Kay

N #328 “So your claim is that “authority” is not nurturing, self-sacrificing or centrally focused on the good of others.”

You are trying very hard to somehow morph & equate “authority” into/with self-sacrifice. Hmmm…won’t happen – these two different things are not synonymous.

NN:”What then are the implications of raising children as described in the Bible? What then shall we call the actions of a parent who nurtures their child by disciplining them for getting into the medicine cabinet? Or insists that they do need to finish their homework despite the pressing allure of a video game? ”

You must be unfamiliar with the term ‘parental guidance’. Why do you try to put “authority”

NN:”(fortunately my children are still young)”

Wives do not = children

NN:”Are these actions characteristic of “authority?” – Absolutely”

No, they are not. A person with ‘authority’ can also have the characteristics of ‘nurturing’, etc, but they are NOT synonymous.
(ie.Hitler, Saddam Hussein)

NN:”Is this type of authority rightly nurturing, self-sacrificing and centered on the good of others. – Completely”

Again, there is no such thing as that “type of authority.” A person can be both “in authority” and “self-sacrificing”, but they are not the same thing.