There you have it: worse than the Sanhedrin that allowed the chairman to have Paul punched in the face for asserting his personal experience as to the exercise of his conscience.  The Supreme Court of the United States.  Its conservative majority is insensitive, spineless, misogynist,  homicidal and despise the poor.

Paul, looking intently at the Council, said, “Brethren, I have lived my life with a perfectly good conscience before God up to this day.” (Acts 23:1, NASB)

Paul raises the question of his conscience when his response to Christ makes the Jewish people question his commitment to Moses and the patriarchs under levitical system, showing us that the conscience can be counted upon to bring a person to see what God sees. 

Conscience

sun+eido,  συνειδω,  signifies co-seeing, and if we consider it in the process of human intellectual activity we must say that this consciousness must take place before we CONFESS, which itself also establishes the meaning of homologeo, I SAY THE SAME as God. 

In this regard we must also say that there is no way that Christ could have taken the side of Moses, merely follow the prophets, or submit to the elders and their traditions when the practice and the beliefs of his contemporaries could be shown to be askance.

A few examples of erroneous belief and practice addressed by the Lord Messiah Yeshua should give life to the priority of the conscience over the community’s interests.

Christ’s Consciousness 

Christ is not allowed by his own dignity as God to follow his contemporaries with their beliefs about the resurrection.

But regarding the resurrection of the dead, have you not read what was spoken to you by God: (Matthew 22:31, NASB)

A veil on the mind

“But to this day whenever Moses is read, a veil lies over their heart;” (2 Corinthians 3:15, NASB)


But He said to them, “Have you not read what David did when he became hungry, he and his companions,” (Matthew 12:3, NASB)


“Or have you not read in the Law, that on the Sabbath the priests in the temple break the Sabbath and are innocent?” (Matthew 12:5, NASB)

The supreme Court of the United States has no clothes, no balls, no shame, and little intelligence.  All they have prevailed to demonstrate is the defunct theory about their Israel clone delusion that is prevalent in the evangelical movement and the Vatican.  Church, mosque, or synagogue have never run any government with any lasting advance in civic society, and they never will, no matter how convincing the rhetoric or viral slogans they drum up.