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Originally Posted by freeatlast
None of these verses show that these were addressed as brother or sister.
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No, but they were referenced as such, and that is probably where the tradition derived from, which was my point. (...rather than from the Catholic church.)
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Originally Posted by freeatlast
If it is disrespectful..then please tell me Paul's last name
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I didn't say that it was disrespectful. 
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"God, send me anywhere, only go with me. Lay any burden on me, only sustain me. And sever any tie in my heart except the tie that binds my heart to Yours."
--David Livingstone
"To see no being, not God’s or any, but you also go thither,
To see no possession but you may possess it—enjoying all without labor or purchase—
abstracting the feast, yet not abstracting one particle of it;…."
--Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass, Song of the Open Road
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