The Importance Of Conscience For Christians Flashcards
The meaning of consience
Christians believe that a person’s conscience is the voice of God in their heart and soul,guiding them to do what’s right
Conscience has
Two different sides
Consience is made up of natural instincts
The Church teaches that people are born with an understanding of right and wrong.
This understanding helps guide Catholics to instinctively do good and avoid evil
Consience has to be educated
Comsience needs to be shaped,developed and educated.
This means listening to others amd paying attention to Christ’s teachings.
Catholics can only do the right thing when they have enough knowledge of what’s good and what’s wrong
Catgolic church teaches that people shouldn’t ignore
What they believe God is telling them in their hearts.
What is natural law
All people now instinctively know what the right thing to do is
Listening to to others can help a person
Understand theeffects of their actions
Church’s teachings are guided by the
Holy Spirit.So these shouldn’t be ignored even if your conscience tells them otherwise