and he shall be a father to the inhabitants of Jerusalem and to the house of Judah" in Isaiah 22:20-21.
Elisha cries, “My father, my father!” to Elijah as the latter is carried up to heaven in a whirlwind in II Kings 2:12. Elisha himself is called a father by the king of Israel in II Kings 6:21.
It can be seen that the word “father” is extensively used to refer to not only those who are natural or adoptive fathers, but also those who have a position of superiority over those who act as their children. This can be a spiritual or political leadership, or simply a term of respect.
If we were to forbid the use of the word “father” in any context except refering to God, then it would lose its meaning as there would be no earthly example of fatherhood to enable us to understand divine Fatherhood. It is only by seeing that earthly examples of fatherhood (either real or metaphorical) are pale reflections of divine Fatherhood that we can understand God's role as our heavenly Father.
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