Re: What Jews believe

"James J. Gavan" <jgavandeletethis@shaw.ca> wrote:
> Judson McClendon wrote: 
> 
>
> Now if I want to take it LITERALLY like you do, then I have significantly 
sinned by calling James Gavan (1901 - 1975), my FATHER.
> 
>
> It doesn't offend me one iota so far as religion is concerned. (Quite acci
dentally yesterday I picked up on a site of letters to
> CBC - and boy those messages were vitriolic about Catholicism).
>
> Sorry Judson, but the convoluted way you sort things out, and arrive at yo
ur clear cut view, seems to me to be just plain bloody
> daft.

What is "daft" or "convoluted" about asking how a group of believers in
Jesus interpret the words of Jesus that literally translate to forbidding th
eir
common practice? I think that's an entirely reasonable thing to do. Though
I never called him that directly (most people where I live use "dad" or
"daddy" instead), I sometimes referred to my dad as my "father" My
interpretation of that Scripture is that it doesn't apply to biological fath
ers,
and maybe not to adopted fathers either, because my interpretation is that
Jesus was referring specifically to using "father" in the spiritual or
authoritarian sense. I didn't say they shouldn't do it, I simply explained m
y
confusion over it and asked, because I would like to know. I still would
like to know. All I've received so far is being called names and ridiculed
for asking a simple question.
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"For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that
whoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life."