Matthew 23:9 Do not call anyone on earth your father; for One is your Father, He who is in heaven.
Do you look at a verse like this and say that we should not call anyone Father because God says so, or do you look at this and say Jesus told off the Scribes and Pharisees for lifting themselves up?
I think that if you don’t think about both then you may have missed the point of Christ saying what He did!
God’s word is here for us to learn from, so we need to learn from what has happened to others and see how that applies to our own lives nowadays.
Don’t look at the Bible as being a set of things that happened for the people at the time it was written about – look at it as instructions for the past, present and future.