This essentially says that Jesus lacked the sense and foresight to realized his simple words would not be understood.Nothing to do with parsing words, but using the context to determine definition. Today, Webster's Dictionary has 22 definitions for father. There may not have been 22 definitions in Aramaic, but there was definitely more than one. We know the one Jesus used was in use. The one we know from Biblical use is Father Abraham. We know from the New Testament spiritual father-child relationships.Nice try at parsing the words. This shows (again) how, given enough centuries, trained minds can deform and detour even the clearest message.
Non-Catholic Christians have booted at least two traditions in place from the time of Christ and the Apostles: The Sacraments and the idea of the spiritual father-child relationships.
Take a look at Martin Luther...he dropped being a father in the Catholic Church use of the word and became the Father of the Lutheran Church/Protestantism is the use Jesus was using. Protestants get around this by calling him Founder.
He taught in parables, metaphor, in order that the greatest and most personal meaning could be appreciated by the least complex audiences. Efforts to re-enforce doctrinal percepts by twisting Jesus' words have largely destroyed the transcendent message that bore early Christians across the centuries before Rome was declared the center of the faith.
Not exactly .. Check out early Christian Writings.. Heresies abounded and everybody was fighting long before Rome every rose to prominence.
See Nag Hammadi .. also
Early Christian Writings: New Testament, Apocrypha ...
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Early Christian Writings is the most complete collection of Christian texts before the Council of Nicaea in 325 AD. The site provides translations and commentary for these sources, including the New Testament, Apocrypha, Gnostics, Church Fathers, and some non-Christian references.