This study pertains to the Bible heart (man cannot ponder)

Intellect Emotions

Conscience

The will

QUESTIONS & DOUBTS??

What is meant by CONSCIENCE?-Related to Brain or Heart??????
Do you have to follow your conscience ALWAYS when you act?" Does your conscience always gives you the RIGHT ADVISE ? Is there a BAD or a GOOD CONSCIENCE? IS YOUR CONSCIENCE BAD OR GOOD?
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What is meant by conscience???

THINKING ???? HOW???

The Indo-Europeans used mind as the seat of thinking, the Egyptians, Semites and other people in what is now the Near East imagined Heart to be the seat of thinking. With the Semitic religions - Judaism, Christianity, Islam and now Baha'ism dominating the world for the last 1700 years, the word HEART, used approximately 300 times in the Bible means "Intellect, Mind. In the Avesta and Vedic Sanskrit, it stands for MIND, intellect, intelligence, understanding, perception, sense, conscience, will; in fact, all the mental powers

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What is meant by conscience???

GREEK WORD- SUNEIDESIS ----Literally ---A knowing with

Co-knowledge

Does the BIBLE makes a clear distinction between HEART and CONSCIENCE?

What is meant by conscience???

Ro 2:15 (13-15) Which shew the work of the law written in their hearts, their conscience also bearing witness, and their thoughts the mean while accusing or else excusing one another Heart-Inner Being-tend to recognize the innermost being morality and rightness of certain acts Conscience-Also witnesses as you think about choices and actions Tit 1:15

Unto the pure all things are pure: but unto them that are defiled and unbelieving is nothing pure; but even their mind and conscience is defiled
Conscience functions according to values (thoughts, attitudes, words and deeds)
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ROLE OF CONSCIENCE IN BIBLE

EXAMPLES IN BIBLE-CONSCIENCE ROLE

The first incidence of the consequences of human conscience occurred when Adam and Eve ran and hid from The Lord after they knew that they had done wrong. Ironically, they only became capable of knowing wrong because they had done wrong. (OLD TESTAMENT) "And The Lord God said, Behold, the man is become as one of us, to know good and evil" (Genesis 3:22 KJV) (John 8:7-9 KJV)-NEW TESTAMENT

TYPES OF CONSCIENCE ACCORDING TO BIBLE

I. The Conscience Before Trusting Christ The Bible teaches that God has placed basic principles of His Law in every person's conscience (Romans 2:14,15, ). This operates whether or not the person ever reads the Bible or even has been told anything about God. I TIMOTHY 4:2

However, by the constant ignoring of that conscience, the internal voice can be dulled to the point that when evil is done the conscience responds very little or not at all. A conscience in this condition is referred to as a "seared conscience

TYPES OF CONSCIENCE ACCORDING TO BIBLE

II. The Conscience after Trusting Christ

A. The Weak Conscience I Corinthians 8:1-13 (7 verse) B. A Defiled Conscience I Corinthians 8:7; Titus 1:15 C. Pure Conscience

II Timothy 1:3, I Timothy 1:5, Acts 24:16

The Bible talks about a "good conscience" (1 Timothy 1:5), and a "clear conscience" (1 Timothy 3:9), but it also talks about a "weak conscience" (1 Corinthians 8:12), a "seared" conscience (1 Timothy 4:2), a "corrupted" conscience (Titus 1:15) and "an evil conscience" (Hebrews 10:22).

ROLE OF CONSCIENCE IN BIBLE

III. The Effects Of A Defiled (Guilty) Conscience

(I John 3:21,22, Psalm 32:1-5)

(I Peter 3:16, I Peter 2:12).

(I Timothy 1:18,19)

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ROLE OF CONSCIENCE IN BIBLE

IV. Maintaining A Pure Conscience

Acts 24:16 I John 1:9

WARNING: The Bible and NOT our conscience is the final guide for living life God's way. (I Corinthians 4:3,4) tells us that it is possible for our conscience to indicate to us that nothing is wrong and still there is. Remember that our conscience is limited by the knowledge of the Bible we possess. Therefore, the Bible is our final guide not only how we might feel about a matter. Our conscience can be desensitised if we fail to listen to it, even to the extent that we become morally blind, stumbling around in moral darkness as John puts it (1 John 2:11).

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