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The Living Waters Podcast

Ep. 215 - Exploring the Human Conscience

The Living Waters Podcast

Living Waters

Prolife, Witnessing, Faith, Gospel, Evangelism, Jesus, Salvation, Creation, Religion & Spirituality, Religion, Theology, Christianity, Apologetics, Spirituality

4.93K Ratings

🗓️ 23 November 2023

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Summary

Have you ever found yourself contemplating the role of your conscience in guiding moral decisions? The human conscience is a fascinating and complex aspect of cognition, and it's precisely what Ray, E.Z., Mark, and Oscar delve into in today’s podcast episode. They shed light on the complexities of the human conscience, discussing its potential to lead us astray if not appropriately directed and how faith, specifically the teachings of Christ, can cleanse and guide our conscience.  ...

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So good, Mark. That's super important because there's an important theological term that helps

0:06.0

us understand what the scriptures mean by conscience. Before I use that term, I'll give an example

0:11.2

of it, our conscience not being used well which is exactly what you're

0:14.8

alluding to in 2004 Barack Obama was asked what is sin and he said his quote was

0:22.3

I've got it written here somewhere give me a minute I'm pulling an easy

0:27.1

Being out of alignment oh how embarrassing here's what at Barack Obama said being out of alignment with my values. Do you see the problem there?

0:37.0

That's terrible. That's exactly right, but he's appealing to his conscience in that moment, but that conscience to Mark's point can be seared.

0:46.4

It could be wicked.

0:47.7

And so what does it mean that God's written as laws on our conscience?

0:50.6

It does not mean that every unbeliever has 600 plus of God's written

0:54.3

on their hearts.

0:55.3

What it means, and here's the important theological term, is that every non-believer, every single person

1:00.9

who's ever existed has sufficient knowledge.

1:05.8

They have sufficient knowledge through God's common grace to attest to his glory and

1:11.9

reject it. That's the important theological distinction.

1:14.7

Oh, that's good, Oscar. Coming from a man with no conscience.

1:17.6

No, that was really good.

1:29.0

Sweet dreams are made of this. Who am I to disagree? I travel the world in the seven seas

1:36.0

everybody's looking for something

1:40.0

to

1:41.0

depechemae

1:42.0

probably the most nostalgic song of the 1980s.

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