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In Reply to: I disagree. We MUST trust our heart, our gut instincts posted by Donny on September 28, 2002 at 21:57:50:
There is something spiritual about our conscience. Not even scientist can explain where that comes from or how it happens. The closest to a consensus on that is that as we grow up we form a set of values as individuals which become ingrained into our subconscience and resurfaces as "intuition" (that is the word often used to explain that "gut feeling"). Other people think that it is somehow associated with genetic predisposition which come from tendencies acquired by the human race during their survival mode in the early days.
Being a believer I don't buy neither explanation because I use an additional feature, spirituality. Conscience exists in some but didn't and doesn't exist in people who simply developed an appetite for the perverted, unnatural and even diabolical. How do those pervarsions start when the light shines upon all men (as explained in John 1)? That may be due to a choice we make, the result of many choices to stay in the dark, I really don't know. I suspect salvation is something deeper and more wonderful than what we normally hear and related to this issue of conscience and "knowing" one's heart.
What I know is that evil is real and the dominion of evil in its many forms upon man is also real and that we must, individualy, learn to take care of our own heart to prevent that dominion and listening to our heart, our gut feeling and our conscience is pretty much the same thing and the way we have to help us in our daily walk. The idea that we need somebody else to tell us what to do, what to believe, etc. is what prevails in many control groups in society but on the other hand, consience must have a good foundation in the Word or in God's goodness. This can be read in as early as in Deuteronomy 10 and 11 where there are many admonitions about taking care of our heart.
As a bonus, Deuteronomy Chapter 13 answers very specifically the issue of whether David Berg, Maria and some of the others being true or a false prophets. It even says what to do with such prophets. They are lucky to be in the New Testament era where we don't stone people anymore.
