The word “father” appears 1,675 times in the KJV, counting its plural. “Father,” with “father’s,” makes up 1,126 of them and “fathers” 549, mostly in the Old Testament. In Scripture a father is the one a family comes from, who provides for it, teaches it and corrects it. God takes the name for himself, above all in the New Testament. Jesus gave us the clearest picture of what the word means in a story about a son who wasted everything.…

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