The most logical source of the conscience is God. Discuss.’ (40 marks)

The most logical source of the conscience is God. Discuss.’ (40 marks) Conscience is the voice of God - discuss The notion of conscience's matter, form and even existence has been under scrutiny by the Christian Church ever since it began. Although not referred to explicitly in the Gospels, in the letters of St. Paul conscie nce is mentioned twenty-five times in a variety of senses. An example of the manifestation of the idea of a conscience, however, can be found as far back as Job in the Old Testament - “I hold fast my righteousness and will not let it go, m y heart does not reproach any of my days” (Job 27:6). According to St. Paul, the law of God is ‘written in the hearts of gentiles'; the conscience acts in every individual, no matter what stage in life, or knowledge of existing civic laws. In Sophocles' ‘Antigone', the her oine defies her King's order in favour of a greater allegiance to an "unwritten law", and history is spattered with such examples of conflict between inner ‘moral truth' and civil obedience