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The Role of Conscience as a guide in Making Moral Decisions
- Why Christians think they should always follow their Conscience
- Christians believe that God
speaks to us like a little voice in
our heads
- They believe god is telling them what they should or
shouldn't do.One of the people that believed this was
Cardinal Newman, he believed that our conscience was God
giving us moral direction and that the conscience detects
the truth but in the end it is individual that decides what
God is guiding them towards.
- They believe god is telling them what they should or
shouldn't do.One of the people that believed this was
Cardinal Newman, he believed that our conscience was God
giving us moral direction and that the conscience detects
the truth but in the end it is individual that decides what
God is guiding them towards.
- The church believe Christians should follow
their conscience as if it is the voice of God.
- Christians are expected to follow the teachings of the
Church and the Catechism of the Catholic Church states
that anyone who does not follow there conscience is
condemning themselves
- Christians are expected to follow the teachings of the
Church and the Catechism of the Catholic Church states
that anyone who does not follow there conscience is
condemning themselves
- St Paul and St Thomas Aquinas taught Christians to use there conscience as
the final part of decision making
- They also added this to the reason the power to think and make judgments this is when
we have to decide whether something is good or bad
- They also added this to the reason the power to think and make judgments this is when
we have to decide whether something is good or bad
- The teachings of the Bible and the Church do
not come directly from God.
- The Bible has been translated and the teachings of the Church have
come from the Pope, ministers, bishops etc. Unlike your conscience
which is God speaking directly to you and should therefore be
followed.
- The Bible has been translated and the teachings of the Church have
come from the Pope, ministers, bishops etc. Unlike your conscience
which is God speaking directly to you and should therefore be
followed.
- Christians believe that God
speaks to us like a little voice in
our heads
- Why some Christians think they should not follow their conscience
- You can be mistaken by the voice of God, so you can be mistaken by your conscience
- An example of being mistaken by the Voice of God wad the
Yorkshire Ripper, he killed prostitutes because he claimed the voice
of God told him to.
- An example of being mistaken by the Voice of God wad the
Yorkshire Ripper, he killed prostitutes because he claimed the voice
of God told him to.
- Christians should follow the teachings of the Bible
- If you follw the teachings of the Bible you are
what all other Chrstians think is the Christian
thing to do
- If you follw the teachings of the Bible you are
what all other Chrstians think is the Christian
thing to do
- Christians should follow the teachings of the Church
- if you are following the teachings of the church you are also doing
what others think is right
- if you are following the teachings of the church you are also doing
what others think is right
- If everyone follwed there
conscience the world would be
chaotic
- if everyone follwed their conscience it would be
chaotic because the world needs set rules and laws
to stay in order, this is why we need the teaching of
the Church and Bible
- if everyone follwed their conscience it would be
chaotic because the world needs set rules and laws
to stay in order, this is why we need the teaching of
the Church and Bible
- You can be mistaken by the voice of God, so you can be mistaken by your conscience
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