5 Bible Verses Protestants Always Misuse.

5 Bible Verses Protestants Always Misuse. "Call no man father." "Vain repetitions." "Where two or three are gathered." "If anyone adds to this book." "The tradition of men." Five verses you've heard a thousand times. Five verses used to dismiss calling priests "Father," the Jesus Prayer, the organized Church, Sacred Tradition, and the Orthodox Bible. But each of these verses says something very different when you read what comes right before and right after them. This video reads the verses and the verses around them. The pattern is always the same: pull one verse out of context, ignore what the same author says three verses later, and build an entire doctrine on isolated words. The early Church never read Scripture this way. And when you see what these verses actually say in context, the arguments built on them collapse. 📖 THE FIVE VERSES IN CONTEXT 1. Matthew 23:9 "Call no man father" but Paul calls himself "father" in 1 Corinthians 4:15 2. Matthew 6:7 "Vain repetitions" but Jesus prayed the same prayer three times in Gethsemane (Matthew 26:44) 3. Matthew 18:20 "Where two or three are gathered" context is Church discipline (Matthew 18:15-18), not casual prayer 4. Revelation 22:18-19 "If anyone adds to this book" refers to the Book of Revelation, not the Bible (the NT canon didn't exist yet) 5. Mark 7:8 "Tradition of men" Jesus condemns Corban (Mark 7:11-13), not all tradition; Paul commands keeping apostolic tradition (2 Thessalonians 2:15) 📖 ADDITIONAL SCRIPTURE REFERENCES 1 Corinthians 4:15 Paul: "I became your father in Christ Jesus" Acts 7:2 Stephen: "Brothers and fathers, listen to me" Matthew 26:44 Jesus prayed the same words three times Psalm 136 "His steadfast love endures forever" repeated 26 times Revelation 4:8 Angels "never cease" saying "Holy, holy, holy" Matthew 18:15-18 Church discipline and authority to bind and loose 2 Thessalonians 2:15 "Hold to the traditions taught by spoken word or letter" 📚 EARLY CHURCH SOURCES • St. Ignatius of Antioch (c. 110 AD) Called bishops "father" in his epistles • St. Irenaeus of Lyon (c. 180 AD) Against Heresies: Scripture and apostolic tradition inseparable • The Didache (c. 70 AD) Structured prayers including the Lord's Prayer three times daily • Council of Hippo (393 AD) First council to ratify the 27-book NT canon • The Septuagint The seven books Luther removed in 1534 were in every Christian Bible for 1,500 years 🔑 KEY TERMS • Prooftexting Pulling a verse out of context to support a predetermined conclusion • Βατταλογήσητε (battalogeo) "To babble"; NOT "to repeat" appears only once in the NT • Παράδοσις (paradosis) "Tradition"; same Greek word used positively by Paul and negatively by Jesus context determines meaning • Corban Pharisaic practice of dedicating wealth to God to avoid supporting parents ✚ Ancient Faith Explained Scripture, Church Fathers, 2,000 years of history. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 📺 EXPLORE MORE: ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ▶ More answers to Protestant questions: Orthodox Apologetics [   • Orthodox Apologetics   ] ▶ Where the Bible came from [    • How the Bible Was Made   ] ▶ "Which Old Testament Did the Apostles Use?" (Septuagint vs Masoretic) [    • Which Old Testament Did the Apostles Use?   ] ▶ See all playlists:    / @ancientfaithexplained   🤝 BECOME A MEMBER    / @ancientfaithexplained   📷 IMAGE CREDITS • Saint Paul the Apostle icon: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi... • Christ and the Pharisees, Gracanica: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi... • Orthodox blessing service: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi... • Saint Paul, Bowyer Bible: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi... • Catacombs of Domitilla, Rome: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi... • Saint Irenaeus: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi... ⚠️ DISCLAIMER This video does not attack Protestants it challenges prooftexting. Every verse is read in its full biblical context. The early Church Fathers and Paul himself are the primary witnesses. © 2026 Ancient Faith Explained. All rights reserved. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 📚 RECOMMENDED READING: ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ▶ "The Orthodox Church" by Kallistos Ware The classic introduction to Eastern Orthodoxy. Essential reading for anyone curious about what the Church taught for 1,500 years before the Reformation. https://amzn.to/4uOoD56 ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ As an Amazon Associate I earn from qualifying purchases. #bibleverses #Prooftexting #orthodoxchristianity