[trebb]

In Jeremiah, God said He would, under a new covenant, "write My laws in your mind and on your heart". I read that as saying that believers in Him would have a conscience and instinctively know right from wrong...

[Vitamin A]

ModelBreaker is absolutely correct. That thing called a conscience was put there by God to inform you of man.

If these bashers of self-evident truth are correct, it takes a Ph.D. in philosophy and expertise in debate to know right from wrong, which doesn't bode well for 99.999999999% of the world's population both presently and historically.

[gitmo]

CS Lewis used this argument as evidence of God. He said that children instinctively know when something "isn't fair". If one toddler takes something that belongs to the other, the victim will cry that "that's not fair". There is an innate knowledge of right and wrong in every man. Societies that have no commonality share definitions of right and wrong. Those few societies that accept wrong behavior as right are immediately recognized as being aberrant.

[little jeremiah]

According to my understanding, God in the heart of everyone is telling us what is right and what is wrong. But those who don't want to hear that "still, small voice" do everything they can to drown it out. Therefore the yelling, the parades, the irrational and aggressive propaganda, judicial activism, and so on. They think that if they can eradicate all external evidence that they are on the wrong path they will be happy and peaceful. They will never be happy and peaceful. Their hearts won't let them.

Conscience is there in the heart of everyone. But some attempt to dull and silence it, some with pretty good success. The more we WANT to hear, the more we can. That's why if sincere people read scripture, they can understand and appreciate the meaning, because they can simulaneously experience within that "this is true". So it's revealed from the inside and the outside.