{"id":134,"date":"2005-12-06T22:08:38","date_gmt":"2005-12-06T22:08:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bufton.net\/blog\/?p=134"},"modified":"2005-12-07T20:26:24","modified_gmt":"2005-12-07T20:26:24","slug":"the-joy-of-a-clear-conscience","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bufton.net\/blog\/2005\/12\/06\/the-joy-of-a-clear-conscience","title":{"rendered":"The joy of a clear conscience"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Isn&#8217;t it great to have a clear conscience? To have done nothing wrong, or at least have apologised for anything we have, and be reconciled&nbsp;&#8211; wonderful! But wait a minute, what&#8217;s Paul saying in 1 Corinthians?<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"http:\/\/www.bibleserver.com\/act.php?text_ref=46004000\"><p><span class=\"highlight_text\">I care very little if I am judged by you or by any human court; indeed, I do not even judge myself.<\/span> <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">My conscience is clear, but that does not make me innocent<\/span>. It is the Lord who judges me.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><cite cite=\"http:\/\/www.bibleserver.com\/act.php?text_ref=46004000\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bibleserver.com\/act.php?text_ref=46004000\">Bibleserver.com<\/a><\/cite><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;d never noticed that before, but if you think about it, it makes sense. Even in human courts, if you&#8217;re legally adult, not knowing that something is illegal is no defence. With God, simply thinking that we&#8217;re living a &#8216;good&#8217; life is no defence. He&#8217;s the lawgiver <em>and<\/em> the judge.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Isn&#8217;t it great to have a clear conscience? To have done nothing wrong, or at least have apologised for anything we have, and be reconciled&nbsp;&#8211; wonderful! But wait a minute, what&#8217;s Paul saying in 1 Corinthians? I care very little if I am judged by you or by any human court; indeed, I do not &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/bufton.net\/blog\/2005\/12\/06\/the-joy-of-a-clear-conscience\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The joy of a clear conscience&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-134","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gedanken-zur-bibel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bufton.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bufton.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bufton.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bufton.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bufton.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=134"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bufton.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bufton.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=134"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bufton.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=134"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bufton.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=134"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}