Let's not bend the statement there, hombre.
It states to call no man your father, and of course you call your father your father, as does everyone.
'Father' loses it's meaning altogether of you make it exclusive to God- the definition would simply becomes synonymous to the Divine Creator.
Let's look at a couple verses:
Genesis 45:8
"So it was not you who sent me here, but God; and he has made me a father to Pharaoh, and lord of all his house and ruler over all the land of Egypt"
Job 29:16
"I was a father to the poor, and I searched out the cause of him whom I did not know"
The fact is, calling one's spiritual leader 'father' is not inherently wrong. Where the Catholic Church went wrong was in making their leader the 'Vicar of Christ'- that is where 'father' became what the verse you speak of really warns against.
Do not make a statue and worship it.
That's not stated anywhere in the Bible, not that any of you ever considered that
Infant baptism is something both Luther and Calvin taught, for a very simple reason.
For one, if you think the early Christians were not baptizing their infants, especially in the course of poverty and being martyred, than the problem isn't with anything you've learned so much as what you've never considered.
But to the main point, going about your children as little pagans who need to be evangelized before even being part of your pwn familial communion is PREPOSTEROUS.
Case.
Closed.
And as simple as can be :wave2:
