Our conscience helps us to see what is right and what is wrong. Conscience does not change our behavior, we have free will to choose right or wrong.Some people say our consciences have an effect on changing our behavior.All of us believe we have a conscience.But if we have consciences how is it possible that man can do evil without changing?the nazis I believe our a good example.Million were starved,killed, and tortured and thousand aided and abetted this behavior.If our consciences are able to change our behavior what good is it?
I like your answer.And this is my opinion only that its appears from what Ive read and experienced in my own life from watching others that a conscience can be very dead(or in otherwords a person can be very bad even at an early age depending on his enviorment).We are made as such that we pick up on our parent’s behavior and attitudes from our very first moments of our birth.We know nothing but what we see and hear.Our conscience is neutral at this pt.For a child to be a little brat he feels no guilt but is only drawing on his enviorment at home.What causes a person to change his behavior later in life?We knnow that many don’t change at all but continue and only gets worse.I may use Hitler as an example.Is it possible that they never hear this little voice of conscience?Is it possible that they can live a full life and never recognized God in the world?The conscience doesn’t change our behavior. The conscience is the little voice in your head that says “listen… that was wrong…” or “do this… it’s the right thing to do…”
Why can man do evil? The conscience can be ignored and reasoned with.
valentinoSome people say our consciences have an effect on changing our behavior.All of us believe we have a conscience.But if we have consciences how is it possible that man can do evil without changing?the nazis I believe our a good example.Million were starved,killed, and tortured and thousand aided and abetted this behavior.If our consciences are able to change our behavior what good is it?
its a good response in my view however let me point to someone whom we’re all familiar and try to help my understanding.you say that we cannot escape the desire for the fullfillment which is in our heart.I refer to hitler as my example.the desire in his heart seemed to be recognized as the world leader and the greatest human being on earth.now common sense leads us to believe that he didn’t believe in Jesus as savior.im not judging mind you just questioning my logic in my understanding of the man.Is it possible for such a man not to turn to Jesus because he doesn’t know enough about Him or he has been given so much false information that he doesn’t give God much of a thought.In otherwords can such a character not make a choice whether to accept Jesus or not ?If you don’t accept Jesus how can your conscience proof you of good or evil?Hitler believed the Jews were evil.Not himself or the German people.valentino
There maybe conscience of what is good, there maybe conscience of what is evil, but it is the what is in the heart that men seek to be fulfilled. And no man can escape the desire for the fulfillment of what is in his heart. Hence God changes what is in one’s heart to what is in God’s Heart. And that is what changes the man’s desire and changes what he hopes the in fulfillment of. Of which the conscience follows.
valentinoits a good response in my view however let me point to someone whom we’re all familiar and try to help my understanding.you say that we cannot escape the desire for the fullfillment which is in our heart.I refer to hitler as my example.the desire in his heart seemed to be recognized as the world leader and the greatest human being on earth.now common sense leads us to believe that he didn’t believe in Jesus as savior.im not judging mind you just questioning my logic in my understanding of the man.Is it possible for such a man not to turn to Jesus because he doesn’t know enough about Him or he has been given so much false information that he doesn’t give God much of a thought.In otherwords can such a character not make a choice whether to accept Jesus or not ?If you don’t accept Jesus how can your conscience proof you of good or evil?Hitler believed the Jews were evil.Not himself or the German people.
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Thanks for your answer.I believe its true to say that man does override his conscience.He knows for certain when he is not doing something that he should.he just doesn’t see the outcomes of his bad choice.But as he continues on eventually he sees his terrible mistakes or he or refuses to change and the situation only gets worse.IMO there is a built in laziness in man and he doesn’t like responsibllity.He wants to enjoy life on his terms.Your answers were insightful.The problem is that we can override our consciences. And we live in a world where “overridden consciences”, with all the prejudices and biases that implies, are handed down to us or passed onto us by ancestry, peers, various authorities, etc. This is possible because God is not the god of man in this world since man was exiled-or exiled himself-from the garden, from Gods presence, from Gods authority.
From then on scripture tells us that sin abounded and multiplied because man became the determiner of his own conscience, of his own morality. Man was his own god, IOW, but, not being up to the task, this meant that man could only lose, not gain; he’d become less than who he was rather than the greater being he was aspiring to be. Because now disorder had entered mans world-and this disorder consisted in the unnatural situation-the injustice -of man no longer even believing in God, let alone having hope in Him, let alone loving Him in an intimate relationship where God’s will would reign supreme within man. Man was now divided, not only with God but with *himself-*with his very own nature, his very own conscience. And this is the lot we find ourselves in in this world-it’s a condition sometimes known as “lost”.