Here's my theory and argument. When Adam and Eve picked the fruit from the tree of knowledge (good and evil) that was essentially their conscience. The voice of God in our hearts. So when we do whats wrong for God, our conscience twitches and makes us feel uneasy and not right, but when we do something that's pleasing to God, for example helping an old lady across the street, we get a warm and wholesome feeling and glow that can last for days, unlike the almost unholy glee that only lasts for a short time when we do something bad. So can we tune out this conscience? Absolutely, but never all the way. When we listen and obey this conscience our "line to God" gets stronger and clearer, but if we choose to override it and it can get fainter and fainter. So why do I believe this? I believe in a loving and compassionate God, one who doesn't want to see one of his creations in hell and will give them every chance, if they so choose to follow him and not their free will. So I believe he "hard wired" each and everyone of us with a "fail-safe" (called our conscience) so that even if we get born in Africa in the bush, and have never heard the word of God that if we only listen to our conscience, we will know right from wrong.
So my questions to you are: Is our conscience from God? Is it a product of our environment? Or is it something we get after we are born again?
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