1Tim 4:2 A Seared Conscience

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A Seared Conscience

1Tim 4:2 speaking lies in hypocrisy, having their own conscience seared with a hot iron

One characteristic of false teachings is that they are not logically consistent, and thus if by nothing else they can be identified by their very hypocrisy. Most false teachings are so obviously so that you would think one would have to be an idiot to be deceived by them. In fact there is some truth to that in that Paul writes, "although they knew God, they did not glorify Him as God, nor were thankful, but became futile in their thoughts, and their foolish hearts were darkened." Rom 1:21 "And even as they did not like to retain God in their knowledge, God gave them over to a debased mind." Rom 1:28 The rejection of the truth has consequences to one's mind and conscience. Such people become spiritually stupid and their conscience corrupt.

The conscience being seared as with a hot iron makes it insensitive, thereby rendering it useless. Such people don't feel guilty for what they should feel guilty for. They lose the ability to distinguish right and wrong. And as the conscience is also the seat of the intuition, one's intuition is corrupted such that they lose the ability to properly infer things, or as Jesus would say, they don't have ears to hear. In this way the corruption of one's conscience renders a person spiritually stupid in that it destroys one's ability to intuit properly.

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