Fearing Authority
22 Nov 2025 · 1 min
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Speaker A argues that people should fear authority, especially police, to prevent anarchy. He claims modern Bible translations wrongly render a Hebrew term as
Speaker A argues that people should fear authority, especially police, to prevent anarchy. He claims modern Bible translations wrongly render a Hebrew term as
When there isn't a healthy fear of police, you have inevitable anarchy. Inevitable. I speak about this in my Bible commentary. We are told to fear God and fear our parents. This strikes moderns so negatively that translations don't even say fear. They say revere. Man shall revere his mother and father. Shall revere God. No, fear. I know Biblical Hebrew pretty darn well. The word is fear, and I could prove it because God says more than anything else to people in the Bible, do not fear. And he uses the same exact verb.
He doesn't say do not revere.
That's right, authority must have some degree of fear or it's useless.
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