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NASB | Obadiah 1:7 "All the men allied with you Will send you forth to the border, And the men at peace with you Will deceive you and overpower you. They who eat your bread Will set an ambush for you. (There is no understanding in him.) |
AMPLIFIED 2015 | Obadiah 1:7 "All the men allied with you Shall send you on your way to the border; The men who were at peace with you Shall deceive you and overpower you; Those who eat your bread [those you trust] Shall set a hostile ambush for you. (There is no understanding of it.) |
Subject: Are mortals altogether ignorant? |
Bible Note: Indeed, the Holy Spirit often works upon the consciences of human beings, but are not people's consciences often rather skewed and unreliable for purposes of ascertaining God's moral will? People often call good evil and evil good. I suggest that our own human conscience is an insufficient barometer to judge how morally well that we're doing, apart from the active presence of the Holy Spirit in our lives (which not all have). For example, there are murderers who lack any sensation of conscience when they do wrong, due to their profusely hardened state, often originating in childhood. Still other people are overly-sensitive in conscience, and will condemn a person for having a glass of wine or wearing the wrong clothes to church. Again, we may call good evil or evil good. Are there not those who don't know enough to do good, if only due to the state of their own skewed conscience? Does not the sinner require the Law of Moses (lacking the conviction of the Holy Spirit) to restrain the sinful passions, when human conscience falls short? ---- For when Gentiles who do not have the Law do instinctively the things of the Law, these, not having the Law, are a law to themselves, in that they show the work of the Law written in their hearts, their conscience bearing witness and their thoughts alternately accusing or else defending them, (Romans 2:14-15 NAS95) Therefore, to one who knows the right thing to do and does not do it, to him it is sin. (James 4:17 NAS95) |
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