Religious Liberty and the Conscience: Biblical Stewardship
Who is Knocking at the Door? – audio
Who is Knocking at the Door? – video
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EXALTING THE NAME OF JESUS
by Steve
by Steve
The conscience of man.
This definition was gleaned from a professor who is no longer living Dr. Rembert Carter.
The conscience is said to be a mental faculty by which a person in the course of their living makes choices, actions upon choices are not necessarily according to his innate sense of right and wrong. The conscience that is tethered to the Scriptures has the best chance, the best opportunity to make right choices, because the actions are made based on right facts.
In Romans chapter 2:14, the statement is made about the Gentiles and compares them to the Jews. The Jews had the written revelation of God as their guide. Their conscience would be tethered to what they knew God required. But the Gentiles, the pagans, the barbarians had no such blessing at the point of the apostle’s writing.
So when you look at verse 14, the Word speaks of the Gentiles that have not the law, (in other words they don’t have a written objective statement of God’s purpose or intentions). It says there that they do by nature the things that are contained in the law. Well, how can that be so? How can the Gentiles, who never had read any portion of Scripture or heard any declaration of Scripture from a priest or someone like that, do things which are contained in the Law? How can they by nature do this? The simple explanation is, the sovereign God implanted in their being an innate embedded sense of right and wrong. Now if that is true, how can people who have that innate sense of right and wrong have a hard time doing which is right? Herein lies the depraved sin nature. This came by the fall of man.
Hear the whole story, “Religious Liberty and the Conscience”
by Steve
Should one be interested in understanding the reason for the LORD’s day, check out the above video. It is very instructive for those who care about Christian obedience.