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So vote it here, please...

I'm catholic but i don't pray to saints, it's true what most of you guys say here that most of us are mislead and it's when you ask to another Catholic why we pray to saints they'd like go into total shock. You don't need the whole country or world to know that your a saint.

"And you wanna stop you really do. It's like a dream, you can't stop dreams"

and i agree with you punkboiryan, evrything you put in there. Even though if I will also get yelled at for this too.

"And you wanna stop you really do. It's like a dream, you can't stop dreams"

"i just want one priest to answer me why they call him father when it says in the bible not to call anyone on earth father because only god in heaven is the father."





The question asked seems to presuppose that this passage of Scripture should be taken literally as an absolute prohibition ie, that we should call no man father. In other words, if we were to interpret Matthew 23:9 literally, no one could be called father, not even our biological fathers. Christians could not, for example, celebrate Fathers Day. Nor could George Washington be called "the father of our country." Is this what Jesus intended? Of course not! Doesn't Jesus Himself tell the rich young man to "keep the commandments" including the one to "honor your father and mother" (Matthew 19:19)? And when the Jews questioned Jesus about His teaching that He is "the bread of life," doesn't He respond to them by saying: " I am the bread of life. Your fathers (ie the ancestors of the Jewish people who took part in the Exodus from Egypt with Moses and are therefore called the "fathers" of Israel) ate the manna in the wilderness and they died" (John 6:48-49)?

I hope this in some way answers your question. The "father" that Jesus was referring to was Father as in the GOD head. In other words we should call no one else "God" because the only God is our heavenly father.