Where did it come from?
"Men loved darkness rather than light because their deeds were evil," says the Bible. Guilty sinners hate God's searchlight of holiness. Like insects we shrink back under the filthy stone of our own sinfulness. Our sins make us moral cowards.
Finding God starts by admitting failure and guilt. Jesus taught that conviction of sin precedes forgiveness and escape from judgement. God, who fashioned our conscience, speaks to us through the Bible more clearly than a satellite transmits to a television set! His message is that we need His pardon and cleansing.
Conscience overcomes excuses for not believing in God. An atheiest, who rejected the Ten Commandments, turned to Christ because his conscience troubled him for having broken them. God distrubs our conscience. But guilty conscience is not enough: to be forgiven a person must turn to Jesus Christ through personal repentance and trust.
2007-03-30
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