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Within the church, can a woman become a "Father"?
I'll admit that I don't know much when it comes to religion. Can a woman become a "Father" within the church that calls them "Fathers"? If they can, are they still called "Fathers" or something different? Thank you.
6 Answers
- foodieNYLv 79 years agoFavorite Answer
Put simply, no. In the Catholic religion, priests are called father, they forbid women from joining priesthood. Religion is a complicated subject, grasshopper. I'd like to know why they call priests "father" when God is the father.
- 9 years ago
No, no and no. that's not the order of God. If God created family...do we call the woman father? or do we say mother. Then why would God have ANY church call anyone Father let alone a woman.
Matthew 23:9 (KJV)
9 And call no man your father upon the earth: for one is your Father, which is in heaven.
Source(s): Bible www.hisgracesavesministry.org - Richard MLv 79 years ago
You are right you know little about religion and are here just to stir up trouble.
There is only one true church- The Catholic church.
There are only two churches that call their ministers "Father"- The Catholic Church and the Orthodox. Women cannot be ministers in either.
BTW They are called Father because Paul in the New Testament speaks about his congregation as his children.
- MoiLv 79 years ago
no - our instruction
1Ti 3:1 ¶ This [is] a true saying, If a man desire the office of a bishop, he desireth a good work.
1Ti 3:2 A bishop then must be blameless, the husband of one wife, vigilant, sober, of good behaviour, given to hospitality, apt to teach;
1Ti 3:3 Not given to wine, no striker, not greedy of filthy lucre; but patient, not a brawler, not covetous;
1Ti 3:4 One that ruleth well his own house, having his children in subjection with all gravity;
1Ti 3:5 (For if a man know not how to rule his own house, how shall he take care of the church of God?)
1Ti 3:6 Not a novice, lest being lifted up with pride he fall into the condemnation of the devil.
1Ti 3:7 Moreover he must have a good report of them which are without; lest he fall into reproach and the snare of the devil.
1Ti 3:8 ¶ Likewise [must] the deacons [be] grave, not doubletongued, not given to much wine, not greedy of filthy lucre;
1Ti 3:9 Holding the mystery of the faith in a pure conscience.
1Ti 3:10 And let these also first be proved; then let them use the office of a deacon, being [found] blameless.
1Ti 3:11 Even so [must their] wives [be] grave, not slanderers, sober, faithful in all things.
1Ti 3:12 Let the deacons be the husbands of one wife, ruling their children and their own houses well.
1Ti 3:13 For they that have used the office of a deacon well purchase to themselves a good degree, and great boldness in the faith which is in Christ Jesus.
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- 9 years ago
Jesus would approve of the way the churches are ran at all.
8 But YOU, do not YOU be called Rabbi, for one is YOUR teacher, whereas all YOU are brothers. 9 Moreover, do not call anyone YOUR father on earth, for one is YOUR Father, the heavenly One. 10 Neither be called ‘leaders,’ for YOUR Leader is one, the Christ. 11 But the greatest one among YOU must be YOUR minister. 12 Whoever exalts himself will be humbled, and whoever humbles himself will be exalted. 13 “Woe to YOU, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! because YOU shut up the kingdom of the heavens before men; for YOU yourselves do not go in, neither do YOU permit those on their way in to go in. 14 —— 15 “Woe to YOU, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! because YOU traverse sea and dry land to make one proselyte, and when he becomes one YOU make him a subject for Ge·hen′na twice as much so as yourselves.
Isaiah 64:8 And now, O Jehovah, you are our Father. We are the clay, and you are our Potter; and all of us are the work of your hand.
Applying “father” to men as a formalistic or religious title was forbidden by Jesus. (Mt 23:9)
Source(s): (NW) JW - 9 years ago
Are you forgetting that churches, along with their connecting religions, are incredibly sexist....because "the Bible tells them so..."
B.S. if you ask me...ooh, darnit, no one asked me...oh well!