О совести. О.Илий (2)

http://tv-soyuz.ru/ The program "About Life, About Eternity, About the Soul" on the Orthodox TV channel "Soyuz." The second conversation in the series with Schema-Archimandrite Iliy (Nozdrin). January 10, 2011 "The Lord gave us the Law, the Holy Scripture, Divine Revelation, but before that, the Lord instilled in man His Divine voice, which is called conscience. Conscience is a function of our soul, and it, of course, speaks volumes to man. When a person acts according to the moral laws that come from God, then conscience approves. On the contrary, when a person violates God's Law, acts against the Law, naturally, conscience rebukes him. But man also has a will. By will, a person sometimes transgresses this voice of conscience and acts against it. -- Conscience is given to us by God. It is innate in man, like reason. Man is given intellect, given will, and given conscience. There is another function—religious feeling in man. It combines and connects with our soul, conscience, and reason. Man seeks the meaning of his life. And, of course, man is given his upbringing from birth, which must His parents instilled it in him. Then he is educated by school. But a person is constantly in contact with ordinary life, the street, and he absorbs everything that surrounds him and educates him. And, of course, conscience is the guide here, the policeman who dictates what is good and what is bad. Again, much here depends on a person's upbringing. Much here can also depend on his ancestors, genes, the environment in which he grew up. And his actions, of course, will depend on his natural inclinations as well. If he grew up in a pious family, and his school prepared him well enough, it is clear that he does not transgress, he tries to listen to the voice of his conscience. Here, a person has stifled his conscience with passions. These are the fruits of violating our moral behavior. If a person systematically lives immorally, then when passion becomes customary, the person does not hear the voice of conscience. Then the person acts perversely, reaching the point of criminal violations. Only external punishment corrects him. If a person does good deeds, Conscience, on the contrary, approves. And if he commits a moral violation, then, of course, his conscience rebukes him. But his upbringing certainly influences whether he commits positive or negative actions. Here, of course, one must certainly take into account spiritual life, moral life. A person's life is formed by God's Providence and the actions of the person himself..." http://orthodox-newspaper.ru/numbers/... Russian Orthodox Church. Moscow Patriarchate. Gospel, Bible, interpretation, Orthodoxy, Christianity, faith, religion, God, Lord Jesus Christ, Union, sermon, Church, death, love, life, Elijah, Optina, Optina Elder