Summary of text [comment] page 25<\/p>\n
Sin is a sign of inner conscience and disposition.\u00a0 Signs reveal and veil.\u00a0 If one sees a sinful act, one cannot determine the perpetrator\u2019s inner conscience and dispositions as a permanent, solid, thing.<\/p>\n
[Both sin and virtue are actualities that emerge from conscience and dispositions.\u00a0 Since the conscience is composed of exclusive yet interpellating realms, sometimes it is hard to pin the specification down.<\/p>\n
Well, Schoonenberg\u2019s caution notwithstanding, there comes a time when habitual expression makes the specification clear.\u00a0 The training of the dispositions adds further evidence.\u00a0 Conscience becomes specified as “lacking” freedom or “free”.<\/p>\n
How does this happen?<\/p>\n
At some point, actuality binds the realm of possibility. \u00a0When we habitually engage in sinful or virtuous behaviors, we come to a point where actuality specifies possibility. The \u201clacking\u201d in consciencelacking<\/sup> and the \u201cfree\u201d in consciencefree<\/sup> reflect how we train ourselves.\u00a0 We learn to ignore or hold onto freedom.\u00a0 We habituate our consciences to be “a slave to some concupiscence or cruelty\u201d or to be \u201cfree and virtuous\u201d.<\/p>\n Thus consciencespecified<\/sup> could also be written consciencehabituated<\/sup>.<\/p>\n The limitation of the extent of possibility by repetitive behaviors raises questions that are oddly addressed in the topic that Schoonenberg turned to next: What is the relation between \u201cvenial\u201d and \u201cmortal\u201d sin?]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Summary of text [comment] page 25 Sin is a sign of inner conscience and disposition.\u00a0 Signs reveal and veil.\u00a0 If one sees a sinful act, one cannot determine the perpetrator\u2019s inner conscience and dispositions as a permanent, solid, thing. [Both sin and virtue are actualities that emerge from conscience and dispositions.\u00a0 Since the conscience is […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1165","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-the-science-of-original-sin"],"yoast_head":"\n