Are You Using the Verb Negatively?

E-galitarians look at the same passages and say, see, it's a negative word. It's negative authority; commentarians say, no, it's not. So it gets really fascinating to kind of, you know, look at these same text with them and try to make up your own mind. Well, is it being used negatively here or just in a neutral or positive way? Let me give you one reference. This is some people say that this might be the most important.