Morality-forming in the Age of Conscience

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MORALITY CODE

Any morality code which those of the Age of Conscience had was Man-made, when God had not yet then given his Word for this purpose. It could be said that Man drew upon that which God gave as created in his image, when they made a code. This then would make God the source of any code. Yet it is Man who by their experience, feelings and conscience, along with their reasoning abilities, would make a moral code in that age, if they made one, when God hasn't provided one in writing or speech. It was given in spirit.

What those then experienced, or learned by thought, was shared with others, as social people do. When many would come to the same conclusions, it then became an unwritten code, which they then thought all should give heed to. God should be given the glory for this code, when it came out of what he had provided - his image in Man.

God had not yet said, 'do not murder'. Yet Cain felt vengeance would be taken on him as a murderer. He knew moral failure resulted in consequences. What he said expressed the opinion that others had the same code as he. He knew it was also in others. He did not learn about vengeance from the law of God. He learnt it from the image of God.

Any code they had came out of subjective thought and by experience, because it did not come from the objective Word which Paul says didn't exist, Ro5.13.

Did Paul mean the Law wasn't forever settled in Heaven? No. He knew God's Word was eternal but not yet given on earth, as it later came to be, in stages.