Is is OK to call your father (or anyone else) father?
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This Bible contradiction is from the Skeptic's Annotated Bible.

Verses

No.

Matthew 23:9 View context

And call no [man] your father upon the earth: for one is your Father, which is in heaven.

Yes.

Exodus 20:12 View context

Honour thy father and thy mother: that thy days may be long upon the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee.


Deuteronomy 5:16 View context

Honour thy father and thy mother, as the LORD thy God hath commanded thee; that thy days may be prolonged, and that it may go well with thee, in the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee.


Ephesians 6:2 View context

Honour thy father and mother; (which is the first commandment with promise;)


2 Kings 2:12 View context

And Elisha saw [it], and he cried, My father, my father, the chariot of Israel, and the horsemen thereof. And he saw him no more: and he took hold of his own clothes, and rent them in two pieces.


2 Kings 6:21 View context

And the king of Israel said unto Elisha, when he saw them, My father, shall I smite [them]? shall I smite [them]?


1 John 2:13-14 View context

I write unto you, fathers, because ye have known him [that is] from the beginning. I write unto you, young men, because ye have overcome the wicked one. I write unto you, little children, because ye have known the Father.

I have written unto you, fathers, because ye have known him [that is] from the beginning. I have written unto you, young men, because ye are strong, and the word of God abideth in you, and ye have overcome the wicked one.

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