Yes- submission to authority is inescapable for life, relationships, and all knowledge. You can know nothing apart from trust or reference to prior knowledge - what you learned from what you learned before and from whom! Also, how can you trust yourself without purification, also polluted by sin without cure?

In a world of unworthy authority figures, imperfect and marred by sin, let us surrender first to the one who is holy, perfect, and blameless. This is childlike faith, without guile or pretense.

"I believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has risen: not only because I see it, but because by it I see everything else." C.S. Lewis