“I’ve met church members who are hard on themselves. Like radar that mistakes birds for bombers, their consciences hold them in a state of emergency. They live under the threat of God’s judgment. They apologize a lot. Some are hard on others, too. Like air traffic controllers with defective equipment, they cry danger when there is none. They accuse a lot.” - 9 Marks
“… people whose consciences were wracked with guilt over sin, real or imagined, that left them in despair. While many causes could give rise to this, one was clearly what we would call an over-scrupulous conscience.” - 9 Marks
“Theologian Charles Hodge (1797–1878) describes the conscience as a ‘mysterious power,’ a mental faculty that seems both to emerge from our inner world and stand outside of us as an external judge. A further complication arises from the evident reality that one’s conscience can malfunction.” - 9 Marks
“Deepak Reju helps pastors counsel their people when there is no passage of Scripture that explicitly addresses a particular question or issue.
Read Part 1.
Is it OK to go up the down staircase?
If it violates the spirit of the law, no it’s not. If it doesn’t, it’s fine.
But as I noted last time, when it doesn’t violate the spirit of the law, there are other things to consider.
Ah, that “doubtful things” issue again.
Yep.
“The Greek word for conscience appears in the New Testament thirty-one times, and it seems to have a two-fold dimension, as the medieval scholars argued. It involves the idea of accusing as well as the idea of excusing.” - R.C. Sproul
“The American Solidarity Party is a small but growing alternative to the Trump-Biden race.” - Christianity Today
“It is said that an argument is what convinces reasonable men and a proof is what it takes to convince even an unreasonable man. With the proof now in place, cosmologists can no longer hide behind the possibility of a past-eternal universe…. There is no escape, they have to face the problem of a cosmic beginning” - Imaginative Conservative
“Steven D. Smith’s The Disintegrating Conscience and the Decline of Modernity traces the successive transformations of how we understand conscience by highlighting three key figures in its redefinition in the Anglo-American world: Thomas More, James Madison, and William Brennan.” - Religion & Liberty
