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Jul 11, 2023 · A good conscience. How we respond to the feeling from our conscience determines whether or not we have a good conscience. The phrase a good conscience is used in 1 Timothy 1:5: “But the end of the charge is love out of a pure heart and out of a good conscience and out of unfeigned faith.”
Aug 6, 2024 · A person with a good conscience lives and behaves according to a God-given moral code of excellence; he or she possesses upright inner convictions and is able to discern between right and wrong. Paul charges Timothy, “Cling to your faith in Christ, and keep your conscience clear.
17 hours ago · 4. Conscience Is a Priceless Gift from God. The conscience is a gift for your good and joy, and it is something that God—not your mother or father or anyone else—gave you. Consider your sense of touch. That sense is a gift from God that can function as a warning system to save you from great harm.
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I feel the force of the question. Experientially, walking in a good conscience is not easy for me since I share Arnaldo’s deep awareness of my ongoing, indwelling sin. That’s Paul’s term in Romans 7:17, 20, 23. We all have remaining corruption and indwelling sin. The more keenly you are aware of that, the more you will feel embattled at the level o...
Here’s my reading of 1 John 1, starting with verses 6 and 7. Now, that is staggeringly amazing. “If we walk in the light . . . the blood of Jesus . . . cleanses us.” Wow. Here’s 1 John 1:8: “If we say we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us.” Now he’s reeling it back in and saying, “Don’t assume that when I say, ‘Walk in th...
That’s my basic answer to Arnaldo’s question. He feels that as long as he is aware of the reality of indwelling sin, as in Romans 7, he cannot have a good conscience. Now, if that were true, I don’t think Paul could ever have a good conscience, but he clearly says he does have a good conscience. “I thank God whom I serve, as did my ancestors, with ...
I think both Paul and John inherited this concept of ongoing, indwelling sin that nevertheless coexists with a good conscience from the Psalms in the Old Testament. For example, in Psalm 25, David confesses three times that he’s a sinner. “[God] instructs sinners in the way” (verse 8); “Pardon my guilt, for it is great” (verse 11); “Forgive all my ...
Here’s one last implication. People might think, “Well, how does this matter?” Here’s a concrete illustration of how it matters. Suppose a pastor is accused falsely of being unfaithful to his wife. The reason he’s accused is because someone in the congregation hates him and wants him to be dismissed. When he comes before the church or the elders to...
May 3, 2019 · Conscience gives you the ability to evaluate your own thoughts and desires, to discern what is right and wrong, and to distinguish between what is good and what is best. To help us get a handle on conscience and how it functions, I want you to think about an alarm clock.
Mar 14, 2016 · On other accounts of conscience, however, conscience does give us direct access to moral knowledge, for example as an intuition about what is good and what is bad. Let us examine the two accounts of the epistemic role of conscience in more detail.
Dec 29, 2019 · John Frame, a contemporary Reformed philosopher and theologian, defines conscience as the God-given ability to discern good and evil. Franz Delitzsch says that the conscience is the knowledge of divine law that every man bears in his heart.
