18. 1 Timothy 1:19. “. . . holding faith and a good conscience. By rejecting this, some have made shipwreck of their faith.” Timothy must never let go of his trust in God and must always live according to his moral consciousness. Some have failed to do this and have destroyed their lives. John Calvin concludes, “A bad conscience is, therefore, the mother of all heresies.”2 There is a connection between a bad conscience and apostasy; objections to Christianity are fundamentally moral, not intellectual (cf. John 3:19
