It all started in the Garden (see Gen. 3) where Adam and Eve developed their own conscience, a little voice in their head that told them, for example, that they were naked. Conscience is really the self talking to the self, as opposed to listening to God and doing the will of God.
Adam and Eve knew the will of God until they decided they wanted to be like God - knowing good from evil - and ever since, the conscience has really been an unreliable source for doing the will of God.
Conscience really drives us from God, for in knowing good and evil we find ourselves unable to stand in the grace of God (I borrowed this from Bonhoeffer). Conscience is too undependable. Take Germany under Hitler, for example. The voice of Hitler became the conscience for the German people.
Conscience has too many forces acting on it. It muddles the will of God.
No, I think Christians need only the will of God in their lives. Stop listening so much to your conscience and instead listen to God’s will as revealed through Jesus in the Scriptures.
Yours in Christ,
George
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