Your 'conscience' is a God-given sense of what is right and what is wrong; a moral compass that resides in one's heart and mind.
What the Law requires is written in their hearts, a fact to which their own consciences testify, and their thoughts will either accuse or excuse them. Romans 2:15
The Word of God speaks of those with consciences that are 'seared' and rendered insensitive to moral pangs ...
The Spirit clearly says that in later times some will abandon their faith and follow deceiving spirits and things taught by demons. Such teachings come through hypocritical liars, whose consciences have been seared as with a hot iron. 1 Timothy 4:1-2
'Spiritual scar tissue' has dulled their ability to discern the difference between good and evil. This explains how false teachers can lie without shame and spread deception without compunction. They have 'seared consciences' ... past feeling that their evil intent is sinful.
Don Anderson - When a person has fallen prey to a cauterized conscience, he does not even realize that: he is lying, or that he is a drunk, or that he is living an immoral lifestyle, or that he is greedy, or that he is selfish.
In these 'last days' we have seen morality turned on its head. Scripture gives us a fearful warning ...
Woe to those who call evil good, and good evil; Who substitute darkness for light and light for darkness; Who substitute bitter for sweet and sweet for bitter. Isaiah 5:20
The lies of the devil are an abomination to those who have surrendered their lives to the Lordship of Jesus Christ. Rather than follow the fabricated doctrines of apostates, we 'fight the battle well, holding on to faith and a good conscience' (1 Timothy 1:18-19).
You are to navigate this fallen world with an understanding of how the enemy has corrupted the minds of those who deny Christ. You possess the light of the Gospel ... have no fellowship with that darkness.
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