Sentences with phrase «genuine precepts»

For the Thomas Jefferson part: «To the corruptions of Christianity I am indeed, opposed; but not to the genuine precepts of Jesus himself.
To the corruptions of Christianity I am, indeed, opposed; but not to the genuine precepts of Jesus himself.

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But if one self - proclaims as Christian, one is presumably at least making attempts to live these precepts, and feels genuine remorse when one fails to do so.
The lack of the authenticating thread for genuine natural law - the nonnegotiable insistence that there are some universally valid precepts derivable by nature and unable not to be known (however much we are tempted to overlook them or pretend we do not know them)» is most clearly evident in the sections of each chapter where Porter sketches what contemporary moral theology can discover from her medieval labors.
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