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Conscience

I Corinthians ch. 15 (KJV)
21: For since by man came death, by man came also the resurrection of the dead.

22: For as in Adam all die, even so in Christ shall all be made alive.


By the fall, Adam and Eve acquired and transmitted to the race the knowledge of good and evil. This gave conscience a basis for right moral judgment, and hence the race came under this measure of responsibility - to do good and eschew evil. The result of the dispensation of conscience, from Eden to the flood (while there was no institution of government and of law), was that "all flesh had corrupted his way on the earth," that "the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually," and God closed the second testing of the natural man with judgment: the flood.

Genesis ch. 6 (KJV)
5: And God saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually.

6: And it repented the LORD that he had made man on the earth, and it grieved him at His heart.

7: And the LORD said, I will destroy man whom I have created from the face of the earth; both man, and beast, and the creeping thing, and the fowls of the air; for it repenteth me that I have made them.

8: But Noah found grace in the eyes of the LORD.

9: These are the generations of Noah: Noah was a just man and perfect in his generations, and Noah walked with God.

10: And Noah begat three sons, Shem, Ham, and Japheth.

11: The earth also was corrupt before God, and the earth was filled with violence.