{"id":4676,"date":"2018-04-15T12:59:10","date_gmt":"2018-04-15T16:59:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/?p=4676"},"modified":"2018-04-09T21:00:15","modified_gmt":"2018-04-10T01:00:15","slug":"elder-ephraim-of-arizona-on-the-conscienc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/?p=4676","title":{"rendered":"Elder Ephraim of Arizona on the Conscienc"},"content":{"rendered":"<div data-contents=\"true\">\n<div class=\"\" data-block=\"true\" data-editor=\"5dmiq\" data-offset-key=\"75npi-0-0\">\n<div class=\"_1mf _1mj\" data-offset-key=\"75npi-0-0\">\u201cHow many times has our conscience reproved us! The more a person listens to his conscience, and the more he attends to it, the more precisely it guides him. And the more discreetly it guides and reproves him, the more he ascends in purity. There is also the so-called \u201cevil conscience,\u201d which often comes with the pretense and shape and form of the good conscience, yet in essence it is the evil, perverted conscience, the conscience which is opposed to God. The evil conscience is that voice which teaches things deceitful, perverted, and contrary. The good conscience has humility and obedience as its starting point, source, and foundation. The evil conscience has pride and disobedience as its source\u2026Humble-mindedness gives birth to the good conscience. Since the two consciences are entangled, one often asks himself, \u201cIs this the evil conscience or the good one? Should I believe this thought or that one?\u201d So to learn\u2014or rather to be taught\u2014what is the good conscience, one needs to have humility; but above all, he needs to place himself under the guidance of another\u2026&#8221;<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"\" data-block=\"true\" data-editor=\"5dmiq\" data-offset-key=\"699kh-0-0\">\n<div class=\"_1mf _1mj\" data-offset-key=\"699kh-0-0\"><span data-offset-key=\"699kh-0-0\">&#8211; \u2018Counsels from the Holy Mountain\u2019<\/span><\/div>\n<div data-offset-key=\"699kh-0-0\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-4677\" src=\"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/SkullofStSilouanStPantelieimonMonastery-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/SkullofStSilouanStPantelieimonMonastery-225x300.jpg 225w, http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/SkullofStSilouanStPantelieimonMonastery-768x1024.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cHow many times has our conscience reproved us! The more a person listens to his conscience, and the more he attends to it, the more precisely it guides him. And [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4676","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-modern-orthodox-elders","has_thumb"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4676","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4676"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4676\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4678,"href":"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4676\/revisions\/4678"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4676"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4676"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4676"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}