He who eats of what the CC teaches eats not of faith .
the same applies for the jw and many others . We better know this well .
WE DON'T EAT FAITH BUT BY FAITH WE EAT THE WORDS THE LORD HAS FOR US!!! AND THAT BY FAITH!!
But do we???
If I believe in Jesus Christ, then I actually ask Him for understanding, or perhaps a person doesn't want understanding?? Or maybe they don't believe the Lord can or will give them understanding, and perhaps that is where their faith in Him is at?
People - our faith is not in our faith!!!
So who we need to know well, is Jesus Christ, and one of His name is Understanding - because as the Word of God He has the words of God which can give you understanding!! So we have understanding, but that in the form of the person of Jesus Christ!! Thus we hear by faith - that believe that Jesus Christ is there with us to ask and hear from!!
So one person writes: "This why we are not to defile our own conscience, by doing something that we do not believe from the heart freely." Well - we need to do what the King of kings and Lord or lords tells us even if it seem to be against our own conscience. We are following Him not our conscience!! However, if our conscience does not understand, the we should get understanding from the King of king!! How do we not know this??
And then a person writes "WE BETTER KNOW OUR BIBLES WELL ." as opposed to knowing the Lord Jesus Christ well, shows that he is not asking Jesus Christ for understanding either!!
So neither person believes in Jesus Christ!!!
Walking with the Lord one day He told me "Karl, there are two mistake a person can make. One is to not believe the Bible, and the other is to not believe the Bible is right!"
The above is a great example of what He was telling me. There is a person who doesn't believe the Bible so they just look to their own conscience for understanding. Then the other person does not believe the Bible is actually right in telling us to seek Jesus Christ by faith, so they will put aside their conscience for understanding but not their own mind for understanding! They don't seek the mind of Christ like the Bible explains but lean on their own understanding of the Bible instead of Lord's voice for understanding the Bible!!
I am the good shepherd: the good shepherd giveth his life for the sheep.
And a stranger will they not follow, but will flee from him: for they know not the voice of strangers.
You also read that He lead us by His voice, right?
Not our conscience but His voice!! They are not the same thing!!
We have OUR conscience, and we should also have OUR Lord Jesus Christ!!
Your conscience is not His voice!! It is your conscience and our faith is in Him, Jesus Christ!! And it is written that His thoughts are not our thoughts!!
You should talk to Him about this, I did.
He explained it to me something like this:
People have a conscience that we get from our society (the people we encounter) while we grow up. It helps us decide what is right and wrong in our society! For example: if you drive in some place people drive on the left side of the road, while in other place people drive on the right side. You conscience will tend to make you feel uncomfortable if you go to the other side of the road and your mind has to override your conscience in that situation. Now the Lord may tell you to stop going down that road when you don't understand why!! Even the ass the Balaam
Num 22:23 And the ass saw the angel of the LORD standing in the way, and his sword drawn in his hand: and the ass turned aside out of the way, and went into the field: and Balaam smote the ass, to turn her into the way.
If we read about Balaam, he had a conscience. Balaam had explained to Balak that he would not do say something other than what the Lord wanted. That was Balaam's conscience speaking. Still Balaam was heading down that road because he didn't pay attention to the voice of the Lord!! Do even an ass that pays attention to the Angel (Spirit) of the Lord on the road is better at doing the right thing than the man following his own conscience instead of the voice of the Lord!!