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Rocketship 79F
18531 posts
5/30/2015 5:16 pm

Right!!!


lilium6 74F
4498 posts
5/30/2015 5:48 pm

Quite honestly I don't think it that simple, I think we would be deluding ourselves if so. For those glib of tongue, their conscience already compromised, going through the motions of repentance may outwardly appease their shallow rendering of such but they knowingly deceive themselves. I find it hard to believe heartfelt dialogue has taken place with one's God as I would think suffering would precede a genuine ease of conscience. A seared conscience is one that has become insensitive as set out below, I hope you don't mind the inclusion. Religious leaders are no less immune/exempt unfortunately.

If the conscience is “seared”—literally “cauterized”—then it has been rendered insensitive. Such a conscience does not work properly; it’s as if “spiritual scar tissue” has dulled the sense of right and wrong. Just as the hide of an animal scarred with a branding iron becomes numb to further pain, so the heart of an individual with a seared conscience is desensitized to moral pangs.

Paul identifies those who have a seared conscience in1 Timothy 4:1–2: “The Spirit clearly says that in later times some will abandon the 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.” In this passage, we learn three things about false teachers who lead others into apostasy: 1) they are mouthpieces for evil spirits, since they promulgate “things taught by demons”; 2) they are hypocritical liars, since they wear a mask of holiness but are full of falsehood; and 3) they are unscrupulous, since their consciences have been cauterized. This explains much. How can false teachers lie with no shame and spread deception with no compunction? Because they have seared consciences. They are past feeling that lying is wrong.


spiritwoman45

5/31/2015 10:09 am

A good idea if it actually worked.

Spiritwoman ^i^