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Msgr. Charles Pope, Archdiocese of Washington D.C. has written several excellent articles recently on this Doctine of the Faith.
" 1.What is the Conscience and where does it come from? Does everyone have it? - For Man has in his heart a law inscribed by God, This is his conscience, there he is alone with God whose voice echoes in his depths… (Catechism of the Catholic Church(CCC) # 1776) Notice therefore that “conscience” is the innate sense of the law of God in each one of us. The conscience exists because God has written his law in everyone’s heart. His voice echoes in our soul. It is there and we cannot ultimately deny it or silence it, though many do try.
2.Scripture too affirms the fundamental presence of conscience and the Law of God within every individual. For example:
a.When the Gentiles, who do not have the law, do by nature things required by the law, they are a law for themselves, even though they do not have the law, since they show that the requirements of the law are written on their hearts, their consciences bearing witness, and their thoughts now accusing, or at times even defending them (Romans 2:14-15).
b.By the open statement of the truth we would commend ourselves to every one’s conscience in the sight of God. (2 Cor 4:2) ( Dec 3, 2012)
blog.adw.org/2009/12/rediscovering-the-conscience-we-know-what-we-are-doing/
Or again:
" In a remarkable description the story describes a threefold source from which their sins spring forth. The text says: They suppressed their consciences; they would not allow their eyes to look to heaven, and did not keep in mind just judgments. (Daniel 13:9). I’d like to take a look at each of these three sources from which sin springs.
blog.adw.org/2013/03/the-anatomy-of-a-sin-as-set-forth-in-a-lesser-known-biblical-passage/
These two articles should be read by all Catholics and refleced upon. From them we understand 1. That the existence of conscience proves the existence of a Divine Lawgiver, that is the Eternal God and Creator of Christianity.
And 2nd, it helps understand the psychological reasons why the Church is under fire so much today.
And 3rd, it shows that to run from or supress conscience leads to bad personal and societical outcomes, a society of social, moral, and intellectual disfunctionals. Linus2nd
" 1.What is the Conscience and where does it come from? Does everyone have it? - For Man has in his heart a law inscribed by God, This is his conscience, there he is alone with God whose voice echoes in his depths… (Catechism of the Catholic Church(CCC) # 1776) Notice therefore that “conscience” is the innate sense of the law of God in each one of us. The conscience exists because God has written his law in everyone’s heart. His voice echoes in our soul. It is there and we cannot ultimately deny it or silence it, though many do try.
2.Scripture too affirms the fundamental presence of conscience and the Law of God within every individual. For example:
a.When the Gentiles, who do not have the law, do by nature things required by the law, they are a law for themselves, even though they do not have the law, since they show that the requirements of the law are written on their hearts, their consciences bearing witness, and their thoughts now accusing, or at times even defending them (Romans 2:14-15).
b.By the open statement of the truth we would commend ourselves to every one’s conscience in the sight of God. (2 Cor 4:2) ( Dec 3, 2012)
blog.adw.org/2009/12/rediscovering-the-conscience-we-know-what-we-are-doing/
Or again:
" In a remarkable description the story describes a threefold source from which their sins spring forth. The text says: They suppressed their consciences; they would not allow their eyes to look to heaven, and did not keep in mind just judgments. (Daniel 13:9). I’d like to take a look at each of these three sources from which sin springs.
- They suppressed their consciences- What is the conscience? The Catechism defines it thus: For Man has in his heart a law inscribed by God, This is his conscience, there he is alone with God whose voice echoes in his depths… (Catechism of the Catholic Church (CCC) # 1776). So, in effect, the conscience is the voice of God within us. God has written his Law in the hearts of every human person.
blog.adw.org/2013/03/the-anatomy-of-a-sin-as-set-forth-in-a-lesser-known-biblical-passage/
These two articles should be read by all Catholics and refleced upon. From them we understand 1. That the existence of conscience proves the existence of a Divine Lawgiver, that is the Eternal God and Creator of Christianity.
And 2nd, it helps understand the psychological reasons why the Church is under fire so much today.
And 3rd, it shows that to run from or supress conscience leads to bad personal and societical outcomes, a society of social, moral, and intellectual disfunctionals. Linus2nd