Folks today believe whatever is convenient for them to believe. We tend to want to follow the path of least resistance. It decides the rightness or the wrongness of our actions and affections, and instantly approves of or condemns them. 8 many of the people who were accusing the woman caught in adultery left the scene of accusation, being convicted by their own consciences. The conscience has to do with a feeling of obligation concerning our actions.
Some consciences are in good shape, others in foul shape.
A person can get to the point and so violate their conscience, they do not even know right from wrong anymore. I believe when you violate your conscience, a part of it dies and is no longer truly useful. A seared conscience will cause you to make wrong decisions. There was a group called the Essenes in Jesus day who lived by the Dead Sea. It was from their community many of the Dead Sea Scrolls came.