J. Crowley

Nov 11, 2024 | theaquilareport.com | J. Crowley |Andrew Naselli

You can damage the gift of conscience, just as you can damage other gifts from God. Oddly enough, you can damage it in two opposite ways: by making it insensitive and by making it oversensitive. We make conscience insensitive by developing a habit of ignoring its voice of warning so that the voice gets weaker and weaker and finally disappears. Paul calls this “searing” the conscience: “Such teachings come through hypocritical liars, whose consciences have been seared as with a hot iron” (1 Tim.

Nov 2, 2024 | crossway.org | Andrew Naselli |J. Crowley |Wayne Grudem

This article is part of the 10 Things You Should Know series. A Shoulder Angel? Most people probably think of the conscience as the “shoulder angel.” Comic strips and films often depict an angel dressed in white on a person’s right shoulder and a demon dressed in red and holding a pitchfork on the person’s left shoulder. The angel represents the person’s conscience, and the demon represents temptation.