Many people have told me in another question that they believe that their conscience is the voice of god and not their own better judgement. In that case, since our decisions are based on what our conscience tells us is best that means that people who believe that their conscience is actually god believe then that they have no free will and are merely gods puppet.
Thoughts?
2006-11-25 04:37:33 · 16 answers · asked by ChooseRealityPLEASE 6 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
And for that reason free will is a sin. If you follow your free will and don't listen to the God and the conscience you are a sinner.
Satan will get you, all you people with free will.
2006-11-25 04:44:41 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 2⤋
Well then i would say that your conscience is not always God . In some well really most situations your conscience is not God. I believe God is another small voice inside a person that many of us simply label as the conscience that guides us.
2006-11-25 05:17:03 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
No-one is born with a conscience. A conscience is formed over time. The ability of conscience to provide valid moral guidance depends entirely on how you have formed your conscience. If a particular person's conscience is synonymous with God's guidance, that is because that person has freely formed his/her conscience in accord with the will of God, and freely allowed the will of God to be their guide. Obviously, conscience is not always the voice of God, as in the case of people who can fly airplanes into buildings full of innocent people, without violating their own conscience. Also, regardless of how a person's conscience is formed, the conscience never forces anyone to act in a particular way. Anyone can choose to act contrary to conscience, so free will is never compromised, either in forming one's conscience or in responding to it.
2006-11-25 05:35:57 · answer #3 · answered by PaulCyp 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I think you are mistaking the terms "guide" and "govern."
Our conscience guides us, but our minds make up the final decision. Otherwise, how can you ever have a person who says, "I know I should do A, but I'll do B, anyway."?
If our conscience governed us, and our conscience was the voice of God (in the person of the Holy Spirit), then we would indeed be puppets. However, since we have the option of listening to the cartoon devil or the cartoon angel on our shoulders, we still retain our free will.
2006-11-25 04:45:57 · answer #4 · answered by Jay 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Your conscience is that little whisper of the relationship we had with God before the fall. It is ingrained in us, to do right. We had no knowledge of good and evil so that relationship still haunts every human, because we were made perfectly.
When you hear God and the voice of God you will know. That little whisper (your conscience) is really just a knowledge of the right thing to do.
Free will is what sets us apart from being puppets. We can choose to follow our ingrained sense of what is right (that whisper) or do what is wrong.
God speaks in different ways as well. It could be thoughts, it could be an actual audible voice, it could be a sign. Don't confuse the two.
2006-11-25 04:43:33 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋
Your conscience is the voice of God. Free will comes in because you have the choice to listen or eject what is being said.
2006-11-25 04:52:39 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
People do the wrong thing even when they know it to be wrong. It is their choice.
I went through a car wash and the money machine was not working correctly. It spit out $10 in quarters and gave me a free wash. After my car was finished being washed, I went back to the booth and gave the man the money for the wash along with the quarters the machine spit out. He looked at me like I was crazy - no one else would have done that - he said. I told him my conscience was worth far more that $10.
I had a choice - I chose to do the right thing. But it was God who told me what the right thing was.
2006-11-25 04:43:09 · answer #7 · answered by padwinlearner 5 · 1⤊ 1⤋
You are misunderstanding. Not everybody listens to thier conscience. If they did, the world would be a much better place. Our decisions are not always based on what our conscience tells us, sometimes we ignore our conscience and base our decisions on logic or feelings. That is what free will is referring to.
2006-11-25 04:42:13 · answer #8 · answered by Gypsy Girl 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
All men have a conscience that was placed there by God.
It is evidence that there is moral right and wrong.
You still have free will....
Have you received Christ as your Savior...if so you will be able to hear the voice od God directly through the Holy Spirit.
2006-11-25 04:43:29 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
God is not in my conscience or is my conscience. God is not contained in a small box. My conscience is reshaped and renewed by God.
2006-11-25 04:44:13 · answer #10 · answered by maybe 3 · 1⤊ 1⤋