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How Can I Develop A Christian Conscience? (Crucial Questions, #15) QUOTES

How Can I Develop A Christian Conscience? (Crucial Questions, #15) QUOTES

1 " The conscience is the tool that God the Holy Spirit uses to convict us, bring us to repentance, and to receive the healing of forgiveness that flows from the gospel. "

― R.C. Sproul , How Can I Develop A Christian Conscience? (Crucial Questions, #15)

2 " If we do something that we think is sin, even if we are misinformed, we are guilty of sin. "

― R.C. Sproul , How Can I Develop A Christian Conscience? (Crucial Questions, #15)

3 " For whatever does not proceed from faith is sin” (Rom. 14:23). "

― R.C. Sproul , How Can I Develop A Christian Conscience? (Crucial Questions, #15)

4 " If the conscience is misinformed, then we seek the reasons for this misinformation. Is it misinformed because the person has been negligent in studying the Word of God? God has been pleased to reveal His principles to us, and He requires that each Christian master those principles so that the conscience is informed. I may think that it’s fine to indulge in a particular activity that God absolutely prohibits, and I cannot say to God on the last day, “I didn’t know that you would be displeased with this form of behavior. My conscience didn’t accuse me, and I acted according to my conscience.” In such a case you acted according to a conscience that was ignorant of God’s Word that was available to you and that you were called to study and be diligent in your understanding thereof. "

― R.C. Sproul , How Can I Develop A Christian Conscience? (Crucial Questions, #15)

5 " It’s interesting that we can always find someone who will give an articulate and persuasive defense for the ethical legitimacy of some of the activities that God has judged to be an outrage to Him. As humans, our ability to defend ourselves from moral culpability is quite developed and nuanced. We become a culture in trouble when we begin to call evil good and good evil. To do that, we must distort the conscience, and, in essence, make man the final authority in life. All one has to do is to adjust his conscience to suit his ethic. Then we can live life with peace of mind, thinking that we are living in a state of righteousness. "

― R.C. Sproul , How Can I Develop A Christian Conscience? (Crucial Questions, #15)

6 " The English word “ethic” or “ethics” comes from the Greek word ethos. The word “morals” or “morality” comes from the word mores. The difference is that the ethos of a society or culture deals with its foundational philosophy, its concept of values, and its system of understanding how the world fits together. There is a philosophical value system that is the ethos of every culture in the world. On the other hand, mores has to do with the customs, habits, and normal forms of behavior that are found within a given culture. "

― R.C. Sproul , How Can I Develop A Christian Conscience? (Crucial Questions, #15)

7 " acusa. La conciencia es la herramienta que Dios el Espíritu Santo usa para inculparnos, llevarnos al arrepentimiento, y recibir la sanidad del perdón que fluye del evangelio. "

― R.C. Sproul , How Can I Develop A Christian Conscience? (Crucial Questions, #15)

8 " Recordemos que toda ley verdadera y justa tiene su fundamento último en el carácter de Dios y su ser eterno. "

― R.C. Sproul , How Can I Develop A Christian Conscience? (Crucial Questions, #15)

9 " The third type of legalism adds our own rules to God’s law and treats them as divine. It is the most common and deadly form of legalism. Jesus rebuked the Pharisees at this very point, saying, “You teach human traditions as if they were the word of God.” We have no right to heap up restrictions on people where He has no stated restriction. "

― R.C. Sproul , How Can I Develop A Christian Conscience? (Crucial Questions, #15)

10 " La conciencia es la herramienta que Dios el Espíritu Santo usa para inculparnos, llevarnos al arrepentimiento, y recibir la sanidad del perdón que fluye del evangelio. "

― R.C. Sproul , How Can I Develop A Christian Conscience? (Crucial Questions, #15)

11 " But where do we see evidence of this Gnostic spirit? Just consider how often you have heard people say, “The Spirit led me to do this or to do that.” We have to be very cautious here. God the Holy Spirit does lead us, but the primary meaning of the leading of the Holy Spirit is not to lead us to marry this person or that person or to lead us to Cincinnati or Chicago. The primary place to which the Spirit leads us is to holiness and obedience. Sadly, many Christians put a cloak of spirituality around their ethical decisions so as to effectively stop voices of criticism before they’re even heard. "

― R.C. Sproul , How Can I Develop A Christian Conscience? (Crucial Questions, #15)

12 " En el Nuevo Testamento vemos que la conciencia no es la autoridad ética última de la conducta humana, porque la conciencia es capaz de cambiar. Mientras que los principios de Dios no cambian, nuestra conciencia vacila y se desarrolla. "

― R.C. Sproul , How Can I Develop A Christian Conscience? (Crucial Questions, #15)

13 " Lo único que hay que hacer es reacomodar nuestra conciencia para que se ajuste a nuestra ética. "

― R.C. Sproul , How Can I Develop A Christian Conscience? (Crucial Questions, #15)