Traditional interpretations of authority can tend toward objectification but learning to be a servant in every context is redemptive.
Scriptures:
- Matthew 15:21-28
- Luke 19:6-10
- 2 Samuel 6:20-23
- James 3:7-9
- Genesis 1:26-28
- Philemon 13-16
- 1 Samuel 8:4-9
- Galatians 2:3-6
- 1 Peter 5:2-5
- Genesis 3:16
- Ephesians 5:21-25
Book: The Making of the Atomic Bomb, Richard Rhodes
Dissertation: Self and Morality in American Discourse about Moral Atrocities
Good one! This line of thinking led a life-long advocate of the death penalty to a complete change of mind and heart. However evil their crime was we do not have the right to take a life created by God, imo.