Don't allow your conscience to be swayed into accepting something as right which appears to it as wrong. Say that the thing is either not what it seems, or that God never said or did it. To misinterpret what God does, and then say that it must be good because God did it, is evil. Do not try to believe anything that your conscience tells you is wrong. Even if you end up making a mistake, and rejecting something that turns out to be true, you will have done less wrong to Christ with such a rejection than you would have by accepting something as right that you can only see as wrong.
- Based on a quote by George MacDonald
I'm pretty sure that this quote was directed at a reader who accepted Christ and God as utlimately good. I think that this principle can be effective though even for those that don't. The base priciple appears to me to be 'don't go against your conscience.' If you believe, as I do, that it was put there for a reason, then you have to follow it. If you have something in you telling you that something is wrong, then follow it...follow honesty. I believe our consciences, if cared for and attended to, if listened to more often than ignored, will lead us to the truth more often than not.
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