Common Objections
“Call No Man Father”
When Jesus says ‘call no man your father on earth,’ he's warning against pride and against putting any human in the place of God the Father — not banning the word ‘father.’ Scripture itself, including Jesus, uses ‘father’ for people constantly.
The same passage 'bans' teacher and master too
In the same breath Jesus says call no one ‘teacher’ or ‘master.’ Since Christians obviously have teachers, the saying is clearly hyperbole about humility — no one on earth may take the place that belongs to God and to Christ.
The apostles call people ‘father’
Paul calls himself the Corinthians' father: ‘in Christ Jesus I became your father through the gospel.’ Stephen and Scripture address the ancestors as ‘fathers,’ and everyone calls Abraham ‘our father.’ The inspired writers didn't read Matthew 23 as a word ban.
Common objections
“But Jesus said it — ‘call no man father.’”
Then to be consistent you'd have to stop calling your dad 'father' and stop calling anyone a teacher — which contradicts the rest of Scripture. Jesus uses vivid overstatement to make a point about pride and God's supremacy; the apostles show us how to read it by freely using 'father' themselves.
Scripture quoted verbatim from the World English Bible (public domain).