Conscience

James M Sandbrook

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Conscience:

The ideas and feelings you have that tell you whether something you are doing is right or wrong
Each person must vote according to his or her own conscience.
The decision must be a matter of individual conscience.

Guilty Conscience (a bad feeling because you have done something wrong):

It’s hard to imagine how people live with a guilty conscience.

Clear Conscience (the knowledge that you have done nothing wrong):

We want to leave with a clear conscience, knowing we did the job right.

Struggle/Wrestle with your conscience:

After a night of wrestling with his conscience, he decided to go to the police.

Ease Someone’s Conscience:

People give a few pounds to charity in order to ease their consciences.

- Macmillan Dictionary.

Example:

The teachers of the Law and the Pharisees brought in a woman who had been caught committing adultery, and they made her stand before them all.

"Teacher," they said to Jesus, "this woman was caught in the very act of committing adultery.

In our Law Moses commanded that such a woman must be stoned to death. Now, what do you say?"

They said this to trap Jesus, so that they could accuse him. But he bent over and wrote on the ground with his finger.

As they stood there asking him questions, he straightened up and said to them, "Whichever one of you has committed no sin may throw the first stone at her."

Then he bent over again and wrote on the ground.

And they which heard it, being convicted by their own conscience, went out one by one, beginning at the eldest, even unto the last: and Jesus was left alone, and the woman standing in the midst.

He straightened up and said to her, "Where are they? Is there no one left to condemn you?"

"No one, sir," she answered. And Jesus said unto her, “Neither do I condemn you: go, and sin no more”. Don’t commit adultery anymore.

You see, they were willing to convict her yet once they realised with their own conscience of their own guilty ways they realized that they had no right to condemn her. Conscience is a person’s moral sense of right and wrong, viewed as acting as a guide to one's behaviour.

Conscience is a cognitive process that elicits emotion and rational associations based on an individual's moral philosophy or value system. - Wikipedia.

Conscience

James M Sandbrook

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