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R L Dabney

As disconnected specimens, the reader may, by anticipation, take the following: 'Notes on Genesis," page 39, pervert the "words that Adam and Eve knew good and evil after they transgressed, as teaching that then only they acquired a conscience! The argument is, that they could not have had a judgment of the moral distinction until they had experience of both kinds of acts. How, then, can God have a conscience? Or, if it be said he is omniscient, have the elect angels a conscience? Again, the Scripture tells us that "God made man upright, and he sought out many inventions." A curious uprightness this, without a conscience!
Theology of the Plymouth Brethren, 172 (In Discussions, Vol 1)