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    Conscience is the faculty that allows humans to distinguish between right and wrong and feel remorse or rectitude depending on whether an action conforms to or violates one's moral values. Religious views see conscience as linked to inherent human morality, divinity, or the universe, while secular views see it as genetically determined with content learned culturally. Conscience informs moral judgment and whether such judgments are or should be based in reason is debated. A conscience can be weak, seared, or defiled depending on how actions align with one's understanding and beliefs, while a pure conscience freely acts in line with one's moral compass without guilt.

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    Conscience is the faculty that allows humans to distinguish between right and wrong and feel remorse or rectitude depending on whether an action conforms to or violates one's moral values. Religious views see conscience as linked to inherent human morality, divinity, or the universe, while secular views see it as genetically determined with content learned culturally. Conscience informs moral judgment and whether such judgments are or should be based in reason is debated. A conscience can be weak, seared, or defiled depending on how actions align with one's understanding and beliefs, while a pure conscience freely acts in line with one's moral compass without guilt.

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    Conscience is the faculty that allows humans to distinguish between right and wrong and feel remorse or rectitude depending on whether an action conforms to or violates one's moral values. Religious views see conscience as linked to inherent human morality, divinity, or the universe, while secular views see it as genetically determined with content learned culturally. Conscience informs moral judgment and whether such judgments are or should be based in reason is debated. A conscience can be weak, seared, or defiled depending on how actions align with one's understanding and beliefs, while a pure conscience freely acts in line with one's moral compass without guilt.

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    What is Conscience?

    Is an aptitude, faculty, intuition, or judgment of the intellect that


    distinguishes right from wrong. Moral evaluations of this type may reference
    values or norms (principles and rules). In psychological terms conscience is often
    described as leading to feelings of remorse when a human does things that go
    against his/her moral values, and to feelings of rectitude or integrity when actions
    conform to such norms. The extent to which conscience informs moral judgment
    before an action and whether such moral judgments are, or should be, based wholly
    in reason has occasioned debate through much of the history of Western
    philosophy.

    Religious views of conscience usually see it as linked to a morality inherent in all


    humans, to a beneficent universe and/or to divinity. The diverse ritualistic,
    mythical, doctrinal, legal, institutional and material features of religion may not
    necessarily cohere with experiential, emotive, spiritual or contemplative
    considerations about the origin and operation of conscience. Common secular or
    scientific views regard the capacity for conscience as probably genetically
    determined, with its subject matter probably learned, or imprinted (like language)
    as part of a culture.

    “Deep within his conscience man discovers a law which he has not laid upon
    himself but which he must obey.  Its voice, ever calling him to love and to do what
    is good and to avoid evil, sounds in his heart at the right moment” (GS 16) .

    “Conscience is a judgment of reason whereby the human person recognizes the


    moral quality of a concrete act…   In all that he says and does, man is obliged to
    follow faithfully what he knows to be just and right” (CCC 1778) .

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conscience

    http://www.godsplanforlife.org/Teachings/Role%20Of%20Conscience.htm
    DIFFERENT TYPES
    OF CONSCIENCE
    1. WEAK - (I Corinthians 8:1-7) "knowledge puffs up" producing a weak
    conscience.

    My knowledge says there are no idols, only one God. But some were taught before
    Christ, don't eat food offered to idols. We know that is DUMB. But the brother
    who holds on to that truth, the scripture says, still has a weak conscience. If that
    person would eat because I told him to, he would be full of guilt and probably
    angry with me. If people are brought up under biblical law instead of grace, that
    will cause them to have a weak conscience.

    Whenever we do things out of a weak conscience, we end up with guilt and


    condemnation. In order to change that, we need not only knowledge, but purifying
    through the blood of Jesus.

    2. SEARED - (I Timothy 4:1-3)


    What are doctrines of demons - forbidding & abstaining.

    If your conscience is seared, Satan can cause you to do and act contrary to God's
    Word.

    Seared means branded (like animals). It dulls the senses so not to feel any longer.
    How do we become seared? By committing a sin over and over until our
    conscience won't bother us. These are people who will walk all over you without
    flinching at their actions. They don't care how or why they act the way they do. No
    one else is important except themselves.

    When the conscience is seared, nothing can touch it; the senses are dead. Some
    Christians don't repent from their misdeeds any longer because of a seared
    conscience. The preaching of the Word doesn't affect their spirit - they can't feel
    God moving within them.
    3. DEFILED - (Titus 1:15-16) (corrupted conscience-to be smeared with mud.)
    This verse says they profess to know God, but in reality they don't - it is unbelief.
    When we walk as Christians in unbelief of what God says, it causes our conscience
    to become defiled. If I question everything God says to me over and over; because
    of unbelief, my vision of God and who He is and what He does will be muddied
    and I will end up digging for guidance and missing with clarity what God wants to
    do in my life or this church.

    Now, this isn't always something we think about. Verse 16 says "by their actions
    they deny Christ." If your conscience is defiled, your actions, when you are in the
    world will not be pure. You can be good on Sunday, but the rest of the time you
    are a different person. But if your conscience is pure - daily, you will walk in belief
    and your actions will show forth the life of Christ.

    We have come to this place in history where God is no longer going to put up with
    the defiled conscience. You will be exposed. God did it with ministers and with
    government leaders; now He will do it with the people of God. Before the last
    great move of God, He will clean up the body and only those who truly have a
    desire with actions to follow for the Lord in purity will be used and blessed. NOT
    perfection! But a walk that is not defiled.

    4. PURE - (I Timothy 1:18-19) Free from guilt and cleansed.


    If you begin to seek God in a matter and you feel guilty inside, you will not
    be able to pray in FAITH.
    Do you ever feel this way? When you stand to pray, you will feel maybe you are
    wasting time; or "What's the use; let's just get it over." (Acts 24:16) So daily we
    need to exercise our rights in Jesus by making sure we are cleansed. Remind God
    to show you error or sin! (I heard a man on radio say that once you are saved, you
    don't have to repent for sin any more because Jesus' blood continues to cleanse you
    from all - but what about fellowship? Communion? Intuition? I need the Lord's
    guidance in my life.) Ask God daily to keep your conscience:
    Is it weak?
    Is it seared?
    Is it defiled?
    Doing this will maintain that continual fellowship.
    Here is what happens when you get a pure conscience. Right now, because we are
    human, sometimes we slip and do the wrong thing - SIN. That night we lie down
    and search our hearts; when the Holy Spirit reveals to us our mistakes for the day,
    we confess them and go to sleep.
    With a pure conscience, when we slip, immediately we hear the Holy Spirit say
    "repent", OR even better - before we slip we hear the Spirit say - "Don't," and we
    instantly obey. That's PURITY. Not just in our hearts, but also in our very
    existence in all we do.

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