One of the most common complaints I’ve gotten over the years has to do with Matthew 23:9. In this verse we read: “And call no man your father on earth, for you have one Father, who is in heaven.� This is supposed to be a one line refutation of Catholicism because we call our priests “Father�.
Well, it’s happened again. Yesterday in real life, last week by e-mail, and a couple of weeks ago in an Evangelical drive-by comment left here on ye ole blog. In each case, someone tossed out the “call no man father� line with a smug grin and expected me to cave completely, withered by their superior knowledge of the Bible, intellectually bereft of a decent response, utterly defeated.
I think not.
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