Where is conscience come from?

Answer 1

There is no one place where a conscience is formed. A person is sometimes guided by their parents to a certain extent, but when I child does not have that ,than there has to be another answer. I believe all people are born with a small sense of what is wrong. We are humans, we have an exceptional intelligence, but then again even lower animals seem to have a conscience. Unless you are a sociapath, you have some form distinction between the two. I don't believe it is the parent completely. I know how different my father is from me and what he believes and how I don't share his views.Our parents do have a profound affect on us though; but ultimately we choose in life what we want to take away from our experience as children. I myself am still a child in school and I believe I am so very different form my surroundings. It is in the heart of a person where lyes his origins of truth. No one can give you a conscience. As far as a spiritual affect on us, yes I do think God has everything to do with it. That does not mean it is competely him when we do a good deed. He is responsible for it, but now we are inbedded with his good reason.

Answer 2

As a student of the Holy Scriptures (The Bible) I look to it to answer questions that humans have searched for lifetimes.

Notice this discription of conscience:
"For whenever people of the nations that do not have law do by nature the things of the law, these people, although not having law, are a law to themselves. 15 They are the very ones who demonstrate the matter of the law to be written in their hearts, while their conscience is bearing witness with them and, between their own thoughts, they are being accused or even excused."
-Romans 2:14-15

Written in their hearts? Yes, it is God given. However, you can train your conscience for good, ie: Zac·chae´us (Matthew 19:1-10) or you can sear it like a steak on the grill so that it will not respond. ie, Judas, Jeffery Dahlmer, Hitler, etc.

Why is is that murder is against the law in every country on earth? You say it is wrong and I agree, however, when we look at it deeper we can see that God values human life at a very high level and he wants us to also.

Answer 3

Conscience is learned behavior and comes from the accepted rules & practices of a society. As a socitey evolves, what constitutes bad/good behavious may change and so will our conscience.

Human nature is one of aggression in order to survive and conscience is the only reason that keeps us from running amok because certain types of behaviour produce a negative consequence.

Answer 4

Modern day scientists in the fields of Ethology, Neuroscience and Evolutionary psychology seek to explain conscience as a function of the human brain that evolved to facilitate reciprocal altruism within societies. As such it could be instinctive (genetically determined) or learnt.

The psychologist Sigmund Freud regarded conscience as originating in the superego, which takes its cue from our parents during childhood. According to Freud, the consequence of not obeying our conscience is "guilt," which can be a factor in the development of neurosis.

Conscience can prompt different people in quite different directions, depending on their beliefs, suggesting that while the capacity for conscience is probably genetically determined, its subject matter is probably learnt, or imprinted, like language, as part of a culture. One person can feel a moral duty to go to war, another can feel a moral duty to avoid war under any circumstances.

Martha Stout, Ph.D., in her book "The Sociopath Next Door" defines conscience as the "intervening sense of responsibility [or obligation] based on emotional attachment [or connectedness]."

Answer 5

"Conscience" means "with-knowledge" and is the place of the knowledge of right and wrong. God has written on the heart of man the knowledge of moral absolutes. For example, when ever is it right to rape a woman? NEVER!!!!! How do you know this? Your conscience tells you, right? Also, it tells you it is wrong to lie, steal, commit adultery, murder ect. and that we are "right" by not doing those things. The Bible says that all have broken these laws and fall short of the glory of God. If that's true, we all deserve judgment and hell. That's why God had to demonstrate his love for us in this, that while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us. Only through repentance and faith in Jesus Christ can a man be saved from death and the torment of hell. If you died today, are you 100% certain you'd go to heaven?

I hope to see you in heaven one day!!

Answer 6

I believe that a conscience is formed by your parents. by talking to your children at all ages about what is right and wrong and how to treat people, a child learns. Some may get this thru their church, but most of it comes from home and what they hear from their parents, and even more importantly,what they see!

Answer 7

Light dispells darkness, knowledge exposes ignorance, Truth declares what to trust and what to abstain from. ...Ye shall know the truth and the truth shall set you free... Rules /Law only affect you when you have a knowledge of them. But GOD put something in all men to cause them to ask your Question and to make Inquiry. Seek him out HE will Give you TRUTH if that's what you SEEK if you want a lie to sooth your conscience HE will allow you to have that as well The real Question is WHAT do YOU really Want?

Answer 8

God made us adequate to meet our needs... we are indeed "wonderfully made." The conscience stems from the human wiring that allows us to have and develop an intellect. If unencumbered from a lot of crippling emotional "baggage," the potential of the human mind is indeed phenomenal. I offer a quote from a friend, colleague, and "man for all seasons..." His name was Robert Sidey. "As the mind sees itself as functioning, so then shall it function... this is, after all, the intellect, becoming aware of its own potentialities."
We are thus capable of considering the contextual underpinnings of a set of circumstances... a moment to moment capture of what is commonly referred to as "the gestalt." WE have been given, with that, an innate sensibility of right & wrong - the moral backdrop, that shines through in all spiritual thought.

Answer 9

I think it comes from your soul. Another question is where have peoples' consciences gone?

Answer 10

All human beings have a conscience, its an emotion that seperates us from animals, the right from wrong,it comes from your brain the decision maker.like love, hate, sadness,fear. remorse,ext.