Conflict of Conscience vs Scripture

[Robban]

But the clear answer doesn't apply to other similar questions - such is the problem with fundamentalism.

For instance, if you take the 5th commandment, with it's murder/kill dichotomy, and apply it to capital punishment, it no longer works there... Because in the old days, they didn't have jails, and killing people was the only method they knew for how to handle serious criminals. Today, we no longer need to put people to death in order to protect people from murderers, so there's really no need to kill at all in regards to the governing laws. Unlike war.

...This is also why the fundamentalist is incorrect when he says witches can and should be put to death. Even if the scriptures say so, it is still immoral, because there are other ways to handle things now outside of basic execution.

Things cannot always be clear, unfortunately. And they won't be. And that's why we have a conscience to think with.

If you do His will only when it makes sense,

What has it to do with Him?

You are doing your own will.


Did Adam and Eve have a conscience?


Conscience is something you get from your upp bringing.


Often forgotten, when violating it and not struck by lightning, soon becomes numb.

 

[Landon Caeli]

Did Adam and Eve have a conscience?


Conscience is something you get from your upp bringing.


Often forgotten, when violating it and not struck by lightning, soon becomes numb.

If the conscience is an Eternal Law, as described by the doctors of the Church (Doctor Angelicus, and the Doctor Communis), then not only did Adam and Eve have a conscience, but also G-D and the Angels also have a conscience. In which case, the conscience has always existed, and always will exist, just as we are made in G-d's image.

In the next life, we will have no use for the scriptures at all. It will be *only* conscience, where our conscience will reflect His conscience.

 

[Landon Caeli]

If you do His will only when it makes sense,

What has it to do with Him?

You are doing your own will.

What is His will though?

Is it *only* what is found in the scriptures, or is it possibly more complex? Is there not a possibility that it takes using both conscience and scriptures to even get close?

 

[Robban]

If the conscience is an Eternal Law, as described by the doctors of the Church (Doctor Angelicus, and the Doctor Communis), then not only did Adam and Eve have a conscience, but also G-D and the Angels also have a conscience. In which case, the conscience has always existed, and always will exist, just as we are made in G-d's image.

In the next life, we will have no use for the scriptures at all. It will be *only* conscience, where our conscience will reflect His conscience.

Whatever floats your boat.

 

[Landon Caeli]

Whatever floats your boat.

It's so much more than that.

 

[Stephen3141]

You use the word "conscience". what do you mean by this?