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John:Yes indeed.
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Sent: August 20, 2004 17:50
Subject: Re: [TruthTalk] Christians'
authority over nature (Romans 1.12-16)
In a message dated 8/20/2004 4:37:05 AM Pacific
Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
believe the 'conscience' is 'constructed' socially. I do not
believe that the 'conscience' of humankind is informed by
God.
Depends on how you define "conscience" or what you include
in that concept. There is an emotional trigger within each of us that
goes off when we violate our sense of right and wrong.
"Our sense of right and wrong" is what, I think, you are referring to and I
agree with this. When baseball season comes on, and I coach kids
baseball, I often wear the same hat in exactly the same way every time we have
a game. When I do not or cannot follow this pattern of activity, I
feel bad. -- just as I do when I harshly criticize by wife. That is the
socialisation of the conscience (correct?). But the trigger
is a part of our creation. And it has it's
limitations. It never goes off when we fail to do something that
is "wrong." I know it might sound silly, but a bank robbers never
wakes up feeling bad because he did not rob some bank yesterday. This
trigger only works one way -- in support of perceived goodness.
John
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