God's "Authority" - God's "Authority" over man is exercised by His gracious, life-affirming Will, expressed in the literal and spiritual meaning of His Commandments.

God's absolute, Sovereign Authority over all His creatures is exercised by the Wisdom of His eternal Laws - the firm, immutable Law of cause-and-effect processes in all that exists.

God's "Authority" is the presence of God everywhere, His supreme, true Authority, which is infinite, all-encompassing, all-powerful, eternal, graceful, unified.God manifests His Authority as Ruler in the Wisdom and beauty of the greatness of all things, in the unity and expediency of all the Laws of Being, by which He exercises His undivided Will over all things.

 God also expresses His power in the spiritual and moral Laws of true Life, manifesting Himself to man through His Will expressed in the Covenants, Laws, Commandments.

God the Creator exercises His gracious power, which affirms the righteousness of man, by the revelation of the wisdom of the spiritual Laws of true life, the implementation of which affirms His kingdom of prosperity and eternal life.

Human power is represented by state institutions of governing society: legislative, judicial, executive, religious authorities which are expressed in various ideologies, dogmas which peoples serve and obey.

The power of man in sinful society is represented by laws, patterns, traditions, which are based on a variety of political, religious, psychological, ideological, economic, physical violence against man.

The power of man is represented by a variety of religious, political, and economic systems of governing peoples.

"Power" of sin is the enslavement, oppression, and constraint of the spirit, soul, and body of man by the sinful impulses of the flesh, by his own various delusions. It is the power of lawlessness, deception, temptation.

The power of "darkness" is the rule of rulers who exercise violence by introducing false religious, political and other destructive ideologies and destructive dogmas into the way of life of peoples.