Call No Man Your Father Upon the Earth

Matthew 23:9 And call no man your father upon the earth: for one is your Father, which is in heaven.

To add insult to injury, not contented with the word father they even call him Most Holy Father or Reverend Father where the word reverend is only used or mentioned only once in the entire bible in GOD's name.

Psalms 111:9 He sent redemption unto his people: he hath commanded his covenant for ever: holy and reverend is his name.

The Bible even warned us of Scribes walking on long robes.

Luke 20:46 Beware of the scribes, which desire to walk in long robes, and love greetings in the markets, and the highest seats in the synagogues, and the chief rooms at feasts;

Their teachings are against the law of God:

Exodus 20:4 Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image, or any likeness of any thing that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth:

Exodus 20:5 Thou shalt not bow down thyself to them, nor serve them: for I the LORD thy God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation of them that hate me;

I remember when my mother bought a graven image from a local peddler in our hometown.

She asked the graven image peddler, is that tough?

The peddler answer, yes this wood is hard. The peddler knock the head of the graven image 3 times to prove his point.

After haggling over the price, my mother bought it, took the graven image to her church & let it blessed by a priest.

Back home, put it in the altar and daily lit the candle & changed the breaded sampaguita flower around the graven image neck prior to her ritual repetitive prayers.

What a waste of time!

Romans 1:25 Who changed the truth of God into a lie, and worshipped and served the creature more than the Creator, who is blessed for ever. Amen.