06-04-2009, 10:33 PM
(06-04-2009, 10:27 PM)INPEFESS Wrote:(06-04-2009, 10:19 PM)newschoolman Wrote:Quote:"obeying the moral law" CANNOT include practicing a false religion.
That's not correct. Even an honestly erroneous conscience is binding under pain of sin. The moral law commands that we obey it -- and failure to do so is a sin. Now, the law cannot command and forbid the same thing -- and that is why there is a correlative right to do our moral duty.
I must be mistaken. I'm not asking this sarcastically or cynically; I'm asking this seriously: how can a conscience be "erronious"? Where is this in Catholic theology? The conscience is directed by God to always seek Objective Truth. If a conscience is misled, it is the product of the rejection of grace.
Summa Theologica I-II19,5