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New Testament writers also point to the doctrine of conscience as the inner norm for “what is good and sinful” for pagans, who have no Law (Rom 2:12-15).
[Just as the contextualization of actions through lawessential trains one’s dispositions, the contextualization of actions through the Law (thinkdivine) trains one’s conscience to be free.
The pagans had no Law. But, they did have independent thinkgroups. Thinkpagans were constituted independently of the Mosaic Tradition. They did not form in order to exploit the Mosaic Tradition. There were no barriers to coming close, or finding features, of thinkdivine. Consequently, many pagans had consciences that came remarkably close to the Scriptural ideal of consciencefree.
This precisely is the intuition behind a little book by Simone Weil, Intimations of Christianity Among the Ancient Greeks, published in the United States in 1958 by Beacon Press.]