Mats

Why do you call your priest, your bishop or your pope father?
Is there any reason for such traditions?

Mat 23:9 And call no man your father upon the earth: for one is your Father, which is in heaven.
Mat 23:10 Neither be ye called masters: for one is your Master, even Christ.
To all who use it according to your understanding. Father in our family doesnot mean you call them according as what others believe in calling their elders as father for maybe some of you do not understand what really Lord Jesus is trying to emphasize: Eph 6:6 Not with eyeservice, as menpleasers; but as the servants of Christ, doing the will of God from the heart. If you look on the organization of catholics or other denominations they love to be called to be as according to their positions. Whereas an earthly father is a kind of a common use for a children to their earthly parents. So, in the final argument, children who call their father as father or dad is totally a different view and not related to what Lord Jesus is telling about in His teaching but it’s about the pride of men in their hearts. for to me it is very unbiblical to call them father. Besides, there is no biblical reference to call the elders of the church father.
It’s a father in faith but not to the point of calling them father. They are only considered the elder meaning knows how to feed them accordingly as Lord Jesus commanded Peter in John 21. For if you understand the thought of Mat 23:9, you yourself will be ashame if you’re an elders of a catholic organization, for what Lord Jesus Christ is saying is all about in your hearts. If you are a True Born Again Christian, you even feel exalted about such address. Do you? feeling exalted for people has high regards to you;Act 10:34 Then Peter opened his mouth, and said, Of a truth I perceive that God is no respecter of persons. That all is equal in the eyes of God. Meaning, we have to respect one another but not to hte point that we seems to give glory to our elders, for they are sinners like ourselves too. So to me call them brother in Christ is the more appropriate rather than father, and maybe pastor is more appropriate; John 21.
1Jn 4:6 We are of God: he that knoweth God heareth us; he that is not of God heareth not us. Hereby know we the spirit of truth, and the spirit of error.
That only the Holy Spirit within a True Born Again Christians understand God’s Holy Words. for truly the Holy Spirit is the only qualified to interpret God’s Holy Words. Those fathers mentioned in the bible doesnot mean we have to call our elders father but they are father according to order of wisdom and maturity and not to the point of calling them father for there is only one Holy Father we have, our LORD God Almighty in heaven. That even Christ Jesus Himself has shown us how to pray, when He pray to the Father God in heaven which is showing us in giving the glory and honor to the One who truly deserves the glory and not to men with passion like ourselves. Most of us can’t see the truth of Mat 23:9-10, for we are just merely carnal and sinners! Therefore; John 3:7 is what most of us needs in order to see it.