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NASB | Romans 2:15 in that they show the work of the Law written in their hearts, their conscience bearing witness and their thoughts alternately accusing or else defending them, |
AMPLIFIED 2015 | Romans 2:15 They show that the essential requirements of the Law are written in their hearts; and their conscience [their sense of right and wrong, their moral choices] bearing witness and their thoughts alternately accusing or perhaps defending them |
Subject: Is masturbation wrong? |
Bible Note: I agree, but how does our conscience fit into this? Why the gulity conscience after performing such an act. Is our conscience God given? Is God using our conscience to let us know right from wrong? Doesn't a man's own conscience pass sentence on his conduct? I found the following concerning the conscience at ISBE "Another question of great interest about the conscience is, whether it involves an intuition of God. When it is suffering the pain of remorse, who is it that inflicts the punishment? Is it only the conscience itself? Or is man, in such experiences aware of the existence of a Being outside of and above himself? When the will is about to act, it receives the command to choose the right and refuse the wrong; but who issues this command? Is it only itself, or does the imperative come with a sanction and solemnity betokening a higher origin?" I think Paul would have agreed: Acts 24:16 Herein I also exercise myself to have a conscience void of offence toward God and men always. |