Greeting to all in the name of the Lord Jesus,
please, let not bash,
understand the question, "who is your pope".
is the question directed as a person, or a thing.
see the list, Your commentary?
Private interpretation?
A Christian Author or speaker?
Your Minister?
if so then, is the Word of God, or his Law is a lamp unto your feet, and a light unto your path, is not your pope. speaking in a Spiritual sense.
and as for a guide, Acts 8:29 "Then the Spirit said unto Philip, Go near, and join thyself to this chariot. 30 And Philip ran thither to him, and heard him read the prophet Esaias, and said, Understandest thou what thou readest? 31 And he said, How can I, except some man should guide me? And he desired Philip that he would come up and sit with him".
and as for father, true call no man father upon the earth, but in what sense?. not as the head or the source of our being. but as an help or guide. 1 John 2:13 "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". see the contrast, fathers here are not used in the sense that they are God, NO, but as a nurturing example to follow in the Lord. as the apostle himself said, "be ye followers of me, as He is of Christ". we must understand the word "Father", in how it is used. Noun,G3962, pater, from a root signifying a nourisher, protector, upholder. (ONLY IN THE LORD). did not Paul say to Timothy, 1 Timothy 1:2 "Unto Timothy, my own son in the faith: Grace, mercy, and peace, from God our Father and Jesus Christ our Lord". Timothy was not the apostle Paul son according to the flesh, scripture prove that. but in FAITH, as a nurturing example in the Lord.
lets get a bigger picture, was God the Father of Christ Jesus, according to the flesh, YES, but according to the Spirit NO. go back and understand the word "Father", a nourisher, protector, upholder. in our Lord's case there 'was" a nature that would suffer, (flesh), and there was nature that would protect, and help the suffering nature. that's what a father do. not as the source of the person creation, NO, only the Spirit, God is the ONLY FATHER, or CREATOR. so the word father is not use, as in some context as the creator, Oh no, but as an protector, helper, a guide, (ONLY IN THE LORD). we must truly understand the word father, and how it is used. remember, get out of the BOX. one good example, have not many of you not say the church fathers?. in reference to the early church leaders?. so why do you used that word father there?.
listen to what was listed. and as the apostle James said, "Wherefore, my beloved brethren, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, slow to wrath, For the wrath of man worketh not the righteousness of God".
