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CONSCIENCE: The Real Story of The Bible: Introduction
Hebrews 9:14: How much more shall the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered himself without spot to God,
purge your conscience from dead works to serve the living God?
The real story of the Bible can be summed up in one word: CONSCIENCE. It is the absolutely true story of how God the creator of
all things set out to create a progeny whose conscience would be perfect and absolutely good like his own. The process is
painstakingly slow; spans several ages and all of creation has waited with bated breath for the revelation of this new creation; the
new species of beings that did not exist in the universe prior to Jesus' resurrection from the dead.
• This process involves pain, even the pain of death yet it leads to eternal life.
• This process leads to absolute goodness yet it requires the knowledge of evil.
The story of the Bible is that of two opposite beings, one absolutely good and the other absolutely evil, one light and the other
darkness, one life and the other death. It is the story of the God and the Devil and that of man whose final destination would be
one or the other depending on whose conscience he would acquire. As an aside, God the creator of all things is eternal and self-
existent; the devil (Lucifer, Satan) was created by God to serve his purposes; the devil is neither self-existent nor eternal. The
first man (Adam) and the first woman (Eve) were placed by their creator God in the Garden of Eden in which these two absolutes
were symbolized by two trees: The Tree of Life which signified death for without death it served no purpose and The Tree of
the Knowledge of Good and Evil. Two absolute opposites in the garden and man was placed smack in the middle between
the two. Interestingly when first created man was neither immortal like God nor was he was mortal like the devil; he could have
lived forever but he was also capable of dying; he was not (yet) incorruptible as God is incorruptible and neither was he corrupt
like the devil. He was neither good like God nor was he evil like the devil; he had no knowledge of good and evil and therefore like
an infant he could not make moral judgments.
Without the knowledge of good and evil it is not possible to have a conscience so the first man and woman had no conscience.
This may seem strange but the fact of the matter is that it is impossible to program a conscience into any creature. Like a robot or
a computer the first man and woman were intelligent and had a great deal of empirical knowledge but had no spiritual knowledge.
Spiritual knowledge is the knowledge of good and evil; literally it is the knowledge of the two opposite spirits in the universe: God
and the devil. People generally confuse SPIRITUAL KNOWLEDGE with the knowledge of the SPIRIT WORLD; almost all cultures
have rituals and ceremonies designed to communicate with creatures from the spirit realm but just understanding that there are
other invisible dimensions in which intelligent creatures exist does not make one spiritual. A truly spiritual person has his
conscience developed and matured to fully distinguish between good and evil and such a person understands both God and the
devil.
Hebrews 5:14 ‘But strong meat belongeth to them that are of full age, even those who by reason of use have their senses
exercised to discern both good and evil.’ In this scripture, 'FULL AGE' refers to full Spiritual Maturity.
The Bible then is a history book: first of all it is the only book on Earth that records all history, past present and future. It is the
only book that has the complete history of creation; it explains God the creator; how he created all things and why he created
them. It explains life and it also explains death. It does not avoid the question of evil but explains perfectly how and why evil came
into existence. Above all it tells us the purpose for which man was created and his place in the cosmos. It describes in detail the
process by which mankind was made a creature of conscience by giving them the knowledge of good and evil. As explained
above Adam and Eve did were not creatures of conscience in the beginning but rather robot like creatures, intelligent but not
spiritual. God however did not create them to be mere robots unable to make moral choices. Only if they understood good and
evil would they be able to understand God and be truly able to love Him even as He loved them. In order to become moral they
also had to become mortal; death then was the price that needed to be paid to make them perfect spiritual beings capable of fully
understanding and loving their creator. Their conscience had to be molded, to be shaped, to be sculpted in the image of either
God or the devil. In order for man to acquire a perfect conscience a process had to be followed that was neither quick nor without
pain. The pain was not a mere minor pain like a sprained ankle or a headache but rather the ultimate form of pain, the pain of
death. This process which is summarized below is the real and true story of the Bible:
• Create man with the ability to have a conscience; to be able to differentiate between good and evil (not be a mere robot).
• Allow him to be exposed to evil and thereby acquire an evil conscience, a defiled conscience. This is why the serpent was
present in the Garden of Eden to provide man with the knowledge of evil.
• Purge man’s conscience by the shedding of the pure blood of Jesus Christ who is God in the flesh. God became flesh and
blood to provide the pure blood by which alone man’s defiled conscience could be purged. The relationship of blood to
purification is a complex one and will be addressed in a separate article.
• Man’s conscience once purged of all evil would be a perfectly good conscience just as that of God and in every sense of
the word man would become the progeny of God which angels or any other creatures of the universe are not. The purging of the
conscience is akin to an immunization program; by allowing man to be exposed to evil to acquire a defiled conscience and by then
purging him of that evil God would make man forever immune to evil.
• This process had to be a process: there are no shortcuts by which the progeny of God could be made equal in
conscience and character to himself. This is why the absolutely good God allowed evil to come into existence and allowed man to
be exposed to that evil even at the expense of man becoming a mortal. Lest man accuse God of making him a mortal, a prisoner
of death from which there is no escape; firstly man entered this state by his own choice and secondly God himself took on the
guise of mortal flesh and paid the ultimate price to free mankind from the curse of death.
The kingdom of God that is yet to come is reserved for those who like God are perfect in conscience; in other words their
conscience is absolutely good, they are incapable of evil even as God is incapable of evil. Such creatures are worthy of inheriting
God’s kingdom and of eternal life. When Jesus arose from the dead he became the first man that was perfect in conscience even
as God is perfect. This is why the Bible calls him The First Begotten; he is the first of many children of God who will be perfect,
who will be equal in conscience to God. The process is nearly complete and will be finally consummated when all those who have
placed their faith in the only begotten Son of God even at the expense of their bodily lives will be resurrected to never die again.
This script is more fantastic than any that Hollywood could script and yet like truth that is stranger than fiction it is absolutely true;
believe it or not!
The above was a brief summary of what the Bible is truly all about; you may choose to study it for yourself and if you sincerely
seek the truth you will find it. The complex subject of conscience cannot really be summarized in a few pages and this study will
grow to book length in time. I will keep adding to this invaluable topic as and when time permits.
CHAPTER 1