It’s a Matter of Conscience
It's a Matter of Conscience
1 Corinthians 8 holds the key to understanding the conscience and how Satan attacks believers and non-believers alike with guilt to drive a wedge between man and God.
We need to have a sensitive conscience towards the Lord, but in the right way and about the right things. Satan works to defile our conscience in order to destroy the freedom that we have in Christ.
Learn the difference between false and true righteousness and how Christ can set you free in order that you may serve Him with a clear conscience.
He whom the Son sets free, is free indeed!
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March 18th, 2009 at 9:31 am
I guess it doesn’t pay to comment here if you disagree because they’ll just delete your comments anyway, but I’ll try again to briefly explain my objections to the pretexts in this podcast. The whole foundation is that Satan supposedly produces guilt in our conscience to drive a wedge between us and God. Unfortunately this concept is taught nowhere in scripture but certain bits of “proof texts” are hand picked and amalgomated together to try to produce a preconceived doctrine which is foreign to what any of the proof texts actually teach in their proper context.
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The Bible actually teaches that the conscience is given to us by God to be our compass of knowing right and wrong. It also teaches that to ignore the guilt perceived in this God-given conscience is to sear it and prevent God’s Spirit from doing His work in you. Perhaps most importantly it says to attribute the Spirit’s work in us through our conscience to Satan, is to commit the unpardonable sin because it denies His ability to do His work in us and bring us to repentance and ultimately regeneration.
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Readers can learn more on this topic by going to the forums by clicking on the link at the top of the page, and read the “Matter of conscience” and “Fig leaves” threads under “General discussions” unless they delete those too.
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David
March 18th, 2009 at 10:25 am
Bro. Dave, you know that is not true. Anyone is welcome to post comments. It’s just that your comments were too lengthy for the intended purpose of the comment section. That is why the Forums are available. The Forums are better equipped for lengthy discussions. You can get to the forums here:
http://truthstream.yuku.com
Enjoy.