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📖🎙️ **"Call No Man Father?" — The Favorite Mic Drop… That Falls Apart**

“Call no man father.”
You’ve seen it. You’ve heard it.
Dropped like a mic… conversation over.

Except… it’s not.

Because in the *same breath*, Jesus also says not to call anyone “teacher.”
And yet — **Ephesians 4** — God *gives teachers to the Church.*

So either:
Scripture contradicts itself…
the apostles ignored Jesus immediately…
or maybe… we’re not reading the whole thing.

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Paul literally says:
👉 *“I became your father in Christ Jesus”* (1 Cor 4:15)

And just in case that wasn’t clear —
he was **celibate**.

No wife. No kids.
Still calls himself a father.

Peter calls Mark his “son.”
John writes to “little children.”
The language is everywhere.

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So what’s going on?

Jesus wasn’t banning vocabulary.
He was condemning **spiritual pride** —
the kind that loves titles… but not responsibility.

Because if you take it *literally*?

You don’t just lose “father.”
You lose “teacher.”
You lose “doctor” (which literally means teacher).
You lose “Mr.” and “Mrs.” (which come from “master”).

At that point… language itself falls apart.

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This is one of my favorite proofs against private interpretation outside of scripture... #short
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The people who often think they are railing against man-made Traditions are oftentimes swallowing them Hook Line and sinker

Sola scriptura is a man-made tradition added to the scriptures that not only is itself not found in scriptures so it fails its own test, but it is in fact anti-scriptural.

Premise 1: Sola scriptura, that is Scripture alone is the sole infallible binding source of Authority for the Christian (Only Ss are As)

Premise 2: the Canon of scripture is not found in Scripture (No CS are Ss)

Therefore: the Canon of scripture is not authoritative or binding (No CS are As)

Now it is a given that this conclusion is problematic but it flows logically from the two premises so either one of those premises is incorrect, or else the conclusion is valid. #short
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