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Good Morning COL. "Conscience Day"......My conscience is in my gut and then my mind has to figure out what to do with it.....! You know that "Gut Feeling" COL.
That is why I always go with my gut....
"Reason often makes mistakes, but conscience never does." — Josh Billings
If I do make a mistake, it is on me and i don't forget....!
I have to get going, lot's of people coming today and tomorrow and I'm burning daylight...!
Have a super Saturday, Say good morning to Bella as you get prepared to flower the graves and Mom at breakfast....
Rock It.....

Good morning from Dallas, Texas COL Mikel J. Burroughs . Haven't adjusted to the time change but I leave tomorrow morning.
Conscience is that small voice that often sends us back to fix something that we let go by in the first place. Sometimes it works to keep us from doing the wrong thing and other times sends us back. If I have violated my conscience, it worries at me until I fix whatever is wrong. While it can't bite me, it certainly continues to bark at me.
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I am very late today, i am sorry for that. As I was looking for something about conscience, I was taken in many directions. I ran across something from an article written in 2011 that I found very interesting and felt that I should share it with you. Have a blessed day my RP Family.

Taken from grace university.edu

A Biblical Theology of the Human Conscience
Nov 5th, 2011 | By Dr. Jim Eckman | Category: Ethics, Featured Issues
The term “conscience” is not found in the Old Testament. Perhaps the closest OT term to conscience is “heart” (e.g., 1 Samuel 24:5). In the New Testament “conscience” is used 31 times, mostly by Paul. The key passage is Romans 2:14-15. Scripture teaches that humans, made in the image of God, have an innate sense of right and wrong, a moral monitor that either “approves or accuses” (see Romans 2:14-15). Conscience serves as an umpire, which disposes the human to view life situations in a moral/ethical light, thus judging/determining that some actions are “right” and some are “wrong.” The Fall has drastically affected conscience but has clearly not destroyed it. Evidence of this innate sense of right and wrong is a general agreement in all cultures about certain basic ethical issues (e.g., murder, incest, pedophilia, lying, stealing, etc.).

How Conscience is developed in the NT: A human being may actually be sincerely following a wrong moral standard that deepens convictions about the “rightness” of certain actions. Consider Paul before his conversion: Saul (as he was then known) persecuted Christians with a “good conscience” (Acts 23:1). His deep-seated conviction (i.e., his conscience) told him “do right” and his ethical standard was “it is right to persecute Christians.” Thus he followed his conscience but what he did was wrong, because his deep-seated conviction (i.e., his conscience) was ill-informed. God needed to change his convictions, which He did–beginning at the Damascus Road with his salvation.

When a person becomes a Christian, his/her conscience is heightened, as it were, by being informed both by Scripture and the work of the Holy Spirit. This is in many ways a lifelong process. When we then violate personal, societal or biblical standards, we experience guilt. This is one of the blessings of the conscience for the believer. This “thermostat” keeps us from doing what might prove injurious to ourselves and to others and ultimately to our relationship with God. When we willfully sin, conscience in conjunction with the Holy Spirit causes us to experience guilt. We are then prompted to confess our sins (1 John 1:9) and experience the love and forgiveness of God. This is now the ongoing process of how we deal with guilt in our lives—via confession (i.e., agreeing with God about our sin).
For you as a believer, conscience may accuse you of something [or you may have convictions about something] when in actuality the action you are contemplating may either be morally neutral or even right. This is essentially what Paul is discussing in 1 Corinthians 8-10 and Romans 14. Here the believer’s conscience is “weak,” (i.e., his/her convictions are not in conformity with the truth—the correct theological “knowledge” about idolatry and food). So, at that point the mature believer must decide to either press his/her freedom or, because of the undeveloped conscience of the weaker brother/sister, choose not to exercise that freedom. This “weaker” believer then must be open to the liberating teaching of the Holy Spirit who uses God’s Word to teach the truth about all things, including how to look at cultural standards, traditions and practices.
For the believer, there is such a thing as a “seared conscience” (e.g., 1 Timothy 4:2). If conscience is disobeyed repeatedly or if a believer refuses to develop the deep-seated convictions about issues of life and the maturing process is then halted, one’s sensitivity to moral issues soon becomes dulled. If this continues, then the result is a seared conscience: Convictions about a particular issue are developed that the believer knows are wrong or those convictions have not been fully informed by God’s Word. In this case, conscience is then “seared.” This is what I believe occurs with some genuine believers when it comes to homosexuality, for example. Convictions are developed that to practice homosexuality is not wrong ethically. Continued sin then desensitizes the conscience and the conscience has been seared—either by conscious disobedience to the clarity of God’s Word, or by convictions developed without the clear teaching of God’s Word. Moreover, Scripture teaches that unconfessed sin and ongoing unbelief can also lead to a desensitized conscience (see Hebrews 3:12-13). As Postmodernism is intersecting with evangelical Christianity, this is occurring with greater frequency.
Conscience can also “malfunction” in the sense that it becomes overly sensitive or hypersensitive. Here the conscience “over-functions,” condemning and accusing the Christian for small errors, forgiven actions and normal human failures. This constant self-criticism and self-reproach rob the Christian of joy and any sense of progress in growth toward Christ-likeness. The result is often a performance-based Christianity that focuses on actions, not God’s grace, as the basis for acceptance. Performance-based Christianity is what produces legalism and so much defeat in the Christian life. [“If I am not performing the way I think I should, the way my pastor thinks I should, or the way my friends think I should” can produce the over-sensitive conscience, and thereby false guilt.] False guilt is one of the lethal results of performance-based spirituality.
The goal of the Christian believer, then, is to develop a mature conscience. The Holy Spirit teaches the believer most clearly what is right and wrong from the objective Word of God. That Word informs us of the truth; the Spirit then enables us to “welcome, embrace” that truth (see 1 Corinthians 2:6-16), so that it transforms us from the inside out; and then we begin to develop those deep-seated convictions in the nonmoral areas of life that can guide and direct us. The Bible teaches that it is wrong to go against “conscience” but it also clearly teaches that we must be careful to have our conscience informed by God’s Word.


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