Congenital analgesia is a condition where children are unable to feel pain when they have hurt themselves or if anybody else physically hurts them. The dangers of congenital analgesia is told in Steve Pete’s story: Congenital analgesia: The agony of feeling no pain—BBC News.
As a baby, when Steve began teething, he was able chew a considerable portion of his tongue before his parents had noticed that he was eating himself. Self-preservation against self-cannibalism is one of the reasons why experiencing physical pain is to each one’s advantage.
Our conscience is capable of pricking our internal faculty that records pain at the spiritual level of our existence. The spiritual level of existence is where our thoughts are produced. Thoughts are produced as words; but as sounds they are not seen when voiced. Yet when people say something that is derogatory, which is insulting or belittling to us, we can experience pain, even though we do not see the words—merely hear them.
Our conscience is the internal faculty that enables us to possess knowledge and discern right from wrong, good from evil, truth from falsehood. Essentially, without a conscience—which means joint-knowledge (HELPS Word-studies conscience)—we are not capable of thinking, because thinking requires us to distinguish between two things and possess knowledge of the differences.
If we were not able to feel pain as a consequence of our thoughts, we would not appreciate the difference between right and wrong, good and evil, falsehood and the truth.
If we have a deadened conscience, this is analogous to suffering from congenital analgesia, where one can be eaten up by moral violations, corrupt to the core, without realizing that death—a lonely eternal existence void of peace, joy and love—is consuming oneself until it is too late.
Unlike the temporary physical realm that can be seen, the unseen realm does not come to an end. Cessation of physical life for humans is not the cessation of existence; for our spirit—from where our thoughts arise and where our conscience exists—and our soul continues (compare: Luke 12:4-5).
A conscience that is alive enables us to recognize violations of righteousness and rectify our own infringements of other people’s rights. Those who have seared their conscience have lost this ability. Therefore, they will violate the rights of other people. This includes insulting their parents, who gave them birth, and the Eternal One, who created humans in His own image, in the hope that they might seek to enjoy their relationship with Him and each other.
Instead of seeing people seeking the righteousness of true love or the truth that upholds justice, we find the realm of men bedeviled by corruption, hatred, warmongering and all kinds of evil that are violations of the Ten Commandments handed down by God to remind us what it means to have a conscience.
A Sharp Conscience Enables You To Be Honest So You Can Enjoy And Possess Life
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