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Saturday, August 23, 2008
Conscience?
I know its been forever since I've posted, but since thoughts were brewing in my mind and I'm already at the computer, I decided to start typing. I am reading Hebrews 10. Verse 22 says, "Let us draw near with a true heart in full assurance of faith, having our hearts sprinkled from an evil conscience, and our bodies washed with pure water." So what is an evil conscience? I looked up the word in Strongs, and the word conscience derives from its homophone conscious. Conscience is moral consciousness. So my line of thinking is thus: we utilize our five senses to know that we are conscious, to provide awareness of where we are. We use our conscience to know where we are morally, to provide moral awareness. And if we have an evil conscience, its like a broken compass. It gives us false information, points us in the wrong direction, so that we never really know where we are.