What are thoughts and what is conscience? From whence do they come?
According to Dictionary.com one of the definitions of conscience is:
The complex of moral and ethical principles that controls or inhibits the actions or thoughts of an individual.
Quite where the line is drawn between a person's thoughts and his conscience seem to me at any rate, to be impossible to discern. Are they not one and the same thing?
A person who tries his or her best to live according to the Ten Commandments, or more specifically in the case of a Christian, Christ's moral law (Matthew 22:37-40) would (or at least should!) have their thoughts governed accordingly; so in theory they would not be capable of committing any crime. Contrariwise, it stands that a person who hasn't this internal law governing them would make up their own mind as to what was right or wrong, or good and bad. The only restraining factor in their lives would be the law of the land.
As a Christian who believes that God in Christ is the first cause, that is the Creator, then of necessity, all thoughts, consciences, call them what you will, are God given, be they good or bad.
In the case of Bezalel, Oholiab, and others, the God ordained craftsmen who were employed in the construction of the tabernacle; it was God who "put wisdom and understanding to know how to work all manner of work for the service of the sanctuary..." Exodus 36:1. Therefore all their planning, thinking, and thoughts employed in their workmanship were not their own, it was orchestrated from above. "A man can receive nothing, except it be given him from heaven." John 3:27, see also James 1:17. In the case of the Assyrian (and by extension, the future Antichrist, of which the Assyrian was a notable type), God used him as the tool to accomplish His purposes, yet it is written "Howbeit he meaneth not so, neither doth his heart think so." Isaiah 10:7, here, the thoughts were the Assyrian's, yet God was in control of them! Judas, who betrayed the Lord Jesus, likewise fulfilled God's plan down to the last letter, yet his thoughts and motives were all his own. "God is not the author of confusion" 1 Corinthians 14:33, nor of evil, yet He permits these things to happen, for He has given the world over to Satan (through man's fall), who is the author of confusion and of evil. Satan is "the god of this world" 2 Corinthians 4:4. The Lord addressed Peter as "Satan" (Matthew 16:23) because he said He wouldn't be crucified! So how much power does the devil have over the unbeliever? In one word, TOTAL!
Many an unbeliever has freely confessed when it comes to ideas (brilliant or otherwise), inventions, business plans, murders, adulteries, thefts, etc, etc, when asked how, why, or where, the thought, or idea came from, the reply is always something like "it just came out of nowhere!" or "I heard a voice in my head!" and so on.
If "The king's heart is in the hand of the LORD..." Proverbs 21:1, how much more his subjects?
Many a Christian will admit to God's omnipresence (which means He is in everyplace "beholding the evil and the good" Proverbs 15:3, yet like the unbeliever, they will believe in contagious diseases*, that is that viruses can be passed between humans by whatever means, when the true and only cause is God, for "He is upholding all things by the word of His power" Hebrews 1:3 (my emphasis). Medical science has to offer theories as to how people catch measles, influenza, colds (coranavirus is just another label) for they will never attribute the cause to God! would that not be giving Him the glory?
*Some argue from silence that leprosy is a contagious disease because of Leviticus 13:4-6 as God said the priest must isolate the leper; that is "shut him up". Yet the priest obviously had to come in very close contact with the leper to "look on him"! I wonder why the priest didn't catch it? I think I know why! When you read of the leprosy spreading in the leper, it was only spread in his own body, and only by following the God ordained method could the leprosy be stopped and would "spread not in the skin". It is plainly evident that leprosy, and by extension, all future diseases, viruses, call them what you will, cannot traverse this law, for there is essentially only one disease and that is SIN! And God has caused sin to manifest itself in various and multitudinous ways.
"Where there is not faith there is not knowledge" John Chrysostom.
Jamieson, Fausset and Brown (Bible commentators) add two words to this quote, on 1 Timothy 6:20 "science falsely so called";
TRUE KNOWLEDGE!
In a soon coming Day God "will destroy the wisdom of the wise" 1 Corinthians 1:19 ff.
I think any discerning believer would agree that the governments around the world are in league with the World Health Organisation, the International Monetary Fund, the Green Movements, global warming agenda, over population etc (all ungodly humanistic organisations) are using this mythical virus to bring about a New World Order, and in this they are succeeding, putting people where they want them; under their control. How would we know they are correctly attributing deaths to this virus? People die all the time from the flu, colds, pneumonia and what have you.
The way the elderly (coined by many as useless eaters, and a drain on the welfare state, pensions etc) have been abandoned whole-scale is simply shocking! how many pensioners up and down the length and breadth of the UK (and the rest of the world) will have died not from the non-existent virus, but the "measures" brought in to curtail it? Care homes everywhere report that multiple deaths in every home; staff too scared to go near the residents, and what of those living on their own? How many will have died at home because care workers are "self isolating" or too scared (because they believe the lie) to go near them?
This whole 'pandemic' is FEAR DRIVEN! The Bible says "fear hath torment" 1 John 4:18 (doesn't it just?)
If thou wilt diligently hearken to the voice of the LORD thy God , and wilt do that which is right in His sight, and wilt give ear to His commandments, and keep all His statutes, I will put none of these diseases upon thee, which I have brought upon the Egyptians: for I am the Lord that healeth thee. Exodus 15:26. (emphasis mine). Do we take God in Christ at His Word or no? Do we believe that it was the pre-incarnate Jesus Christ that delivered Israel across the Red sea or not,?this is the grand question, is it not? Lets not adopt the mindset of many a Christian who would tell us that these promises were only for ancient Israel.
"Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, and to day, and forever." Hebrews 13:8.
Was it for nothing that the Saviour spoke those penetrating words in Luke 18:8?
THINK ON THESE THINGS.
I can almost hear the footsteps of Antichrist-louder by the day.
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