Can a Man Be Called Reverend or Father?
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- Опубліковано 11 вер 2024
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Yea, I refuse to call anyone Pastor either. Pastor is another title like Rabbi that Jesus commanded against.
Sorry, but this is a very vague way of stating an issue.
Reverend in Psalms is just a translation, to a Hebrew word that is NOT a title for God, but a word that means that God's name is to be reverenced, admired, etc.
PY in the bible does not say that religious titles cannot be used, when Jesus says that no one should be called father he does NOT give exceptions, only each one interprets it as he wants, but a literal view of the text would not let us say father to our blood fathers.
But clearly in Matthew Jesus was NOT forbidding that someone who was not a blood father could be called father, that would be unbiblical. Joseph claimed to be Pharaoh's father Gen. 45:8, Elisha called Elijah my father(2kings 2:12, 2 Kings 6:21), Job claimed to be the father of the poor (Job 29:16), etc. So if Jesus was saying it is a bad thing, then the men of the old testament are wrong.
Also in the new testament it does NOT stop at saying father to someone who is not your real father, Stephen calls Abraham father (Acts 7:2), Paul speaks of Isaac as father (Romans 9:10).
To take Mat. 23:8-10 as prohibitions of names is ANTIBIBLICAL, since it not only mentions father, it also mentions Rabbi, and teacher, and the same bible later tells us that God raises up teachers (Ephesians 4:11, 1 Cor. 12:28), Paul calls himself a teacher (2 Timothy 1:11), so God changed his mind????? No.
Jesus spoke much in HYPERBOLE, he said that if your eye was occasion to fall out then you should pluck it out, and he CLEARLY did not mean a literal command, or we would all be without eyes Matthew 5:29, cf. 18:9; Mark 9:47.
Furthermore, the bible DOES speak of spiritual parenthood. Paul speaks that he fathered the Christians he preached 1 Corinthians 4:14-15, Peter calls Mark his son who was NOT his biological son, the apostles very often spoke as fathers of the entire congregations they preached to 2 Cor. 12:14, Galatians 4:19, 1 John 2:1, 3 John 4.