Why we should not call the priests FATHER?

 A priest performing a mass for the Catholic laities or members

Father is the term we frequently hear from the Catholics when they call their priests or to their bishops and also to the Pope in Rome. Is this Biblical or a term which contradicts to the teachings of the Lord Jesus Christ?

According to the teaching of the Catholic Church, why do they call their priests Father? In a Catholic book that the title is “Another Thousand Replies that was written by Rev. Leslie Rumble p. 75 Rockford Illinois: Tan Books and Publisher, Inc. 1979. we can read as follows:

"Catcholic rightly therefore call the priest "FATHER" not to be the exclusion of thier Father in heaven ,but a manifestation on earth of the supreme fatherhood of God in the spiritual order ,even as an earthly parent is a similar manifestation of the same fatherhood in the natural order.(p.75)

Why do they call their priests “father”? It is because it is the manifestation of the fatherhood of God on earth in spiritual leadership.

Now, who started that this term to be called inside the Catholic Church? according to history the one who implemented this is Pope Damasus I in 366-385 A.D.

Now, is it forbidden to call father our father in the flesh? NO! (read Matthew 7:10 and Ephesians 6:2-3) what is wrong to call someone father is the people who became father in spirit or on religion that is strictly forbidden to be called to them

"And call no man your father upon the earth: for one is your Father, which is in heaven.” (Matthew 23:0)

It points outs to the religious leaders like the priests!

 

And these went into Micah's house, and fetched the carved image, the ephod, and the teraphim, and the molten image. Then said the priest unto them, What do ye?

And they said unto him, Hold thy peace, lay thine hand upon thy mouth, and go with us, and be to us a FATHER AND A PRIEST: is it better for thee to be a priest unto the house of one man, or that thou be a priest unto a tribe and a family in Israel? (read Judges 18:18-19)

Here it is strictly forbidden by our Lord Jesus that we should not call any man Father on earth it is because we have only One Father in Heaven (read Matthew 6:9) The God and Father of All (read Ephesians 4:6) He is the Father of spirits (read Hebrews 12:9) and it is God's name from everlasting (read Isaiah 63:16)

There is only one Father of the Christians in term of spiritual leadership. There are no fathers of the Christians but the Father in Heaven (read 1 Corinthians 4:15)

So calling the priest, bishop or the Pope in Rome as father in spirit (read Judges 17:10 )

is really a direct violation of what was said by the Lord Jesus Christ in Matthew 23:9

What happened to the fathers of the Catholics?

"Even from the days of your FATHERS ye are gone away from mine ordinances..."(Malachi 3:7)

"Norwithstanding they would not hear but hardened their neck like to the neck of thier FATHERS, that did not believe in the LORD thier God.(2 king's 17:14)

"...but thou ,and thy FATHER'S HOUSE,in that ye have forsaken the commandments of the LORD ,and thou hast followed BAALIM.(1 King's 18:18)

"...and put away the gods which your FATHER 'S served.."(Josue 24:14)

This is what happened to the fathers of the Catholics. They disobeyed God’s laws and served other gods. The Catholic priests too do the same just like what I posted the Bible verses above. they worship Mother Mary, the saints and the angels by praying on them, they teach doctrines which mostly are against the teachings of the Holy Bible and do some abominable trangressions like pedophilia, rape, premarital sex and others.