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Conscience is the interaction between the mind of a Man's basic spirit (Ex 35:21,
Luke 1:47) and the mind of the flesh or carnal mind (Rom 7:17-18, 8:7, Eph 2:3,
4:17, Col 2:18) as expressed in the overall conscious mind (Rom 2:15, 7:23). It
can be weak or strong depending on the position of the basic spirit and the relative
strength of the flesh mind within the person but it is always present (1 Cor 8:7).
The basic spirit of Man understands the realities of God (Luke 1:47, Rom 1:20,
Heb 4:12) and this is allied to the fact that a man's unsaved spirit is aware of the
Law (Deut 30:14, Rom 2:14-15, 7:1) and his failure to keep it (Rom 3:10, 20).
God communicates spiritually via the basic spirit in a man and this is always closer
to God, however degenerate, than the flesh (Gen 1:31, Rom 7:18, 2 Cor 1:12).
Identity is primarily resident in the basic spirit rather than the flesh body (Rom
7:17, 20).

The mind of a non-Christian Man is also potentially open to Satan’s suggestions,
being received by the basic spirit of the man (Luke 9:55), and the conscience is
biologically orientated around the Law or the forbidden fruit which expresses itself
in a concern around works (Heb 9:14). The Holy Ghost or the basic spirit of a
Christian ‘thinks’ in the person by faith, what is not thought about via this route is
sin which means that everything the mind of the flesh thinks is sin (Rom 8:6-8,
‘carnal’, 14:23). A sin that the conscious mind does not regard as a sin is known to
be a sin by the basic spirit of the person (Rom 1:20, 3:20) which is then defiled, if
a non-Christian basic spirit (1 John 3:9), by that sin (1 Cor 8:7, Heb 4:12).

Paul is referring to Jews in Romans 2:23 and 2:27 as is made clear in Romans
2:17. Gentiles are subliminally aware of the Law via their basic spirits (Rom 2:15)
and all men are, disastrously, under it unless saved (Rom 3:19-20). This means that
attempts are made to keep elements of it (Rom 2:14, 27) in the various world-wide
customs but these efforts are futile (Rom 3:10-20).

The fall of Satan, a Cherub (Ezek 28:14-16), resulted in certain species evolving
that would not otherwise have done so, along with many other natural signs that
together signify the transitory nature of the First Creation as it struggles to become
the Second Creation (Rom 8:22). These are the unclean species (Rev 18:2) and
they represent a physical sign of the spiritual contamination which is why they are
unclean (Lev 10:10, Rev 18:2). Uncleaness is a reflection of the diseased and
contaminated physical Earth-part of creation stemming from Satan’s fall and more
specifically and additionally to his fall to Earth (Rev 12:4, 9). What are today
unclean animals may exist in the Second Heaven and Earth but will not then be
unclean (Rev 21:27).