![Jesus was not content to derive his ethics from the scriptures of his upbringing. He explicitly departed from them. [...] Since a principal thesis of this chapter is that we do not, and should not, derive our morals from scripture, Jesus has to be honoured as a model for that very thesis.](/assets/img/quote-photos/jesus-was-not-content-to-derive-his-ethics-from-the-scriptures-of-his-upbringing.jpg)
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