I have met people from different backgrounds and culture. They all refer to their conscience as the guiding light for their behaviour, some kind of a personal police and chaperone that keeps them in check. However, I have some doubts about trusting the conscience.

The conscience seems to be highly vulnerable to one's education and cultural upbringing. For instance, a woman in Saudi Arabia might be self-flogged by her conscience for driving a car because that's what has been drilled into her ears since birth, that it is illegal for a woman to drive. While another muslim woman in Nigeria may have no such internal wranglings about driving.

Is conscience at all to be trusted? Or, is it no more than a perfect reflector of one's education and ignorance?

What do you say, how far would you trust your own conscience?

I look at mine as a being of it's own, it is very intelligent, top notch senses, but me personally kinda lazy, so we do go rough on each other sometimes, which never ends well for my body especially my chest and my back..!

I think it's more of Environmental Factors

Deicide:
I think it's more of Environmental Factors

Spot on!
Many Christians feel guilty just for drinking beer/alcohol in Nigeria, while they drink all such in the West without their conscience pricking them. I totally agree that it's environment. Which leads one to the inevitable conclusion, that the conscience cannot be the voice of God.

poyebad:


Spot on!
Many Christians feel guilty just for drinking beer/alcohol in Nigeria, while they drink all such in the West without their conscience pricking them. I totally agree that it's environment. Which leads one to the inevitable conclusion, that the conscience cannot be the voice of God

Wait who said the conscience was the voice of God?

Many Christians feel guilty just for drinking beer/alcohol in Nigeria, while they drink all such in the West without their conscience pricking them. I totally agree that it's environment. Which leads one to the inevitable conclusion, that the conscience cannot be the voice of God.

God can speak to us through our conscience - our mind.

Php_2:5  Let this mind be in you, which was also in Christ Jesus:

Rom 8:16  The Spirit itself beareth witness with our spirit, that we are the children of God:

Spirit and mind are similar and connected,
Christians pray to God in the quiteness of their mind, and hear from God in the same way,
not out loud, but in thought.

poyebad:
■ I have met people from different backgrounds and culture. They all refer to their conscience as the guiding light for their behaviour, some kind of a personal police and chaperone that keeps them in check. However, I have some doubts about trusting the conscience. The conscience seems to be highly vulnerable to one's education and cultural upbringing. For instance, a woman in Saudi Arabia might be self-flogged by her conscience for driving a car because that's what has been drilled into her ears since birth, that it is illegal for a woman to drive. While another muslim woman in Nigeria may have no such internal wranglings about driving. Is conscience at all to be trusted? Or, is it no more than a perfect reflector of one's education and ignorance? What do you say, how far would you trust your own conscience?

The conscience isn't meant to be trusted. It can serve as a guide of sorts but the guidance it gives is based on information that has been fed into the mind by the one whose mind it is.