"We were created for the purpose of showing to the God who bore us the submission we owe Him, of recognizing Him alone, and of serving Him."

"We are obliged and bound by this duty to God; From this, religion itself receives its name."

~ Pope John XXIII

..Distinctions are tough to recognise sometimes but they exist, none the less. This seems to be the problem in this conversation.

..Did anyone in the NT address the Apostles personaly as "father" like the Roman church teaches it's followers? Nope....and why is that? Because they were told not to. Stop calling these priests "father"....Jesus told us not to do that.

...Ever see the movie..."The 10 Commandments?"...."the skin of his face shone" Exodus 34::29.
..."his face shone" Exodus 34:30.
...What we have here, is a demonstration that the KJV....did not come from the church of Rome, as claimed by the Vatican.
...Rome is chock full of pagan symbolism, another demonstration are the paintings of God by Michealangelo, a direct insult to God. "thou shalt not make images of anything that is in heaven above" Exodus 20:4
...Playing with pagan symbolism is not a Christian thing to do, yet Rome copy-cats the Chaldean priesthood, including the Chaldean "fish mouth" head gear of antiquity.
...Did Jesus or his Apostles try to mimic the Chaldean priesthood? No they did not, so who is fooling who?
..."Beware of the scribes, which desire to walk in long robes...." Luke 20:46.

..."Horns" were placed on the 4 corners of the "Alter of burnt offerings"...See Exodus 27. Moses had no horns....ever. Michealangelo belonged to a pagan religion.

...It is one thing to refer to biblical leaders of the past...Fathers of the faith, it is another thing to call them "father" when we address them personaly. That is the difference Jesus was talking about, otherwise why would he have mentioned the point?

...Maybe you should read that passage over again, we are not to call religious leaders ...."Father", as if willingly transfering spritual supremacy to them. Many Protestants do the same thing by calling there leader "Pastor" or the Jews "Rabbi"....that is what this passage is about.
...In other words ...don't swoon over these guys. If they were being biblicaly honest they would want to be called by thier name, but many of them love that kind of power and authority over you. They want to be recognised for thier imagined superior spritual relationship with God....to the point they are elevated above you. That is what Jesus was talking about.
...None of the Apostles were ever addressed by title as if they were in the military, but by name only.

....Interesting that the little round disc with a cross on it.... is a popular Sumerian religious symbol. Jesus broke bread...not a litle round sun disc.
....The "cross' is a symbol of the Tau.....used long before Jesus was crucified.
....In Rome they showed me Michealangelos' statue of "Moses", it has horns on it's head.
....Peter the Apostle, never went to Rome, but Simon (peter) Magus from the book of Acts, sure did, they even had a statue of him on the shore of the Tiber river.
....The Holy Bible warns us to "call no man father" in regard to religious leadership.
....Easter is the correct pronunciation for "Astarte" an ancient Pagan deity, whose son Tammuz was born on Dec.25.
....Do we have a pattern...here?

..If you don't see the Holy Bible as the final authority....then anything goes, like virgin worship that was popular in Rome.
...In the beginning was the "Word"...and the "Word" was made flesh....follow the "Word of God"....not the opinions of men from who knows what background. Do not "substitute the traditions of men"....for the commands of God.

...There is no "star of david" in the Holy Bible.
... "But ye have borne the tabernacle of your Moloch and Chiun your images,the "star" of your god, which ye made to yourselves. Amos 5:26