This article will be studied during the week of July 13th through 19th.

Your conscience. Use Bible principles to train it.

Theme text. Each one will carry his own load. Galatians 6.5.

Song 127. The sort of person I should be.

Focus. To show how Bible principles can help us to train our conscience to be a good guide.

Paragraphs 1 and 2, question A. What gift were Adam and Eve given?

Question B. How should they have shown their appreciation for that gift?

Animals act according to instinct.

Many machines can be programmed to operate a certain way. But humans are different. We are created

with a special gift, one that true Christians treasure. That gift is free will, that is

the ability to make our own decisions and choices in life.

The Bible tells us that the first man, Adam, was made in God's image or likeness.

As intelligent creatures, both Adam and his wife Eve were given the opportunity to make their own decisions.

Jehovah did not give Adam and Eve a long list of laws. He simply told them to care for the earth,

to populate it with their children, and to respect his right to set reasonable limits on what they

were allowed to do. How should Adam and Eve have shown

appreciation to the one who gave them the gift of free will? In light of all that Jehovah had given

them, they should have been moved to obey these basic commands because of their love for him

and their desire to make him happy.

Paragraph three question,

how did Adam and Eve use their gift to free will?

As the Bible record reveals,

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