CULTS;
CONSCIENCE; SIN: SEARED CONSCIENCE

We wonder how it is that a person who has been brought up in the Word of truth suddenly can turn away from it into some false religion. You may say, “He or she became confused.” No. False doctrine can have no power upon a good conscience. But when a conscience has been seared, when a person has played with fire and burned his or her conscience, searing it until he or she can handle the hot iron of sin without cringing, then there is no longer any safety for that person. The man or woman can go off into strange cults, into heresy, into any one of the false religions.

Why is it that people reared in Sunday school, who learned the Ten Commandments, knew the Sermon on the Mount and could recite the story of Christ’s birth and crucifixion and resurrection will turn to one of the many false cults rampant in our land? The answer is that they fooled with the inner voice and would not listen to the sound of the preacher within them. God turned from them and let them go. With a seared conscience they wandered into the arms of a false religion.

Romans 1:18–32; Galatians 1:6–7; 1 Timothy 4:1–2

Faith Beyond Reason, 79.